Traveling at the Speed of Life

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Travelingat theSpeed of Life

• Decreasing Public Safety Response Times
• with GIS Technology

T. Brian Hood Director, Lexington County EMS
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Lexington County
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Public Safety

• Emergency Medical Services
• Law Enforcement
• Fire Services
• Communications
• Public Works
• Animal Control

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Issues Common to All Aspects of Public Safety

• The Need for Prompt and Reliable Address
  Information

• The Need for Access to Accurate Intel

• The Need for a Timely Response

• The Need to Maximize Services through Appropriate
  Resource Placement

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Prompt and Reliable Address Information

• Un-named Roads and the Directions that Callers
  Give to Find Them

• Rural Routes and Box Numbers

• Duplicate Road Names Within your Jurisdiction

• Road Types and Travel Speeds

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Access to Accurate Intel About the Incident
Location

• Ownership Information

• Parcel Size and Shape

• Number of Buildings on Parcel

• Special Information (pools, fences, gates,
  drives, etc.)

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Roads
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Streams
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Ponds
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Parcels
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Aerials
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10-foot contours
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4-foot contours
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Floodplains
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Wetlands
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Soils
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Zoning
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Timely Response

• The Lack of Routing Information to the Incident

• The Lack of Routing Information From the Incident

• Shortest Route Vs. Fastest Route

• Special Information (Road Construction, Bridge
  Work, etc.)

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Maximizing Service Delivery Through Appropriate
Resource Placement

• Determining Geographical Boundaries

• Opening New Fire Stations, EMS and Law
  Enforcement Substations

• Determining Standby Points

• Working Within A System Status Management
  Environment

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The Days Before GIS In Lexington County

• Map Books

• The Inability to Leverage Existing Intel

• Duplicate Road Names Within Our Jurisdiction

• Longer Response Times

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Life in Lexington County After GIS

• GIS System and Data Available to All Public
  Safety Departments both in the Office and in the
  field

• GIS Paved The Way for Automatic Vehicle Location
  System

• Complete System Status Management Became a
  Reality Through Combining our GIS and AVL Systems

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GIS System
System Status Management
AVL System
GPS System
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The Future Looks Bright

• Continued Refinement of Our Current Software

• Expansion into other Public Safety Divisions

• Continued Integration of the AVL System with the
  Computer Aided Dispatch System

• Pictometry

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Tactical Planning
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Preplan All Responses
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Questions?