Nontransporting EMS vehicle

A non-transporting EMS vehicle can help emergency organizations use their resources more efficiently, assessing an incident's severity (especially where there is reason to suspect the injury or illness is not serious) and either treating the patient at the scene and then releasing them or calling in additional help if required.

Golf carts and similar vehicles provide access to grassy areas, amusement parks, and inside large buildings, such as shopping malls.

Fielding multiple non-transporting vehicles may enable the EMS system to increase the number of units it has available to respond without the greater costs (money and personnel) associated with full-sized ambulances.

In the French model of prehospital care, doctors may remain on scene to attempt procedures to stabilise patients prior to transport.

[8] The New York City branch of Hatzalah, a Jewish volunteer EMS program, operates a two-tiered dispatch model where EMTs and paramedics respond to a call in their fully equipped private vehicles acting as fly-cars, while an ambulance is brought for transport if necessary.