11 Oct 2019, 11:22 by colin.sm...@xs4all.nl:
>
> On 2019-10-11 11:09, Snusmumriken wrote:
>
>
>> It is up to the driver. I think he can ignore most of the traffic laws
>> in the cause of getting as fast and as safe to where he needs to go. So
>> he would use his own judgment and not so much what a routing engine
>> tells him what he can do.
>>
> That may be the case in some countries, but in the UK there are limitations
> on what laws emergency vehicles can and cannot break.
>
> 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.
>
> See this website for all the complexities:
> http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/blue-light-use/
> <http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/blue-light-use/>
>
> 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*.
>
In this case I would map as done so far.
Split on physical splits etc.
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