Methodology for creating dynamic emergency vehicle availability maps

Abstract

One of the main priorities of emergency services is to minimize the response time to calls. In the process of proper allocation of emergency vehicles, maps of emergency vehicle accessibility are found to be helpful. These maps represent areas within which emergency services can reach the specified location within a certain time. Calculating travel times requires taking into account the rapidly changing current road conditions. This paper presents a method for dynamically generating maps of emergency vehicle accessibility, considering network models and irregular computational grids.

Keywords

• accessibility
• service coverage maps
• ambulance-coverage-ratio
• ambulance
• fastest paths
• gis
• big data