Every Second Counts: A Comprehensive Review of Route Optimization and Priority Control for Urban Emergency Vehicles
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThis paper systematically reviews the studies on EV routing and priority control. While I have enjoyed reading this paper, the following comments should be nevertheless taken into account if a revision will be granted.
1. In section 3. EV-TTP Methods and section 4. EV-RO Algorithms, author can also provide a framework as Fig.5 to help readers undestand the EV-TTP an EV-RO better.
2. The texts in Fig.4 are unclear.
3. The references are not sufficient in Section 6, more relevant literatures should be reviewed.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe manuscript provides a review of priority scheduling control and path optimization for urban emergency vehicles through literature analysis, and I believe that the manuscript is inadequate as a review, and my comments are as follows.
(1) I believe that the unique scientific issues of emergency vehicles should be highlighted.
(2) The approach to emergency vehicles and electric vehicles is not differentiated in the manuscript, and many concepts are mixed.
(3) The analyses of the various methods do not adequately take into account the special application scenarios in the corresponding references.
(4) The analysis of potential future research directions in the manuscript should be more in-depth.
(5) Suggested means and research directions should be given for some deficiencies by way of reference comparison.
(6) The types and modes of emergency vehicles should be categorized and the corresponding optimization methods should be described respectively.
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Reviewer 3 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThis article presents a comprehensive review of research on EV pathways and priority control, while also proposing future research recommendations from five distinct perspectives. The study exhibits an engaging and logically rigorous approach, making it suitable for publication with appropriate modifications.
1. This international journal necessitates more comprehensive expressions to align with academic standards. For instance, Figure 1 may exhibit inconsistent telephone number formats across different countries.
2. it is currently 2024, the author conducted a search for the article prior to January 2023, indicating the need to repeat the search in 2023 and incorporate relevant content accordingly.
3. The inclusion of Section 2.1 may not be deemed essential; it is advisable to reconsider its necessity.
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Reviewer 4 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe paper provides a systematic and comprehensive review of studies investigating emergency vehicle routing and priority control strategies.
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Many other papers have been done such a review, so this paper is redundant. Two examples are listed herein below:
1. Lakshmi, A. V., Sekhar, P. C., Joseph, K. S., & Priya, A. S. (2023, July). Check for updates A Systematic Review of Route Optimization for Ambulance Routing Problem. In Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Data Science (ICBDS 2022) (Vol. 58, p. 294). Springer Nature.
2. Humagain, S., Sinha, R., Lai, E., & Ranjitkar, P. (2020). A systematic review of route optimisation and pre-emption methods for emergency vehicles. Transport reviews, 40(1), 35-53.
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Reviewer 5 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsIn the inroduction section I would add some other references about this aspect. There are at least three relevant studies on this topic:
-Ghosal, S., & Chatterjee, T. (2020). Controlling Emergency Vehicles During Road Congestion—A Survey and Solution. In Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition: Proceedings of CIPR 2020 (pp. 529-538). Springer Singapore.
-Ranieri, V., Berloco, N., Coropulis, S., Garofalo, G., Intini, P., & Ottomanelli, M. (2023). Methods for infrastructure planning in areas close to hospitals at the regional level. Eur. Transp.\Trasporti Europei, 91(9), 1-11.
In the introduction section, the novelty of this study compared to the xisting research must be stated in a clearer way.
I appreciate Figure 2, it is clear and summarize several aspects.
All the abbreviations must be explicited the first time they are introduced.
L. 106-109: must be re-written. Too personal this sentence.
Improve the readability of Table 1. I suggest to rearrange it, better organizing the strings.
Avoid the use of brackets for the authors in Tables 3 and 4. Use them just for the year and the square brackets for the number of reference. Moreover, these two table scould be improved, trying to use some abbreviations, previouslyexplicited or explicited in the note of the table (like RT for response time; L for road lenght, and so forth). Too much text in the table is not comfortable for the readers.
Figure 5 must be more readable.
Chapter 6 can be better organized. The name of the chapter is "Potential Directions for Future Research", however, it seems that just the limitations are addressed. You can strengthen your chapter by making for each of the gaps one sentence for the limitation and one for the future improvements. In this way the context of the chapter might be preserved and might be clearer to the reader.
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Round 2
Reviewer 4 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe authors made a decent effort and the paper is certainly publishable so I would recommend accepting the paper.
