Nearest ambulance to each accident
Every accident in your city matched to the nearest of your ambulances, every hour.
What it does
Every hour: find accidents and road closures in your city, match each one to the nearest of your ambulances (from your CSV), email the list and map them.
In one sentence: Every hour at :00, in Chicago, find road closures and other incidents, find the nearest of your points, then email the list to you and show them on a map.
Why it is useful
Dispatchers lose minutes working out which unit is closest. This flow does it for every incident as soon as it shows up.
Who it is for
Government & smart cities. Municipalities, agencies and city teams planning services and keeping residents safe and informed. Every use case for government & cities
Best use cases
- An ambulance service covering a city
- A roadside assistance company
- A private security patrol
What each run gives you
- A dispatch list by email
- A map of incidents and units
The time it saves
Every hour at :00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 2 minutes each time; it runs about 720 times a month, so it saves about 24 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every hourTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Accidents and closuresxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- Nearest ambulanceWhere · Find nearestFor each place, finds the nearest of your own points from a CSV you upload, for example the nearest ambulance to each accident or the nearest branch to each new lead, and adds its name and the distance.
- Email the dispatch listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
- Accidents and ambulancesAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Traffic incidents and road closures: Closures and roadworks in an area or near each of your places.
- Find the nearest of your own sites: Match each result to its closest branch, depot or vehicle.
- The map: everything your AI employees found: Results, Map: every result as layers on one map, with filters, a time slider, a card for each result and Compare sites.
- How to monitor road closures near your sites: Every few minutes, the incidents that affect your sites or fleet.
- Reverse geocoding: Turning coordinates into a street, district or address.
More for Government & smart cities
- Weekly city safety report: A weekly city safety report: incidents, people affected, hotspots investigated, actions.
- Neighbourhoods far from a hospital: Neighbourhoods with no hospital within 5 km, most populated first.
- Children per school, block by block: Children per school in every block of the city, the most crowded first.
- Incidents and the people they affect: Road incidents and how many people live around each, every morning.
- New roadworks and the residents affected: New roadworks this week and the residents affected.
- New businesses in the municipality: New businesses in the municipality by kind, every month.