Telogis Enhances Multi-Vehicle Planning Tool

Telogis has announced the release of Telogis Route, the Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for multi-vehicle optimization and planning. The solution bundles routing and dispatching functionality from GeoBase and Fleet into a single application for strategic and dynamic planning.

The solution combines routing and scheduling capabilities from the company’s products into a single offering and incorporates relevant constraints and cost factors to optimize fleet schedules. Business rules such as delivery windows, driver skill set and specialty vehicle equipment are modeled along with costing factors such as fuel economy, driver rate and job revenue to calculate optimal schedules. By automating the process through a sophisticated modeling program, companies can generate operational savings of greater than 20 percent over manual route planning.

The solution leverages the power of GeoBase, an enterprise geospatial platform. This provides it with detailed mapping data, providing essential information for accurate route planning. As a result, the solution supports commercial vehicle restrictions such as bridge height and weight, historic and real-time traffic and custom routing rules such as avoiding left-hand turns.

As a cloud-based solution, it requires no special hardware and has lower upfront costs than legacy client-server solutions, resulting in a more rapid return on investment. The SaaS model also enables large, distributed companies to deploy the solution across a number of locations.

Telogis, www.telogis.com.