Using Route Appropriate Resource
To calculate the nearest appropriate resources:
- Right-click on the relevant incident icon on the map.
- From the Route Appropriate Resource sub-menu select the option required.
The following options are available.
- Quickest Route. This is calculated for speed, dependant on road restrictions such as one-ways, speed limits and restrictions.
- Quickest Route Emergency. This is also calculated for speed but ignores restrictions unless they are manually defined as Emergency restrictions.
- Shortest Route. This is calculated on distance. Speed is not considered and can therefore use small, slower roads but observes one-way and turning restrictions.
- Shortest Route Emergency. This is also calculated on distance but ignores restrictions unless they are manually defined as Emergency restrictions.
The Exclusion Zone Selection dialog may appear, depending on whether there are any exclusion zones defined in the system. If there are no exclusion zones defined, the routing calculation will start automatically and the next 2 steps will be omitted.
- If the Exclusion Zone Selection Dialog appears, select any zones that should be ignored from the Applied exclusion zones panel on the left and click the Add>> button to move them into the Ignored exclusion zones panel on the right. Any zones remaining in the left panel will affect the routing calculation.
- Click Ok. The dialog is closed and the calculation starts.
When the calculation is finished, the resultant routes will be drawn on the map and a summary will be displayed below the map.
The routes are coloured according to the response time (for Quickest Route) or the distance (for the Shortest Route). Colours are by default defined as:
- Red. Closest (by time or distance) to the incident.
- Orange. Second closest.
- Yellow. Third closest.
- Green. Fourth closest.
- Blue. Fifth closest.
More routes and/or different colours are possible if configured by an administrator.