The use of GPS systems for vehicle tracking not only helps to protects vehicles and contents from being lost but it also has many environmental benefits.

“Businesses can use the real-time data provided by GPS to measure idling time, fuel consumption, driving speed and other factors which could affect both operating costs and carbon emissions, according to InSight USA.” Source - Energy Saving Trust

Let’s explore a few of the ways GPS vehicle tracking can make your company more eco-friendly.

Here are just a few ways vehicle tracking can help you become a Greener Company:

Reduced Carbon Emissions
Of course the main benefit is the reduction of carbon emissions . The carbon emissions can be easily reduced by using the vehicle tracking software and telematics equipment to monitor and make journey times more efficient by reducing engine idling times, efficient breaking, keeping down vehicle speed and only using the company’s fleet vehicles for business use.

Increase Fuel Efficiency
Bu using a vehicle tracking system and equipment in a company’s fleet of vehicles’ means they can monitor and track all the individual vehicles routes to determine whether the drivers are taking the most efficient and also to work out whether the vehicle is being used for personal mileage as well as business.

Reduce Journey Times
You can of course optimise journey times by using tracking equipment like mentioned above by evaluating the routes taken by each of your vehicles to help identify when vehicles have hit problematic routes or taken unnecessary router .

Identify Vehicle Speeding
As GPS vehicle tracking system should be able to quickly identify vehicles that are speeding on the software’s maps. The tracked routes can be colour coordinated to show the speed of each vehicle at the time of each position. Telematics units also provide functionality for reporting when a driver goes above a pre-determined speed, this allows fleet managers to quickly identify drivers that speed on a frequent basis and can be trained as necessary to allow safer and economical driving.

Reduce Engine Idling
Vehicle tracking as mentioned above are excellent for producing individual vehicle journey reports.
The reports give a complete breakdown of every journey the vehicles have made in a specified time period chosen by the user. The reports for each journey can show a summary of some of the factors mentioned in this article to workout engine idling by examining traveling and stopped times. All this data is perfect to allow fleet managers to identify drivers that are not being as efficient as that can and evaluate the processes so the driver can become more efficient and reduce engine idling.

Identify Harsh Braking
With telematics equipment it is also possible to identify a harsh braking even for each individual vehicle including the place and location it took place. This enables fleet managers to quickly identify that they may need additional driver training to manage the vehicle in a safer and economical manner.

Identify Engine over Revving
The GPS systems can also collect and store engine usage data on a web server when using some telematics equipment so that fleet managers can always access each individual vehicles usage statistics down to the time spent in each gear, over revving data and rev band statistics. This enables fleet managers to maintain all vehicles according to their usage and train drivers that are not driving to the best of the vehicles ability.

SafeTrac Solutions Ltd have provided highlighted these points to draw attention to the economical and environment6al benefits of GPS vehicle tracking. . Visit www.safetrac-solutions.com for more information.