Locating Road Emergency Posts and recovery centers by the Use of Arc-GIS Software in Ahvaz–Hamidieh Route

Road accidents are threatening human lives and damaging the national economies. According to 1391 figures in Iran, 62% of road accidents have accrued on the major roads and approximately 60% of fatalities are at accident locations and or on the way to treatment centers and hospitals. Therefore, proper location of road repair centers and medical emergency posts have an effective role in decreasing the fatalities. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the standard time consumed from the time of informing emergency units located in the route until the time of being at the accident site should not exceed more than seven minutes. Although in the recent years (2011-2012) with the new investments on increasing the presence of emergency posts there has been a five minute decrease of time for emergency units to arrive at accident sites, but it continues to be higher than the standard with 12 minutes, little higher than the standard time designated by WHO. Ahvaz-Hamidieh route as one of the major routes in Khuzestan province has experienced extreme traffic increase as the result of vast economic and urban development in the last decade and has changed its status from a main road to a high traffic express way connecting the capital of the province to a new international border with neighbouring country. The study of this route and the analysis of the accidents by software Arc-GIS determine that there are block spots and miss location of EMS posts; presenting the importance of establishment of road repair center and the replacement of the EMS posts, which can provide the 10 minute standard service to the accident calls.

Locating, Arc-GIS, EMS, Ahvaz-Hamidieh, Road repair