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Steadier en route.

Smooth-route preferences, A&E ETAs, hospital diversion layers built in.

A London Ambulance Service emergency ambulance responding along an urban road

Ambulance routing has to optimise for things consumer navigation doesn’t even measure. Smoothness matters: a route with three sharp turns and a roundabout costs you crew time managing a patient who isn’t strapped down. ETAs need to reflect arrival at the right A&E entrance — emergency dock, urgent care, maternity — not just the postcode centroid.

Blue light routing prefers smooth-route options where they exist and surfaces the trade-offs when they don’t, while trusted geospatial data means the ETA reflects the arrival door, not the building footprint.

Hospital diversion overlays are live: when an A&E goes on divert, custom data layers update your route and your control room sees the same picture at the same moment. For patient-transfer journeys, the routing accounts for ride quality — data we collect from accelerometer telemetry across deployed services and bake back into the engine. The result: smoother journeys, more accurate hospital ETAs, and fewer “are we nearly there yet” radio checks from the rear.

Capabilities

Blue Light Routing

Developed alongside emergency crews, our routing algorithms understand what helps first responders get to scene quicker.

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Blue Light Alert®

We can pre-warn nearby drivers that a blue-light vehicle is approaching, so traffic reacts sooner and clears the path for emergency vehicles.

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Trusted data

The geospatial data your control room trusts, on the responder's map.

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Summary

Blue Light Maps provides ambulance routing solutions that prioritize smooth routes and accurate ETAs to the correct hospital entrance. The service includes live hospital diversion overlays and uses accelerometer data to improve ride quality for patient transfers. Developed with emergency crews, it also offers Blue Light Alert® to warn drivers of approaching emergency vehicles.

Key Facts

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Blue Light Routing?

Blue Light Routing is a routing algorithm developed alongside emergency crews that understands what helps first responders get to scene quicker.

What is Blue Light Alert®?

Blue Light Alert® pre-warns nearby drivers that a blue-light vehicle is approaching, so traffic reacts sooner and clears the path for emergency vehicles.

How does the routing handle hospital diversions?

Hospital diversion overlays are live: when an A&E goes on divert, custom data layers update your route and your control room sees the same picture at the same moment.

How does the routing account for ride quality?

For patient-transfer journeys, the routing accounts for ride quality using data collected from accelerometer telemetry across deployed services and baked back into the engine.

Related Entities

Companies
Blue Light Maps, Ordnance Survey
Products
Blue Light Routing, Blue Light Alert®
Locations
NEC Birmingham
Technologies
accelerometer telemetry