Cities Turn to Fleet Management Tech for Efficiencies

Source: GovTech Published: November 16th, 2020

Fleet management technology is helping to serve the transition toward electric vehicles, and better track mosquitos control in some cities.

In state capital cities like Sacramento, Calif. and Baton Rouge, La., officials have turned to fleet management technology, which generally provides real-time tracking of vehicles and operational data, for a sharp-eyed look into each pest and rodent abatement truck, snow plow or general-use sedan.

Sacramento is in the process of deploying fleet management technology from Samsara.

“We’re looking at dashboards. We’re pulling data everyday. We hope to be complete by the end of this year,” said Fleet Manager Mark Stevens.

Samsara will offer an opportunity “to look at information we never had, or were not able to [see] in the past,” he added. One of those key metrics is idling time. The city has a five-minute maximum idling policy, and the Samsara data is able to provide insight into which vehicles are overrunning this time limit.

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