Trends in Traffic Accidents of Firefighting Vehicles and Their Evaluation [PDF]
Communications, 2023 The Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic is a security force whose primary task is to protect the lives and health of the population from fire and other emergency and critical situations. Members of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic need
Ladislav Jánošík +4 more
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Rescue and Firefighting Operations During Incidents Involving Vehicles with Alternative Propulsion. Electric Vehicles [PDF]
Safety & Fire Technology, 2022 Aim: The aim of the article is to review information about motor vehicles that use alternative propulsion systems (in this case, electric propulsion) and the risks associated with their use.
Jacek Zboina +4 more
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Transactions of the VŠB: Technical University of Ostrava, Safety Engineering Series, 2023 The paper briefly informs about content, procedures, and objectives of a study of driving dynamics of selected Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (hereinafter ARFF) vehicles that have been used in practice to ensure fire safety at the Leoš Janáček Ostrava ...
Ladislav JÁNOŠÍK +2 more
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Rescue and Firefighting Operations During Incidents Involving Alternatively Powered Vehicles. Gas Propulsion [PDF]
Safety & Fire Technology, 2023 Aim: The purpose of this article is to present the most important information and conclusions about gas-powered motor vehicles and the associated risks during fires and local emergencies.
Jan Kielin +4 more
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QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF THE SKILLS OF WATER TENDER DRIVERS AT THE FIRE RESCUE SERVICE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC [PDF]
Transactions of the VŠB: Technical University of Ostrava, Safety Engineering Series, 2019 The paper summarizes results of the study aimed to evaluate the change of firefighters-engineers’ driving skills after attending the one-day training course. The research focused at drivers of firefighting water tenders.
Ladislav JÁNOŠÍK +3 more
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Driving Dynamics Study in Firefighting Vehicles Drivers Training on a Training Polygon
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2022 The article deals with studying the driving dynamics of firefighting vehicles and their testing on the training polygon Automotodrom Brno. It is focused on the issue of braking and driving in a circle and on the subsequent evaluation of longitudinal and ...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildland Fires: Sensing, Perception, Cooperation and Assistance
Drones, 2021 Wildfires represent a significant natural risk causing economic losses, human death and environmental damage. In recent years, the world has seen an increase in fire intensity and frequency.
Moulay A. Akhloufi +2 more
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Enhanced QoS Routing Protocol for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle, Based on the ACO Approach [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Improving models for managing the networks of firefighting unmanned ground vehicles in crowded areas, as a recommendation system (RS), represented a difficult challenge. This challenge comes from the peculiarities of these types of networks.
Ali M. Ali +3 more
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Firefighting Vehicles Braking Distance Metering [PDF]
Communications, 2019 The paper topic is concerned with the issue of braking dynamics and adhesion coefficients of firefighting vehicles at fire rescue units. The real breaking distances at firefighting vehicles of the water tenders type are presented in the paper.
Izabela Sudrychova +4 more
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A task level fusion autonomous switching mechanism. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Positioning technology is an important component of environmental perception. It is also the basis for autonomous decision-making and motion control of firefighting robots.
Bingyu Lv, Xianchang Wang, Rui Zhang
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