Review on Emergency Traffic Control in Urban Area with Probe Data

Emergency traffic control is an important approach to improve ability of emergency response in urban area. After analyzing development of its objective evolution, control strategy and simulation model, we pointed out disadvantages of current research, and found out that the control scale is now extending from isolated intersection to the route of emergency rescue traffic, control objectives from travel time to potential safety problems, impact to other traffic, and etc., and about its simulation, traditional simulation software based development and special application oriented multi-agent model are two main methods. Finally, future research should focus on multi-objective active control modeling of emergency traffic with probe data, and key issues in it are quick identification of characteristics and fusing of probe data, and its impact on benefit improvement of traffic control strategy.