Telematics, Specification and Evaluation

Fleet managers have adopted telematics as an objective tool for managing fleet utilisation, tracking vehicles, and exercising their duty of care by monitoring driver activities behind the wheel. This can include keeping track of driver hours, vehicle speeds, driving styles (e.g. braking and acceleration profiles) and fuel consumption. The ease with which telematics can be installed in a vehicle (it is typically a small electronic ‘black box') means that it is well-suited to all types of vehicles from trucks to cars, and can be used for official fleets, pool vehicles and even ‘grey fleet' vehicles.

With this choice and flexibility, the vehicle telematics market can often seem like a minefield to negotiate: the market is awash with new products with a wide array of features. TRL can help: our extensive experience in this market includes working with fleet operators, insurance companies and telematics suppliers.

If you are looking to fit telematics to your fleet, talk to us about how we can help with:

• Searching the market to find a telematics solution to fit your business needs
• Trialling and evaluating telematics for your business
• Collecting and processing telematics data so that you can understand how your vehicles are being driven
• Calculating driver risk
• Developing driver interventions and feedback to target risks

If you are a telematics supplier we can also assist with product development and testing using our world-class road safety experts and comprehensive laboratory and track facilities, which now includes the new innoVITS ADVANCE track in Nuneaton. innovITS ADVANCE is the world's first purposs-built facility for the development, testing and validation of Intelligent Transport Systems and Telematics technology, products and services.

For more information, contact:

Simon Tong
Senior Research Scientist
Tel: +44 1344 770378
Email: stong@trl.co.uk