How Emergency Vehicle Priority (EVP) Works and who benefits from it?
With the growing and aging population, demand for emergency services has increased. Combined with increasing traffic congestion, needs have arisen to employ smart technologies to control and improve travel times for emergency services by also keeping other road users safe, in addition to minimizing traffic disturbances. Emergency Vehicle Priority carefully delivers green traffic signals to emergency vehicles to allow their unrestricted passage through controlled intersections. It utilizes computer-aided dispatch, GPS, and traffic management technology to ascertain the location of an emergency vehicle, calculate estimated times of arrival at intersections and send a communication to the traffic control system that an emergency vehicle is coming. The traffic control system gets ready to provide a green signal before the arrival of the vehicle at the required intersection when it is secure to do so. This preparation also includes keeping all other road users and pedestrians safe. E