Automatic vehicle recommendation

The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to automated vehicle recommendation (AVR) for the purpose of CAD. For the purpose of this discussion AVR is defined as computer-assisted determination of a set of vehicles which are best suited to respond to an incident based on their AVL-determined geographic proximity to that incident. It is important to differentiate this from routing, which is the process of finding the nearest vehicle to a location. Routing is not the topic of this discussion as it refers to a specific implementation of AVR where a route and set of driving instructions are generated using the topology of the street network. When driving instructions are not required, Trimble´s AVR approach is much more efficient in a real-time dispatch application than a conventional routing approach