Fleet management involves optimally planning, supervising, and controlling fleet operations using available resources and information systems. It has various applications like vehicle tracking, health and safety monitoring, and route planning. Route planning arranges transport orders into vehicle tours using methods like the traveling salesman problem (TSP), vehicle routing problem (VRP), and pickup and delivery problem (PDP). GPS tracking uses satellites to track vehicle positions for fleet management. It provides advantages like improved efficiency, reduced costs, and transport transparency.

1. Fleet ManagementSina & JainaMGEPS: Logistics30/04/2010

2. AgendaDefinitionField of ApplicationRoute PlanningGPS TrackingAdvantages

3. DefinitionFleet Management comprises the target-oriented, optimalplanning, supervision and control of the fleet operations based on the available resources, considering internal and external influencing factors. A special focus is on the integration of organizational processes with modern informationsystems.

4. Fields of applicationObject tracking (vehicle tracking)Health and safety trackingFuel and speed managementSales order transmissionRoute planningDriver ManagementVehicle diagnostics

5. Route Planning - DefinitionRoute Planning serves to arrange different transport orders to tours of a vehicle fleet.The most known Route Planning problems are:The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) (only one vehicle!)the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)the Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP)

6. Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP)Goal: Find the shortest way of a circular tour (starting point = end point) that is as cost effective as possible that visits a certain amount of customers exactly once.

7. Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)The VRP is an extension of the TSP in which various vehicles are available at a depot.The VRP is therefore a combined assignment- and circular tour-problem

8. Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP)In PDP, consignments are picked up at one place and transported to their destination.The PDP is an amplified VRP Pick up locations and the destinations have to be in the same tourFull-Truckload PDP

9. Route Planning

10. Location-TrackingLocation-tracking helps companies tostreamline and control supply chains

11. move products to the market faster

12. monitor assets

13. prevent inventory loss

14. track vehicle fleetsCompanies must consider how to track inventoryin a smaller area

15. across a wide area Location tracking is not one, single technology.Local Area & Indoor TrackingRFID: Small, battery-less microchips is attached to consumer goods, vehicles, objects to track movements.Wide Area TrackingGPS: Signals received from Satellites to track movements of objects moving great distances.Tracking Technologies

16. Tracking Technologies: GPS Trackinghttp://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/19198-satellite-technology-the-global-positioning-system-video.htm

17. Tracking Technologies: GPS TrackingEvery vehicle must be equipped with a GPS receiver.As the vehicle moves around the world, satellites track the vehicle’s position.Positioning can be requested at anytime.

18. AdvantagesImprove efficiency & productivityReduce operating costsSpeed up logistics activitiesTransparency of all the transport eventsAutomatical data transfer from the order entry systemOptimal order distribution to the tours (cost-, time and customer optimal)

19. RefererncesDefinitionhttp://www.uni-koblenz.de/~iwi/publicfiles/Arbeitsberichte/Nr28.pdfField of Applicationhttp://www.buzzle.com/articles/fleet-management-a-must-have-tool-for-business.htmlhttp://tu-dresden.de/Members/karsten.peters/Verkehrslogistik.pdfRouting Planinghttp://ebus.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/www/media/lehre/tm-verkehrstelematik06/vt06-ve09-pdf.pdfhttp://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/ti/forschung/toleranzen/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problemGPS Trackinghttp://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/location-tracking1.htmVideo: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/19198-satellite-technology-the-global-positioning-system-video.htmhttp://ctsgps.com/Advantageshttp://www.buzzle.com/articles/fleet-management-a-must-have-tool-for-business.htmlhttp://www.donauschifffahrt.info/uploads/talks_downloads/Innovatives_Verkehrsmanagement_auf_der_Donau_v4_01.pdf

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