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Does anyone know if anything like this, but for emergency vehicle responses? In some cases, routes that are not suitable for a normal car are exceptional quicke
by laurencei 7y ago
Does anyone know if anything like this, but for emergency vehicle responses? In some cases, routes that are not suitable for a normal car are exceptional quicker for an emergency vehicle to use (because perhaps they can do a right turn at an intersection that normal traffic cannot).
There would be restrictions, because you wouldnt want to go down a wrong way street etc, and some "no right turns" have physical reasons etc (such as median strip that would physically prevent you from crossing).
But there would definitely be a market for this to improve response times. In my country at least (Australia); most emergency service vehicles I know of use a standard GPS routing system that does not take this stuff into consideration...
- t0mas88 7y agoYes this exists, I've been in an ambulance that had a navigation system aware of the "illegal" things they could do. It for example automatically took bus lanes as faster routes. Didn't ask them what system it was, had other priorities at the time.
- laurencei 7y agowhich country was this?
- t0mas88 7y agoNetherlands. As far as I know the emergency services here are government run, so I guess they bought this for all of them at once.
- xnyhps 7y agoIn The Netherlands there are Veiligheidsregio's ("Safety regions", areas where the emergency services work together) which make changes to OSM to improve the routing for emergency services. For example, Veiligheidsregio Twente is quite active.
- t0mas88 7y agoSo they've built / bought a custom system based on OSM data?
- punnerud 7y agoIn ArcGIS you can specify emergency vehicle, and can also calculate for distribution of multiple vehicles to multiple targets: https://developers.arcgis.com/labs/arcgisonline/route-multiple-vehicles/ https://developers.arcgis.com/labs/arcgisonline/route-multip... Would love to see a free version of this. The closest I found is Optaplanner: https://docs.optaplanner.org/7.4.1.Final/optaplanner-docs/html_single/#vehicleRouting https://docs.optaplanner.org/7.4.1.Final/optaplanner-docs/ht...
- ge0ffrey 7y agoIn OptaPlanner you can grab the Vehicle Routing web application (called optaweb-vehicle-routing) and add any custom constraints that are specific to your use case such as emergency vehicles: https://www.optaplanner.org/learn/useCases/vehicleRoutingProblem.html https://www.optaplanner.org/learn/useCases/vehicleRoutingPro...
- karussell 7y ago> Would love to see a free version of this See also one of our other projects https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit Please note that this is the chinese postman problem (visit every edge), which is different to the VRP - the vehicle routing problem (visit many nodes). And VRP needs a routing engine to decide about the shortest distances between the nodes (usually with a distance matrix).
- karussell 7y agoGraphHopper is already used for fire trucks and so called "isochrone calculations": https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper#for-analysis https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper#for-analysis