Turning right to conserve fuel

A United Parcel Service (UPS) official was the featured speaker at a large community gathering recently.  In his speech, he described how the UPS delivery fleet is computer programmed in a manner so that delivery trucks only make right-hand turns on their route as often as possible. 

It turns out they are able to accomplish this more than 90 percent of the time.  Their reason behind this is that it has been proven to them that the practice is more efficient and conserves fuel.  Sounds like there might be an idea here for bus schedules.

Until next time,

Dan

posted @ Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:23 PM

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This would be excellent program for Paratransit operators who usually make decisions by manifests that only give destinations leaving them to select route. Also pickups must be on side of street the wheelchair lift is on.

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Left by Jared Mendham at 11/6/2008 10:52 AM
Hi Dan,

Just came across your post and thought I would mention that our product already works this into our routing and scheduling.

Our software is currently being used for paratransit in New York City, Boston, Detroit and many others, and we have proven that our system is more efficient than most anything else out there. I have a free webinar that I will be putting up on our website next week if you would like any further information, or simply contact me.

Thanks, and please keep up the good work & blog posts,

Warm regards,

Jared Mendham,
StrataGen Systems


PS - John, We're working on that too!

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