Sirius Traffic Helps Motorists Avoid Traffic Congestion
Slowly we are moving to generally-available real-time ITS solutions that will help drivers navigate around traffic congestion, find fuel at the lowest cost along the route, and provide real-time...
View ArticleTransformational Trucks: Determining the Energy Efficiency Limits of a...
Rocky Mountain Institute: White Paper Feasible technological improvements in vehicle ef?ciency, combined with “long combination vehicles” (which raise productivity by connecting multiple trailers), can...
View ArticleFuelishness! Feed: Ford’s Focus on Eco-Driving; Pentagon’s Algae Fuel...
Ford’s new Focus on eco driving — It’s about being careful and not wasteful, both when it comes to the way a car runs and, indeed, how it is built in the first place and here Ford is reducing its...
View ArticleFuelClinic.com Fleet System adds AlertDriving Web-Based Driver Training and...
ORLANDO, Fla., July 6 /PRNewswire/ — Compendium Software Systems, LLC, creators of the FuelClinic.com Fleet System ( http://fleet.fuelclinic.com ), is excited to announce their new channel partnership...
View ArticleGoogle Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
From: The Spec Robot drivers react faster than humans, have 360-degree perception and do not get distracted, sleepy or intoxicated, the engineers argue. They speak in terms of lives saved and injuries...
View ArticleVideo Report on Google Car That Drives Itself in Traffic
Here’s a video peak at some of the hardware and software systems at work inside the Google Prius that has been driving itself around San Fransisco traffic over the past few months.
View ArticleGoogle Robot Car is Everywhere!
Even more for you Google Robot Car fans… The Google blog post says that its autopilot vehicles have logged more than 140,000 miles to date, which presumably means the project has been going on for...
View ArticleCar or computer? How transport is becoming more connected
Source: BBC News Italian carmaker Fiat has been compiling data from the Blue&Me navigation systems installed on many of its cars over a six-month period. It may be the largest such data harvest...
View Article“FuelClinic Fleet Systems” is now BrightFleet.com
Washington DC – Dec. 13th, 2010 – Compendium Software Systems, LLC announced today the release of BrightFleet.com™ http://www.brightfleet.com, marking a change in branding for all products previously...
View ArticleFiat’s Study: Eco-Driving Uncovered – Introduction
Last month Fiat Motors released the results of their eco:Drive system study of 9 million journeys by 42,000 European drivers. I’ve spent the last few days reading and re-reading it, and it’s so good...
View ArticleIncentivizing Drivers to Conserve Fuel – Bob Stanton, Polk County Florida
Bob Stanton is one of the most forward-thinking fleet managers in the country. He runs the Polk County, Florida government fleet, and has been referenced here in Fuelishness! and BrightFleet.com...
View ArticleMaryland Dimming Street Lights in Effort to Save Money
Baltimore Sun: In an effort to save energy and money, the State Highway Administration has cut back its overhead lighting on a six-mile stretch of the highway. If results from the year-long test are...
View Article“Vehicle Platooning” Project Carries out First Successful Test in Sweden
Source: http://www.traffictechnologytoday.com Volvo Proving Ground, Gothenburg, Sweden — …The vehicle platooning system is a convoy of vehicles, where a professional driver in a lead vehicle drives a...
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