Correlations in Transport Data: What Fleet Management Is Missing Out On

Fleet management software has been a boon for transport organizations to increase the overall equipment effectiveness of their vehicles. The business of transportation is a very precise one, with hairline margins for error in vehicle maintenance. Software using the concept of big data is a must for organizations to have effective manpower, equipment, and other resource utilizations.

The strength of software can also be harnessed to drive cost-control projects. An example of that is vehicular scheduling for better profit extraction. It is necessary for organizations to comply with statutory government agencies and furnish records of safety and accountability if required. In this case big data is helpful for retrieving information instantaneously and connecting the dots with ease. 

 

A transportation organization, operating around the globe, processes on average 13 billion Telematics data thought the year. This massive amount of data generated is impossible to handle without automated management. Big data underpins the efforts in new channels of productivity, communication with vehicle manufacturers, and growth in the true sense of the word.

Advanced software, imbibing the concepts of big data, cannot replace human input completely, but rather compliments it by collating information side by side, and making it meaningful and workable. Today, these advanced technologies can be used to connect abstract information and churn out ready-to-use, analytical reports, which take the decision-making management to a different level. Fleet-management business today have evolved complex, with numerous new parameters being added each day. Managers have to work with tighter budgets, stringent regulatory frameworks, and sky high customer expectations. To effectively steer one's business, through a profitable direction, it is imperative to set up smart data-capture points and capture high-quality data.

To extract maximum benefit, organizations need to embrace Telematics. It is an interdisciplinary field, which takes into account telecommunications, IT, and vehicular technologies. It can be used for remote transfer of information with the help of the internet and GPS.

Telematics can be used to correlate transport data and decide the best possible options available with the organization for any given problem. It can be used to dispatch the most efficient vehicles in the fleet, by analyzing the obtained data which denotes roadworthiness. Telematics can also be used to capture and process information like the number of hard turns taken by a vehicle, braking patterns, axel wear-and-tear, potent driving patterns and more.

With informative graphs and automatic reports, most worthy vehicles at any point of time can be denoted through the maintenance needs of the others. If companies can use such data-intensive technologies, they can also use robust evidence to communicate their warranty claims with robust evidence. The process of getting a claim validated can be easy when the manufacturer provides you with a simple enough interfaces that automatically creates its reports related to the complaint you select while submitting a claim.

To harness more from software, on-road route guidance is a must for drivers to optimally run the vehicle. Big data allows the driver to know the traffic conditions, chances of natural disasters and feedback for other drivers on similar routes. This awesome information can be used to minimize the very need for warranty administration.

As best practices become the driver's responsibility, and not just the management's, it becomes easy to conclude whether the onus of repair is on the manufacturer, supplier, or both! Making life easy for drivers are technologies that guide vehicles to their destinations in the most cost-effective manner in a given situation of traffic and weather. Such data can also be used to denote under-utilized vehicles, which eat into valuable margins.