A few weeks ago, I wrote a posting about how fleet routing applications could be improved by using “real-world” traffic data, particularly data on the true average speed per hour of vehicles traveling on specific road sections at different times of the day and week. GPS navigation device vendors like TomTom have this data, which routing solutions can now use to create better routes.
Tim Pigden, Managing Director… Continue reading
A few weeks ago, a press release from PostcodeAnywhere caught my attention. The company introduced a new routing solution for private fleets that uses real-world data from tens of thousands of customers driving with TomTom devices in the UK. This is the first routing solution that I am aware of that uses “real-world” average speed data.
Standard routing solutions input data—such as the number of… Continue reading
My colleagues at ARC recently published a report (available to ARC clients only) on electric vehicle technologies. It struck me that some of the information in it would be interesting to truck fleet owners.
According to the ARC report, there are four different types of e-vehicles: hybrid electric vehicle (HEV); plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV); pure electric vehicle (PEV); and fuel cell electric car.
Currently, the only realistic… Continue reading
The New England Roundtable of CSCMP recently organized a tour of Walgreens’ Northeast Distribution Center (DC). What an amazing facility! Because I live in a Boston suburb and the DC is in Connecticut, I used MapQuest to get turn-by-turn directions and it told me that the trip would take just under 2 hours.
I made it to the tour on time, but it involved significant speeding and stress… Continue reading
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Guest Commentary: Addressing the Challenges of Bringing Together Private Fleet and For-Hire Transportation for Improved Operational Results
Traditionally, most private fleet operating businesses have viewed the private fleet as a separately managed entity that was typically focused on outbound distribution. In some cases, the fleet would have static backhauls for inbound goods. For-hire carriers were typically managed by a different team. We are seeing an increasing trend in customer interest in solutions that integrate the planning and execution functions of both private fleet and for-hire carrier operations… Continue reading
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