The use of GPS systems for vehicle tracking not only helps to look after vehicles and cargo 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

This article highlights 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
One of the main green benefits to the environment is of course to minimise Carbon Emissions. The carbon emissions can be reduced easily by using the vehicle tracking software and telematics equipment to monitor and make journey times more efficient by reducing engine idling times, keeping vehicle speed down, efficient braking 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 identify whether the vehicle is being used for personal mileage as well as business.

Reduce Journey Times
Tracking equipment and telematics can of course be used to optimise journey times 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 train the drivers where necessary to be more economical and efficient .

Reduce Engine Idling
Most vehicle tracking products can provide 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 every journey can show a summary of some of the factors mentioned in this article to workout engine idling by examining traveling and stopped times. This allows fleet managers to determine which drivers leave their vehicles idling for long periods of time

Identify Harsh Braking
Harsh breaking events are also identifiable with GPS vehicle tracking 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
Engine usage data can also be collected automatically and stored 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.

This article was provided by SafeTrac Solutions Ltd a leading UK GPS vehicle tracking company based in the south of England. Visit www.safetrac-solutions.com for more information.