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Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Erturk Celenk
Ankara Greater Municipality
Milli Mudafaa Caddesi 10/6
Kizilay Ankara
Ankara, 06440
TURKEY
Telephone: 011-90-312-418-1350
Fax: 011-90-312-418-3703
Ahmet Tumay, Ali Fuat Cetin, Server Birkan
CIBSIS, Fire Response and Information System
Defining Issue: Most fires could be less dangerous if fire department vehicles could reach the fire locations as soon as possible and if the fire department crews knew more about the fire locations such as locations of people, fire hydrants, and electricity and gas valves. GIS Solution: Using a network pathfinding algorithm, we can decrease the response time to fires. By means of database management systems, we can collect, store, and manipulate fire location information. Methodology: CIBSIS, Geographical Route Determination and Fire Information System, was developed by the Greater Ankara Municipality Data Processing Department to help the Fire Department of the City achieve rapid responce to trouble and emergency requests. The intelligent and easy-to-use system provides two vital pieces of information to the Fire Department. First, the system immediately produces the optimum route from the Fire Department building to the emergency address at the time of call and helps dispatchers to direct the fire
vehicles in that route. Second, the system gives information regarding the location of the fire. In this way, Fire Department members are well informed about the destination before they arrive. By knowing more about the fire location, they have a chance to make a plan before arriving. The system gives the number of people, their locations, structural information about the buildings, and locations of fire hydrants, and electricity and gas valves. The project started with the determination of the 500 most critical places and continued with additional 500 places after each completion of the previous 500 places. Governmental buildings, commercial and market places, hotels, student dormitories and hospitals are the content of the first 500 important places. The City road network is taken from the Transportation Department of the municipality in the format of TRANPLAN, transportation planning software. Programs and system user interfaces are developed using AML and Avenue. Project development life cycle
will be explained in this paper. Software: The pathfinding application is written using ARC Macro Language (AML) based on workstation ARCINFO, and information related to the fire locations is reached using ArcView. The purpose of the paper is to highlight the application and its functions as well as to review the technical challenges encountered during the development and integration of the different software packages.
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