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New high-visibility patrol cars for Western Australia Police
WA Police (WAPOL) recently announced the completion of a project to upgrade the markings, warning lights and sirens of not just the Highway Patrol cars, but all vehicles in the fleet. The project team reviewed current best worldwide practice and translated … Continue reading
Conflicting emergency vehicle pattern markings merge to create camouflage effects
Many earlier posts have described the problems associated with affixing a range of different patterned markings (especially rear chevrons) onto emergency vehicles. The problem is made even worse when a number of local agencies independently decide to display different pattern styles to brand their vehicles in an … Continue reading
Portraits of Hope on Aspen emergency vehicles
Every now and again my friend and colleague Howard Paul at EMSAC sends me interesting links or photos from Colorado and these really brought a smile to my face. Portraits of Hope a national non-profit art and social service program founded by brothers Ed Massey … Continue reading
AV is back on the road!
Due to my heavy workload over the last few months the AV blog has endured a forced sabbatical. Although I am still quite busy the blog posts have returned…..
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Three new features coming to the AV Blog
Over the next few days you will see three new icons and categories appearing between the usual blog posts. There are a great number research papers, video clips and successful emergency vehicle marking layouts that deserve to be recognised even though they do not make it into … Continue reading
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Confusing high-visibility conspicuity pattern launched for motorways around Zurich
Earlier this year Leonardo Ferrazzi from Italy sent me this booklet titled Road Safety Inspectorate Signage. It outlines the details of a new conspicuity pattern now being used on the German high-speed motorways around Zurich. The booklet describes how the Canton of Zurich engineering department designed … Continue reading
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The Ambulance Visibility Marking Toolkit for Emergency Vehicles
After presenting at the Colorado 3rd Annual EMS Summit in 2010 I was asked to write several articles for the Colorado EMSAC Star. The first article in the series discussed the Ambulance Visibility ten-point toolkit for applying markings to emergency vehicles. The article should be read … Continue reading
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Off topic – EMS Week and the dark-side FDNY EMS poster
While I am in an off-topic mood, let’s go a bit further and have a look at the latest Fire Department of New York EMS Week poster. The poster for 2012 has produced mixed reviews about the impression it presents of EMS, especially around … Continue reading
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Off-topic – Rare interview with Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong
I tend not to stray far from the conspicuity and visibility topic very often But… if you are one of the baby-boomers like me, you would have lived through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions in the years leading up to … Continue reading
A conference, two papers and retroreflective conspicuity at night.
Conferences are a great opportunity to attend presentations discussing the latest research, to see the newest products and meet with colleagues. At the trade exhibits we are bombarded with sales pitches and a gambit of differing viewpoints. As a matter of course we tend to filter out all the sales talk and seek out the more reliable information … Continue reading
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Announcing the new Ambulance Visibility Reference Library
It has always been exceptionally difficult to find accurate research without spending hours searching the internet. The new Ambulance Visibility Reference Library brings visibility and conspicuity research documents and information together in the one place for the first time. The AV Reference … Continue reading
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Emergency vehicle chevrons – the AV Blog series Part 2
Welcome back to Part 2 of the Chevron Blog. This part will discuss the following topics: Chevrons on current and future vehicle fleets Current fleet markings with chevrons on different vehicle styles Differing expectations of Police, Fire & Ambulance Battenburg and … Continue reading
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Tagged camouflage, conspicuity, FEMA Emergency vehicle visibility and conspicuity study, fire trucks, fluorescent, Markings, pattern, perception, recognition, reflective, safety, stripes, vehicle, visibility
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Welcome to the brand new AV Blog
The Ambulance Visibility Blog will give up-to-date news and information on emergency vehicle visibility and conspicuity as soon as it becomes available. Unlike the news page on the ambulancevisibility.com website this blog will include comments, photos and videos from John Killeen … Continue reading
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