Roadnet Technologies Introduces Geotuning Logistics Tool
Send Via E-MailBALTIMORE, MD - September 6, 2011 - WastewaterPR.com - Roadnet Technologies Inc. (RTI) has announced the introduction of Geotuning™, a new productivity-enhancing tool for fleets that improves the accuracy of location information for transportation fleet owners.
Geotuning logistics tool
Roadnet Technologies Inc. (RTI) has announced the introduction of Geotuning™, a new productivity-enhancing tool for fleets that improves the accuracy of location information for transportation fleet owners. This process leads to improvements in operational efficiency, while also reducing fuel expenses and carbon emissions. Geotuning was successfully tested by a variety of existing Roadnet Technologies customers throughout a broad range of real-world situations before it was perfected and released as part of the Roadnet product suite of vehicle routing, scheduling and tracking software toolset.
Geotuning is configured as a combination of processes that captures large pools of street addresses, geocodes them, and then systematically refines the geocodes using both automatic and manual methodology. The direct benefit and result to fleet operators is improved leniency and the expansion of the arrival/departure zone at each delivery and service location, which places less direct responsibility on the drivers and mobile workers. This, in turn, improves overall accuracy and productivity performances, while saving energy resources.
Roadnet Technologies’ Geotuning is composed of multiple, independent, yet interconnected, tools that cumulatively provide significant advantages to fleet operators. The first is a “next-generation geocoder” which is comprised of an automatic system that identifies exactly where the product is scheduled to be delivered, or the service to be performed. The second tool is an analyzer, which analyzes geocodes for both cancelled stops and completed stops within a user-configurable distance.
The third component enables the user to review stops relative to locations and GPS pings to fine-tune the geocode or arrival/departure radius, which is also completely configurable. By moving or fine-tuning the geocode, the auto arrive/depart functionality will significantly outperform all currently-available solutions and produce significant savings of time and reductions of fuel.
“Our new Geotuning feature, the first of its kind, is designed to provide location accuracy and, thus, efficiency-enhancing and cost-reducing technology for our customers,” stated Len Kennedy, Chief Executive Officer. “The Roadnet Technologies development team worked closely with a representative sample of our customer base to develop and implement an advanced, easily-configurable system that can be adjusted for pinpoint accuracy at each stop.
“The system goes beyond the street address to identify the location of the specific loading dock or door the driver will use and takes into account that not all addresses are accurate or updated. This new Geotuning system is productivity-advancing, cost-reducing, and service-improving technology for the fleet management and route delivery industries,” he added.
Founded in 1983, Roadnet Technologies was acquired by United Parcel Service in 1986 and was known as UPS Logistics Technologies for more than 25 years. Thoma Bravo LLC, a $4 billion private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco, purchased the UPS division in late 2010 and re-established the corporate name.
Today, Roadnet Technologies provides worldwide fleet management solutions for hundreds of thousands of vehicles in a broad range of industries such as foodservice, beverage, paper, waste management, textile and energy. Roadnet’s fleet management applications and logistics software provides strategic territory and street-level route plans, multi-stop vehicle routing and scheduling, real-time wireless dispatch, vehicle telematics, fuel management, and real-time vehicle GPS tracking.
