Integrated Telematics and Vehicle Routing: Competitive Advantage by Integration

Telematics: Standard Functionality Everyone Offers

Today's telematics systems are primarily used for tracking, communication and control. They enable you to see the location of your staff, the speed of the vehicles, measurements like, e.g., the temperature in the trailer and to communicate with your mobile staff (e.g. exchanging orders or status messages).

Integrated Telematics and Vehicle Routing

Most telematics systems were developed and implemented with the objective of supervision, control and documentation. TransIT extends this approach one step further: In TransIT you'll see both the plan and the actuals at the same time. The system automatically compares the values and identifies deviations. This allows you to react quickly, plan new orders and always take the right decisions. Why? TransIT integrates planning and control. Conventional telematics systems allow you to locate and control your staff or vehicles, but the remaining work has to be done manually. That may be a lot as the following examples indicate:

• Your driver is tuck in a congestion and will probably arrive an hour late at the next customer. What happens with the rest of his daily route? Will he be too late to meet the last two customers in the route? In TransIT you can see this immediately!
  
• A new order has to be executed. With a convetional telematics system you can see which vehicles are close to the location of the order now. But: Does the closest driver have time to integrate the new orde in his route? Who will be close when the time window of the new order allows the execution? The dynamic planning in TransIT will take this into account!
  
• Would you like to match the order times at the customers with the planned times? TransIT does this automatically!
  
• You identify that some routes are always shorter or longe than planned. Should you adapt your speed profile? TransIT analyses the itineraries and supports you during the adjustments.
  

These examples demonstrate how much you can gain from an integrated apporach. Many of the tasks that are extremely cumbersome to do manually can be done with a few mous clicks in TransIT. That's a lot more than conventional systems offer - convince yourself!

One-stop solutions

We offer integrated telematics and routing solutions as one package. You may use convetional mobile phones such as, e.g. products of Nokia or Blackberyy or dedicated hardware. But TransIT also allows you to use third-party solutions from vendors such as, e.g., CSB or Fleetboard.