In a release on Tuesday, April 4, the European Emergency Number Association announced a data-sharing partnership with Waze in which they’ll test a pilot project for emergency response at four locations around Europe. The project will test three potential applications:
- when Waze users input an incident such as a traffic accident into the system, emergency responders will also receive that data and information;
- emergency services can then inform users about where incidents have occurred in real time; and
- emergency vehicles can navigate via Waze to avoid traffic and improve response times.