ROUTE COST ANALYSIS FOR FLEET MANAGEMENT USING GPS TECHNOLOGY

Route cost estimation is a critical issue for commercial fleet management as it has a potentially significant impact on fleet productivity and freight transport efficiency. However, current route cost estimation is largely based on approximate information on a vehicle's operation and fleet managers' experience, resulting in unreliable cost estimation for routine fleet management. In this paper, a route cost analysis algorithm using GPS technology is presented. A polynomial fitting procedure, based on least squares criteria, is used in this algorithm to mitigate the effects of selective availability (SA), multipath and data outages. Vehicles' spatial and temporal information of each delivery journey can be computed from GPS by using this algorithm to ensure an objective route cost estimation. The results of experiments in urban areas indicate that adequate spatial and temporal information on vehicles' operations can be derived using GPS with metre-level accuracy in terms of spatial information, and minute-level accuracy in terms of temporal sampling. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no. 899454.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Australia

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• Authors:
  • Wang, P
  • Rizos, C
• Conference:
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ITS AUSTRALIA, 3RD, 1997, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Conferences; Costs; Economic efficiency; Freight transportation; Global Positioning System; Intelligent transportation systems; Itinerary; Management; Mathematical models; Operating costs; Transportation; Travel time; Trip length; Urban areas; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Guidance
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 237: Economic efficiency; 6440: Error; 9126: Global positioning system; 741: Goods traffic; 9104: Guidance; 699: Itinerary; 697: Journey time; 6473: Mathematical model; 221: Operating costs; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00764576
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: May 28 1999 12:00AM