A simulation framework for emergency response of highway traffic accident. Paper presented at the 2012 International Workshop on Information and Electronics Engineering.

The problem of road traffic accidents is now becoming a cause for concern. This paper presents a simulation framework designed to simulate an emergency response system for highway traffic accident. It is a conceptual design of a real-time emergency response system. The major modules of this simulation framework include Accident Generation, Traffic Generation and Accident Response. The key component of this simulation framework is the dispatch strategy. These include the First Called, First Served strategy, the nearest origin dispatch strategy, and the flexible dispatch strategy. (Author/publisher)