If you’re still using old-fashioned fleet management tools, 2025 is an ideal time to upgrade. Today’s transportation management software offers fleet management GPS tracking, transportation routing systems, and so much more.
Benefits of Implementing Fresh Software
Here are 9 reasons to consider upgrading to the latest fleet management app and software package:
1. Real-Time Visibility
With SHARE Mobility's Dispatcher Portal, your dispatchers can experience nearly unprecedented real-time fleet tracking and control. Tracking vehicles while they’re en route allows your dispatch team to:
- Optimize routing and scheduling on the fly to reduce identified delays
- Work around potential safety issues or hazards
- Respond in an agile manner to emerging situations
This level of insight can also help your team with future planning. Your dispatchers can report on any issues that arise during each shift, as well as how they responded and what results they obtained. This gives you a great deal of information to use as you tweak your future routes, schedules, and staffing levels.
2. Efficient, Cost-Saving Route Planning
Our smart tools can help you plan routes more efficiently than ever before. From a single platform, you can:
- Plan fleet usage for each day of the week and time of the day
- Identify underused vehicles and routes to develop more cost-effective solutions
- Schedule usage-based vehicle servicing rather than servicing them all at fixed intervals
- Choose smarter routes to increase ridership and minimize fuel costs
This can increase fleet efficiency across your organization, ultimately creating a better experience for your riders and fleet management teams—as well as boosting your bottom line.
3. Convenient, Streamlined Operations
One of the biggest challenges that many organizations face is siloed data coupled with multiple communication channels. This can make it tough for fleet managers to easily access the information they need, as well as to communicate vital information to drivers, dispatchers, and customers.
Our fleet management tools centralize all of your transportation planning software, data, and communication methods into a single package. This keeps everyone on the same page and can help to reduce operational bottlenecks.
4. Driver Accountability
Driver accountability can be tough for any organization. It’s important to hire people you trust, and to give them some autonomy—but with lives on the line, it also makes sense to check in on them.
Our fleet management tracking tools allow you to monitor and even record driver performance. You can check that they are adhering to your company policies and safety standards while driving passengers, and even look for incidents of unneeded idling or unauthorized usage of company vehicles.
5. Improved Communication
SHARE Mobility’s fleet management tools include designated rider and driver apps. This makes it easy for your dispatchers to provide real-time updates to both drivers and passengers about any delays or route changes. It also gives dispatchers and drivers a centralized place to collaborate to resolve issues as they arise.
6. Data-Driven Decision-Making
Two of the most powerful features of SHARE's transportation planning software are our Commuter Analysis and SHARE Analyze tools. Commuter Analysis helps you to better understand local commuting conditions, including average commuting patterns and lengths, along with the location of public transit stops. SHARE Analyze allows you dig into fleet data like ridership levels, on-time performance, and even driver no-shows.
Combining fleet management and analysis into a single transportation planning software platform has numerous benefits. You can more easily generate fleet management reports and make changes based on the results. In addition, you can use data from a variety of sources, such as dispatchers and drivers, to make smarter decisions about routes, vehicles, and scheduling.
7. Better Customer Experience
Upgraded mobility management software is a win-win for everyone: It lifts work off the shoulders of your transportation managers, but riders also get more customization and control, improving their experience. Our dedicated rider app offers user-friendly booking along with real-time tracking that offers accurate vehicle arrival times, keeping riders apprised of any unusual circumstances or delays. All of this can make a real difference in customer satisfaction and loyalty—while removing scheduling work from employees who could focus their efforts at a higher level.
8. Reduced Environmental Impact
Did you know that fleet routing software can even help your company reduce your environmental impact? Our sophisticated tools allow you to track fuel usage and carbon emissions—both by vehicle and fleetwide. They can also help you to optimize fleet scheduling to ensure fuller vehicle and fewer wasted miles.
9. Competitive Advantage
Upgrading your fleet management system can even provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Our data analysis tools allow you to forecast future needs with more accuracy, while our scalable software is ready to grow with your company. Our cutting-edge approach to customer, driver, and dispatcher needs can even help you attract new customers.
Real-World Results
So how does all of this work in the real world? Here is an example of how SHARE Mobility was able to help one small town undertake a project improve its public transit.
Before SHARE Mobility got involved, the rural community of Chillicothe had only a few fixed public transit routes, which weren’t sufficient to get its population of ~22,000 where they needed to go. The poverty rate was high, but workers were unable to reach good manufacturing jobs outside of town—and there were even reports of townspeople calling ambulance services for a ride to doctor appointments.
SHARE Mobility’s suite of tools showed the city's transportation managers, who had previously relied on pen and paper, the benefits of using modern software to easily build, manage, and optimize routes. By the end of the project, the total number of miles that town vehicles traveled decreased while ridership increased, and the cost savings allowed the town to offer fare-free, on-demand rides for its residents. The net result? A stunning 730% increase in ridership year over year. Chillicothe’s on-demand ride service gave more than 38,000 rides from January through November 2022.
Get Your Fleet Moving with SHARE Mobility
Are you ready to take your fleet management to the next level in 2025? Learn more about how SHARE Mobility can help you optimize your routes, streamline fleet operations, and gain a competitive advantage. A member of our sales team would be happy to speak with you further about how our customizable software package can transform your transportation management.
