Emergency Routing Services project
Rachel Schaus is a recent Laurier Honours BA graduate in Geography with Geomatics option who has been working on a really cool initiative called the Emergency Routing Services project.
With a collaborative team at Fleming College, Rachel has assisted to create a customized Laurier campus digital basemap that helps first responders (police, fire, ambulance) get to emergency scenes on campus more quickly. The Laurier Special Constables are able to use the custom mapping application to view building layouts and floor plans on mobile tablets, and to track incident locations and identify patterns.
~ Above: “In the group photo of Rachel and the team, Rachel is the on the right with the grey sweater and long blonde hair. The photo also includes other important members on the team: Pam Schaus, the departmental cartographer (most left) and Dr. Mary-Louise Byrne (second left) from the department, as well as Johanna Romero from Physical Resources (in orange to the right of Dr. Byrne)”
~Above: “ The map was generated by the new application that the team developed. It shows the fastest route for emergency responders to get to an incident on the second floor of the Arts Building”.
Rachel's work helps to make Laurier an even safer place to work and study. Great job, Rachel!