An organisation in the health sector were refreshing their fleet but felt they may have too many vehicles.

“I was immediately able to right-size our investment in new vehicles”

The challenge

The organisation were in the market for new vehicles but were unsure of how many were actually needed. Naturally, they were worried about over-investment and being tied into long-term leasing contracts. They suspected there was over-capacity in their fleet, but because they had large amounts of disparate data, it was impossible to know for sure.


Solution

Fleetonomics undertook a strategic review of their fleet to help them accelerate to a lower emission fleet. This encompassed eight months of data input across the full fleet of 175 vehicles. Specific functionality was developed to allow Fleetonomics to measure inter-site journeys and identify potential to consolidate trips. 


A single source of truth

By creating a single source of truth, Fleetonomics identified overcapacity in the fleet of 20% without any disruption to business operations. As well as reducing the fleet’s carbon footprint by 36%, the optimisation plan also reduced operating expenses by $0.3m and mitigated $0.5m in EV transition costs. 


Maximise the use of lower-emission vehicles

Our findings enabled their Sustainability Lead to engage users in evidence-based discussions to improve efficiency. And by prioritising use of their lowest emission vehicles, made even greater gains.

Fleetonomics also pinpointed opportunities to improve the vehicle booking system, enabling more car sharing across sites.

The organisation’s Sustainability Lead said:

“The analysis created the single source of truth on our actual fleet utilisation and not only substantiated the under-utilisation I suspected was present in our organisation’s fleet but also enabled me to engage my key internal stakeholders, including leadership, in meaningful conversations to improve the efficiency of our fleet. I was immediately able to right-size our investment in new vehicle leases and accelerate our transition to lower emission vehicles.”