Change Your Approach to Fleet Management, Meet Sustainability Goals
Cities that implement route optimization and waste management technologies will realize operational efficiencies and improvements that contribute to positive environmental outcomes, including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, and improvements in waste diversion rates. Cities implement route optimization technologies to create more efficient routes and turn-by-turn navigation, thereby making fleets more efficient in terms of route time, stops, tonnage and mileage. Cities simply dispatch their routes for trash pickup, recycling, or street sweeping and drivers can easily follow in-cab directions, whether their first day on the job or a veteran driver. Back at the office, supervisors can click and drag stops to ensure they are in the most efficient order, or they can use the sequencing tool to automatically generate efficient routes for a growing neighborhood. These operational efficiencies reduce miles traveled, shorten route completion times, minimize route overlap, and reduce idling time, which directly translates to decreased fuel consumption. This reduction in fuel usage significantly impacts the greenhouse gas emissions of cities. In addition to sustainability benefits, route optimization also helps to keep cities clean in a more equitable way, because fleets can reach every area of the city efficiently and transparently. Additionally, route optimization equally distributes workloads throughout the week so that the drivers have even and fair work days.
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Routeware SmartCity released a native turn-by-turn navigation app. Features include points of interest like gas stations to help drivers orient by landmarks. A skip feature allows drivers to navigate around closed streets. A route simulation feature allows the driver to preview their entire route. The algorithm has been re-vamped to deliver the best possible recommended path.”
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