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Quick Route is a navigational app that allows first responders

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to get to the emergency scene as quickly as possible.

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Because in these types of situations every second counts.

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It takes into account some of the things that first responders have to worry about

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like whether we can drive faster than the speed limit

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or wrong ways down one way streets or

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whether there are special hazards that we have like weight limitations on bridges.

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It sounds very simple to go from point A to Point B.

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but there are many factors that impact first responders route

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Time of day, weather conditions, traffic conditions, roadwork projects, flooding or snow

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and also accidents that other agencies might report.

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The Science and Technology Directorate became involved in a quick route project

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because first responders identified a need for a navigational app

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to allow them to maneuver to emergency scenarios

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outside of your traditional mapping applications.

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There have been numerous occasions where I've found a road suddenly stopped

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or was impacted by a road project or during weather conditions.

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Things change at a moment's notice.

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QuickRoute would help with those unexpected conditions.

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By aggregating all that information and those different data sources

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and have it readily available for our route selection.

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There's multiple lower routes, I mean obviously the quicker that we can get somewhere

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the better off it is for everybody.

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I think the value of the Science and Technology Directorate

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putting technology into the hands of first responders

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at really at the leading edge of development cannot be measured.

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I mean it's tremendously valuable not only in terms of the efficiency in which we do our jobs

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but perhaps even most importantly the safety in which we do our jobs.