V2X Based Emergency Corridor for Safe and Fast Passage of Emergency Vehicle

In today's world, traffic jams are major concerns for emergency vehicles like Ambulances, Police cars and Fire Brigade trucks which get stuck in traffic and unable to reach their destinations in time, resulting in a possible loss of human lives. A better control over the transportation system can be achieved through the V2X based smart transportation. To deal with such emergency situations, this dissertation proposes a framework for automatic “Emergency Corridor” creation for speedy clearance of emergency vehicles. The traffic signal controller dynamically suspends the routine movement of traffic flow to provide the green phase to the approach containing the emergency vehicle using V2I communication while V2V communication makes the vehicles in the front to make way for the emergency vehicle. The work is simulated in the VEINS framework i.e. combination of SUMO and OMNeT++. We have compared the end to end travel time of Emergency vehicle with and without the proposed algorithm in two different traffic demand situations.