Make room for the ambulance

Researchers from Cornell University are trying to create a computer program for ambulances to travel through a city easier.

The program would estimate how to best spread ambulances across a city to get maximum coverage.

Associate Professor of Operations Research at Cornell University-- Shane Henderson says ambulances do a good job but there is room for improvement.

Henderson says many ambulance organizations are already working hard to know the real time status of ambulances by installing a G-P-S unit in every ambulance.

Henderson is suggesting that they use better algorithms and computer programs to figure out what the good locations should be for a given situation, so where are the best places to send those ambulances when they are available.

The researchers are basing their data off of historical trends of calls, geographic layout, and real-time locations of ambulances.

Using the program, ambulances will no longer wait to be called onto a scene.

The researchers say there is still a lot more work to be done but are optimistic about the future of ambulance transportation.