City of St. Petersburg is located on Florida's Gulf Coast. As Florida's fourth largest city with over 250,000 residents, it is also the gateway to Florida's High Tech Corridor and the hub of one of the country's most progressive regions for business.

CHALLENGES:

I. AVL for Operational Improvement: To improve city operations, the City of St. Petersburg wanted to obtain automatic vehicle location (AVL) and travel report information for its fleets.

St. Petersburg sought a GPS fleet management solution that would:

• lower fuel costs,
• monitor vehicle speeds
• increase employee productivity,
• improve asset safety and reduce liability, and
• elevate the delivery of service to the residents and public-at-large.
  

II. Multilevel, Permission-based Data Access: St. Petersburg wanted a special solution that would allow GPS fleet management information to be gathered from various departments but stored in one centralized database location. Furthermore, the city wanted the creation of permission-based security that would enable each department to view only those records relating to that department's assigned vehicles. City managers, however, could be authorized to view all data relating to all city vehicles.

FleetBoss's industry-leading expertise and unique, consultative approach made it a logical choice to meet St. Petersburg's needs. Consequently, FleetBoss was selected to provide customized fleet management solutions to help the City of St. Petersburg with its ultimate goal of achieving a more efficient, productive and cost-effective delivery of services.

SOLUTIONS:

I. AVL for Operational Improvement: In August 2002, St. Petersburg chose FleetBoss for the launch of the city's GPS fleet management pilot program. All vehicles from the city's Department of Leisure Services were equipped with FleetBoss systems to monitor their location, driver performance and speeding. In July 2003, the city upgraded to the networked Enterprise version of FleetBoss's system to achieve advanced monitoring of the city's vehicles from multiple municipal locations.

II. Multilevel, Permission-based Data Access: FleetBoss created a customized solution that allows St. Petersburg to organize vehicles into distinctive groups by department. The city's system administrator authorizes individual user-logins so city employees may access one or more of these groups as needed for operational oversight and management control.

Over the next three years, FleetBoss GPS solutions will be installed into hundreds of city vehicles. FleetBoss systems will be used by a variety of St. Petersburg departments to track the activities of passenger vehicles, small and medium duty trucks, large trucks, tractor trailer trucks, earth moving equipment, sanitation vehicles, tractors large lawn mowers, public safety vehicles and boats.