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In the event of a disaster the coordinated response of emergency services is crucial for saving lives and protecting critical infrastructure. Efficient communication and access to relevant information are essential elements in the immediate aftermath and all phases of the crisis management cycle to maintain public safety. As part of the European Commission funded FP7 project EPISECC (Establish Pan-European Information Space to Enhance Security of Citizens), an inventory of past disasters and critical events was developed. Information was obtained by systematic interviews with experts active in the field of crisis and disaster management on both national and international level. They represent organisations such as first responders, emergency services and civil protection offices from 15 EU (European Union) countries. The paper will outline several aspects such as the quality of information exchange between crisis managers and the analysis of key recommendations for improvement identified during the management of past disasters.

In the event of a disaster the coordinated response of emergency services is crucial for saving lives and protecting critical infrastructure. Efficient communication and access to relevant information are essential elements in the immediate aftermath and all phases of the crisis management cycle to maintain public safety. As part of the European Commission funded FP7 project EPISECC (Establish Pan-European Information Space to Enhance Security of Citizens), an inventory of past disasters and critical events was developed. Information was obtained by systematic interviews with experts active in the field of crisis and disaster management on both national and international level. They represent organisations such as first responders, emergency services and civil protection offices from 15 EU (European Union) countries. The paper will outline several aspects such as the quality of information exchange between crisis managers and the analysis of key recommendations for improvement identified during the management of past disasters.

Dear reader, You are holding in your hands a volume of the series „Reports of the DLR-Institute of Transportation Systems“. We are publishing in this series fascinating, scientific topics from the Institute of Transportation Systems of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. - DLR) and from his environment. We are providing libraries with a part of the circulation. Outstanding scientific contributions and dissertations are here published as well as projects reports and proceedings of conferences in our house with different contributors from science, economy and politics. With this series we are pursuing the objective to enable a broad access to scientific works and results. We are using the series as well as to promote practically young researchers by the publication of the dissertation of our staff and external doctoral candidates, too. Publications are important milestones on the academic career path. With the series „Reports of the DLR-Institute of Transportation Systems / Berichte aus dem DLR-Institut für Verkehrssystem-technik“we are widening the spectrum of possible publications with a bulding block. Beyond that we understand the communication of our scientific fields of research as a contribution to the national and international research landscape in the fiels of automotive, railway systems and traffic management. This volume contains the proceedings of the 1st SUMO User Conference (SUMO2013), which was held from 15th to 17th May 2013 in Berlin-Adlershof, Germany. SUMO is a well established microscopic traffic simulation suite which has been available since 2001 and provides a wide range of traffic planning and simulation tools. The conference proceedings give a good overview of the applicability and usefulness of simulation tools like SUMO ranging from new methods in traffic control and vehicular communication to the simulation of complete cities. Another aspect of the tool suite, its universal extensibility due to the availability of source code, is reflected in contributions covering parallelization and workflow improvements to govern microscopic traffic simulation results. Several articles give short outlines of the general workflow when setting up a simulation with SUMO as well as an overview about the available tools for net and demand generation and for the evaluation of the results. Further features, include the simulation of private and public transport modes, person-based trip chains as well as the extension for the implementation of new behavioral models or remote control of the simulation using various programming environments. The conference’s aim was bringing together the large international user community and exchanging experience in using SUMO, while presenting results or solutions obtained using the software. This collection should inspire you to try your next project with the SUMO suite as well or to find new applications in your existing environment. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karsten Lemmer

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OIS is a new Optical Information System for road traffic observation and management. The complete system architecture from the sensor for automatic traffic detection up to the treffic light management for a wide area is designed under the requirements of an intelligent transportation system. Particular features of this system are the vision sensors with integrated computational and real-time capabilities, real-time algorithms for image processing and a new approach for dynamic traffic light management for a single intersection as well as for a wide area. The developed real-time algorithms for image processing extract traffic data even at night and under bad weather conditions. This approach opens the opportunity to identify and specify each traffic objects, its location, its speed and other important object information. Furthermore the algorithms are able to identify accidents and non-motorized traffic like pedestrians and bicyclists. Combining all these single information the system creates new derivate and consolidated information. This leads to a new and more complete view on the traffic situation of an intersection. Only by this a dynamic and real-time traffic light management is possible. to optimize a wide area traffic management it is neccessary to improve the modelling and forecasting of traffic flow. Therefore the information of the current Origin-Destination (OD) flow is essentially. Taking this into account OIS also includes an approach for anonymous vehicle recognition. This approach is based on single object characteristics. order of objects and forecast information. which will be obtained from intersection to intersection.