Patent ID: 7395151

Claim:
A computer system for establishing and managing routes for emergency vehicles having a server computer with an attached storage medium, comprising: the attached storage medium having: 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, a routes database for storing routes designed using the information useful in establishing and managing routes, wherein the routes database includes a pre-planned routes database having route data objects that represent pre-planned routes between at-risk sites and responder sites; one or more modules operable to cause the computer 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, modifying a route in the routes database thereby producing a selected route for a response unit; a unit tracker operable to receive information indicative of location of a response unit; to receive information indicative of current conditions along the selected route; and to cause information indicative of the current conditions along the selected route to be transmitted to the responder unit.