- A competitor to Emergency Preemption Systems, Incorporated is Path Master Incorporated (pathmasterinc.com), they manufacturer and distribute an emergency traffic management system that is in many ways similar to that of Emergency Preemption Systems, Incorporated. That is to that they both employ the use of recognizable waveforms generated by a siren.
Vehicle Location Systems – Utilizes a technology known as Global Positioning Satellite (GPS). The technology was originally developed for use by the military and consists of a network of 24 satellites orbiting 12,000 miles above the earth.
- HGI Wireless Incorporated (http://www.hgiwireless.com/index.html) has developed a sophisticated and vehicle-based GPS tracking system. They have proudly named their system HGI Stinger, while the Stinger products shares some similar technologies, its’ purpose is to locate stolen vehicles.
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Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) is an enhanced technology application that gathers data relevant to arrival time, departure time, and the number of passengers. The Center for Urban Transportation Research has developed this application to evaluate and improve public transportation for the State of Florida (Pietrzyk, 2001).
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Lojack, the only stolen vehicle recovery system operated by the police. It's a small transmitter hidden in your car that allows the police to track and recover it. Because of its technology and the police, LoJack is the most effective and only proven stolen vehicle recovery system on the market. Statistics states that approximately 90% of stolen vehicles that have LoJack are recovered. In addition, LoJack is currently available to 65% of the U.S. population.
3. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
However, if you would take a moment to reflect back to the previous paragraph “Examples of Existing Technology” you will notice that all of the emergency traffic management systems employ directional waveform methods to invoke a priority green light.
- GOOD – Any of the existing traffic management systems are not costly to implement, because each systems stands alone. That is to say that all of the equipment is located at the traffic light and is not reliant upon another system. This also means that a community has the flexibility of buying one system or 100. Which is extremely beneficial for small community and cost effective.
- BAD – Ironically, what is beneficial for a small community is bad for large community. Why? The fact that each unit stands alone is a drain on maintenance and would be costly for a large community.
- UGLY – The system is not adaptive and does not take into account traffic flow.
Now let us take a moment to examine the vehicle locating systems, you will notice that they employ GPS technology. A GPS system is excellent for tracking a vehicle, but it is not employed in any emergency traffic management system that we could find.
4. OUR CONCEPT
We can do better!!! Our concept is to create an Global Autonomous Traffic Emergency System (GATES) that will seize the benefits of GPS and
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