Data Drives Down Nashville's Emergency Response Times

MetroLab Network has partnered with Government Technology to bring its readers a segment called the MetroLab Innovation of the Month Series, which highlights impactful tech, data, and innovation projects underway between cities and universities. If you'd like to learn more or contact the project leads, please contact MetroLab at info@metrolabnetwork.org for more information. In this month's installment of the Innovation of the Month series, we explore how the Vanderbilt Initiative for Smart Cities Operation and Research has been working on emergency response with the Nashville Fire Department and the Information Technology Services Department for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. MetroLab's Ben Levine and Stefania Di Mauro-Nava spoke with Abhishek Dubey, senior research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems and an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Vanderbilt University; Geoffrey Pettet, graduate research assistant at Vanderbilt University; Colleen Herndon, project manager at the Metro Information Technology Services Department for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County; and Ayan Mukhopadhyay, graduate research assistant at Vanderbilt University to learn more. Stefania Di Mauro-Nava: Could you please describe what the Integrated Safety Incident Forecasting and Analysis project is?