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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">11 Oct 2019, 11:22 by colin.smale@xs4all.nl:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p>On 2019-10-11 11:09, Snusmumriken wrote:<br></p><blockquote style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0" type="cite"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class=""><div style="16px" text-align="left">It is up to the driver. I think he can ignore most of the traffic laws<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> in the cause of getting as fast and as safe to where he needs to go. So<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> he would use his own judgment and not so much what a routing engine<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> tells him what he can do.<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class="">That may be the case in some countries, but in the UK there are limitations on what laws emergency vehicles can and cannot break.<br></div><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class=""> <br></div><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class="">Countries also have differing definitions of what constitutes an "emergency vehicle" for these purposes. A regular doctor on his way to an emergency, organs for transplant for example... in the UK they cannot use blue lights, and "people die" because these vehicles get stuck in traffic.<br></div><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class=""> <br></div><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class="">See this website for all the complexities:<br></div><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class=""><a href="http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/blue-light-use/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/blue-light-use/</a><br></div><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class=""> <br></div><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class="">The question is, how to model this in OSM? Or do we just model for normal cars? Just like for trucks, routing for emergency vehicles needs parameterisation for the vehicle characteristics and the specific use to which it is being put *at that moment*.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">In this case I would map as done so far.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Split on physical splits etc.</div> </body>
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