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About
Wireless E9-1-1
Recommendations Case Studies |
Life can
depend on navigable roads. Crashes
kill more than 41,000 Americans every year—roughly 115 a day, or one every
13 minutes. In these and other emergencies, lives depend on how fast rescuers
reach the scene. The ITS Public Safety Program is working to improve emergency
services through:
Traffic back-ups cost time
and money, too. The ITS Public Safety Program encourages transportation and public safety agencies to better integrate their on-scene incident response, clearance and recovery operations. The Program fosters new partnerships between transportation and public safety agencies to develop more interoperable communications systems and incident management procedures. These operations partnerships will serve the public every day by relieving traffic delay, while improving community preparedness should a major disaster strike. |
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Intelligent
Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (HOIT)
"When
someone makes a call to 9-1-1, they
expect to get help right away. We cannot, and will not, accept a system
where these callers cannot be located..." Norman Y. Mineta,
Secretary of Transportation.