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A route through Visby calculated in Yggio, bending around a closed street

Rescue services, Gotland: AI agents that route the fire engine around closed roads

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Customer: The rescue services on Gotland
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Background

On Gotland the distances are long and the road network is thin. A detour discovered at the barrier is expensive exactly when time is scarce, and a fire engine cannot always turn round in a narrow street in Visby.

The information usually exists. Planned road works are approved weeks ahead and announced by email as a traffic arrangement plan: free text, a table or a PDF, in no standard format. Events such as Almedalsveckan and festivals close whole areas, seasonal outdoor seating narrows streets, and accidents close the usual routes without warning. What was missing was a way to get that knowledge into the route before the vehicle leaves the station.

The requirements were clear: standard Yggio as the base; the fastest route past both planned and unplanned blockages; vehicles of different sizes, entitled to drive against one-way streets; and the route available over open APIs, so the existing blue-light systems can use it.

A table in Yggio listing current and upcoming road works, with dates and whether emergency vehicles may pass

Agent one: reading the road-works plans

Nothing changes for the people who announce the works. They keep sending the same email to the same address. Yggio’s Road Maintenance connector watches that mailbox, accepts mail only from the contractors and case handlers on its allowed list, and hands each message to an AI agent that reads it (PDF, table or text) and returns the details as structured data: the road, the location, the start and end time, and whether emergency vehicles may pass.

Two safeguards matter, because this can close a road. Only allowed senders are processed, so an arbitrary email cannot block a street. And the language model reads, it does not decide: it extracts details from a plan a person already wrote and a process already approved. Emergency access defaults to no, and is only set to yes on stated grounds.

Each closure becomes a roadblock in Yggio, with a time range, so it applies while the works are live and stops applying afterwards, without anyone having to remember to remove it. How the connector and the parser agent are set up.

Vehicle counts from a traffic sensor over a month in Yggio, the normal daily pattern an anomaly is measured against

Agent two: the blockage nobody announced

Not every blockage is planned. A vehicle blocks a lane, an accident closes a street, a delivery stands where it should not. Traffic sensors on the road see it as an anomaly: counts collapse, or speeds drop to nothing.

Yggio turns that pattern into a roadblock candidate, with the road name, the location and a geofence, so an obstruction nobody reported still reaches the routing. Operators can also block a road or an area by hand, in the map.

Yggio navigation for a rescue vehicle: a route around two blocked areas, with car or truck and one-way override options

Routing around it

Every route Yggio calculates has the active roadblocks already applied, so it goes around a closure instead of ending at it. The route depends on the vehicle (a truck is kept to roads that can carry it), and an emergency vehicle may take a one-way street the wrong way, which often decides whether a detour is short or long.

The complete route, with every coordinate and the turn instructions, is returned over Yggio’s open API. That is how a dispatch tool or the blue-light systems use it directly, rather than reading it off a map. Road Obstructions in Sensative Docs.

The Yggio map with blocked roads and a temporary blocked area drawn as geofences (demo environment)

The result

The AI-based navigation is finished and part of standard Yggio, delivered as a cloud service. A municipality or a rescue service gets started with three things: Yggio, a mailbox that the senders of road-works plans copy in, and a requirement on its own suppliers to fetch the routes over the API.

The same closures help far beyond the fire engine. The postal van, the home-care visit, the waste truck and the service car all meet the same barriers every day the works last, and all of them can be routed past them.

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