Manage Mobile Assets More Efficiently to Better Serve CustomersIn a challenging economy, managing a fleet efficiently is more important than ever to reduce costs and improve fleet utilization. Microsoft Virtual Earth helps reduce operating costs and fuel expenses for transportation companies, other businesses with mobile assets, and public sector organizations. The platform supports software solutions for tracking, monitoring, and maintaining fleets and mobile workforces.
Wackenhut
Using Virtual Earth, security services provider Wackenhut developed an integrated fleet management solution to provide verification that security officers are staying within predefined boundaries and patrolling properties as required. The solution helps the company’s clients improve security, enabling Wackenhut to increase customer retention and win new business.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
J.B. Hunt drivers needed to find reliable repair facilities, but wait times for road-service operators were long. To eliminate repair rework and increase efficiency, J.B. Hunt integrated Microsoft Virtual Earth with internal data, so operators can sort and filter auto-generated vendor lists, ranked by location and quality of service.
United Biscuits
United Biscuits, a leading European manufacturer of biscuits and snacks, operates a fleet that transports goods from 11 factories. The company implemented a fleet-tracking solution based on Microsoft Virtual Earth, so now employees can locate and direct their vehicles efficiently in real time, reducing operating expenses and carbon emissions.
What Organizations That Manage Fleets Can Do with Virtual Earth
Increase Efficiency
- Overlay location-based data on a map to facilitate fleet planning and routing.
- Get near real-time visibility into the location of your workers and assets, allowing fleets to be more responsive to schedule changes and reducing their downtime.
- Add weather and traffic data on a map, as well as your own data, to guide decision making about routes.
Reduce Costs and Environmental Impact
- Make better decisions about where to place fleet and mobile workforce resources for maximum cost-efficiency.
- Track fleets to prevent unsafe driving, which can lead to accidents, expensive repairs, and higher insurance premiums.
- Give drivers more direct routes, reducing fuel consumption, mileage, and carbon emissions.
Improve Customer and Constituent Services
- Use reverse geocoding to locate fleets, mobile employees, delivery sites, and emergency locations more quickly and easily.
- Access map data for analysis and allocate the right resources to local incidents, contributing to faster response times, mileage reduction, and an improvement in public safety and confidence.
