Blue-light-aware routing
Routes are chosen for emergency-response speeds, not normal traffic — favouring motorways and main roads where blue lights gain most, accounting for speed humps, and allowing the access exceptions emergency vehicles have.
For air ambulance rapid-response cars
Navigation that knows it's a blue‑light run.
Routing built for emergency response, not the school run: it favours the roads that are fastest on blue lights, warns about level crossings and weather, and logs every journey against its estimate — so your service finally has the drive-time evidence it needs.
Designed with a serving HEMS clinician. Decision support — the crew always decides.
What it does
Built for how crews actually drive
Level-crossing intelligence
Crossings on the route are flagged at planning time with the line, barrier type and timetabled trains for that hour — and a crossing-free alternative is offered when one exists.
Made for the navigator
Clear turn-by-turn for the crew member operating the device, roundabout exits as clock positions, and one search box for postcodes, OS grid references and addresses — what3words coming soon.
Weather that matters on the road
Recent rainfall for grip and spray, and visibility and cloud base from the nearest airfield's aviation report — factored into the estimate, summarised at a glance.
Every run, measured
A single Start/Stop logs each journey against its estimate, with the weather at the time. Outliers get a two-tap reason, so the model learns why — not just that — a run was slow.
Safe-driving governance
Fleet-wide trends in speed and journey time for trustees and safety leads — anonymised, pooled and released with a delay, so no figure can be traced to a person or a drive.
How it works
From call to kerbside
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Enter the location
Postcode, grid reference or address — one box works out which. Near a motorway? It asks which carriageway.
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Choose the route
See the blue-light estimate for each option, level crossings and the road mix — then tap the route on the map, as you would in any sat-nav.
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Drive, then learn
Runs are saved on the device and upload when there's signal, building the evidence to calibrate estimates against what your crews actually achieve.
Safety first
Decision support, by design
999mode never selects, enforces or blocks a route. Deviating from the suggestion is normal in blue-light driving, so the app never raises alarms when the crew takes a different road — their judgement always comes first.
- Clinical risk management being developed in line with DCB0129, with a maintained hazard log
- Directionality is never relaxed — no wrong-way routing down one-way streets
- Every location type shown with its nearest place before driving, to catch typos
- Login-protected, with governance data anonymised and released with a delay
Founding partners
We're working with a small number of air ambulance charities to shape the product. If you run rapid-response cars and want faster, safer, measurable blue-light journeys, we'd like to hear from you.