Research Article

Refined Path Planning for Emergency Rescue Vehicles on Congested Urban Arterial Roads via Reinforcement Learning Approach

Table 3

Three typical schemes for emergency vehicle route planning on East Youyi Road.

SchemeTraffic control schemesDriving trajectory

Scheme 1 (RMSC + PERDQN)Traffic control at L2, L3, and L4: emergency vehicles driving in reverse in the opposite lane of the accident siteCase 1: P16-P24-P23-P22-P21-P20-P19-P18-P17-P9-P10
Case 2: P16-P24-P23-P22-P21-P20-P12-P13-P14

Scheme 2 (RMC + PERDQN)Traffic control at L2 and L3: emergency vehicles driving in reverse in the opposite lane of the accident siteCase 1: P16-P24-P23-P22-P21-P20-P19-P18-P17-P9-P10
Case 2: P16-P24-P23-P22-P21-P20-P12-P13-P14

Scheme 3 (PMC + PERDQN)Traffic control at L2: no traffic control at opposite lane of traffic accidentCase 1: P16-P8-P7-P6-P5-P4-P3-P2-P10
Case 2: P16-P8-P7-P6-P14

Scheme 4 (PMSC + PERDQN)Traffic control at L1 and L2: no traffic control at opposite lane of traffic accidentCase 1: P16-P8-P7-P6-P5-P4-P3-P2-P10
Case 2: P16-P8-P7-P6-P14

SP methodTraffic control at L2: no traffic control at opposite lane of traffic accidentCase 1: P16-P15-P14-P13-P12-P11-P10
Case 2: P16-P15-P14