Knowledge Centre
25th August 2009
The AA has released a new online navigation tool which it claims can help businesses save money through more efficient planning.
Aimed at hauliers and couriers, the pay-as-you-go Route Optimiser claims to reduce transport costs by up to 20%, while slashing carbon emissions by 30%, using the same technology as the group's Route Planner.
The service uses software that previously cost £50,000, according to developer Postcode Anywhere, meaning small businesses were priced out of the market. The company says that the new service will offer SMEs a degree of protection against fluctuating petrol prices.
In addition to the standard service - aimed at smaller vehicle carriers - which plans the shortest route for each journey, there is also a premium service. This takes into account the dimensions of individual vehicles - meaning drivers should not run into unforeseen restrictions such as low bridges.
Companies that want to use the service will have to buy a licence, then buy credits which are used up with each drop-off point on a customised route.
Route Optimiser lead developer Richard Geary said: "The green issues are also very powerful.
"If every UK haulage or courier firm started using this technology we'd see a noticeable drop in carbon emissions - millions and millions of tons of CO2."
IMAGE AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
Navigation tool 'to save on SME transport costs'
Aimed at hauliers and couriers, the pay-as-you-go Route Optimiser claims to reduce transport costs by up to 20%, while slashing carbon emissions by 30%, using the same technology as the group's Route Planner.
The service uses software that previously cost £50,000, according to developer Postcode Anywhere, meaning small businesses were priced out of the market. The company says that the new service will offer SMEs a degree of protection against fluctuating petrol prices.
In addition to the standard service - aimed at smaller vehicle carriers - which plans the shortest route for each journey, there is also a premium service. This takes into account the dimensions of individual vehicles - meaning drivers should not run into unforeseen restrictions such as low bridges.
Companies that want to use the service will have to buy a licence, then buy credits which are used up with each drop-off point on a customised route.
Route Optimiser lead developer Richard Geary said: "The green issues are also very powerful.
"If every UK haulage or courier firm started using this technology we'd see a noticeable drop in carbon emissions - millions and millions of tons of CO2."
IMAGE AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
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