System and method for knowledge-based emergency response
First Claim
1. A knowledge-based system for establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles, comprising:
- a knowledge base having;
information useful in establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles having information on intersections, road segments connecting intersections, expected travel time along the road segments, and dynamic factors that influence traffic flow, and a routes database for storing routes designed using the information useful in establishing and managing routes; and
one or more modules operable to retrieve information from the knowledge base and to perform an operation selected from designing one or more routes between a first location and a second location, selecting a route from the routes database, and modifying a route in the routes database.
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Abstract
A knowledge-based system and method for establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles. The knowledge-based system and method uses a knowledge base having information useful in establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles including information on intersections, road segments connecting intersections, expected travel time along the road segments, and dynamic factors that influence traffic flow, and a database for storing routes designed using the information useful in establishing and managing routes. The knowledge-based system also consist of one or more software modules operable to retrieve information from the knowledge base and to perform operations such as designing routes between location involved in emergency response, selecting between such routes, and modifying such routes all using information in the knowledge base.
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43 Claims
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1. A knowledge-based system for establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles, comprising:
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a knowledge base having;
information useful in establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles having information on intersections, road segments connecting intersections, expected travel time along the road segments, and dynamic factors that influence traffic flow, and a routes database for storing routes designed using the information useful in establishing and managing routes; and
one or more modules operable to retrieve information from the knowledge base and to perform an operation selected from designing one or more routes between a first location and a second location, selecting a route from the routes database, and modifying a route in the routes database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A data processing system for establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles, comprising:
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an augmented road grid database having information describing a road network;
a pre-planned route database containing pre-planned routes between at least one at-risk location and one responder site;
a route planner comprising;
logic to access the augmented road grid database;
logic to compute potential routes between at least one at-risk location and one responder site;
a user interface operable to enable the selection of designated potential routes for storage in the pre-planned route database; and
logic to store selected potential routes in the pre-planned route database. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A knowledge-based method for establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles, comprising:
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pre-planning routes between a set of potential incident locations and a set of remote locations, wherein in the event of an incident an emergency vehicle would be required to travel between at least one potential incident location and at least one remote location, wherein the planning step queries a knowledge base having information useful in establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles including;
a road grid database containing information on intersections, road segments connecting intersections, expected travel time along the road segments, and dynamic factors that influence traffic flow; and
storing the pre-planned routes in a database for pre-planned routes. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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