Tag: mapping
The next stage for delivery?
by Andrew Macpherson on May.12, 2011, under Operations, Technology
Sometimes one can’t go out because something is due to be delivered.
With International shipments one does not get the luxury of the 1 hour timeslots offered by the responsible on-line grocers, and sometimes the truck’s depot can be 40 miles away in dense population areas, and more than 100 miles in more open areas.
But as the truck progresses on it’s route and the various drop-offs sign for their packages,it is in continuous contact with fleet management reporting when each delivery is made. I know that emergency services vehicles check in even more frequently giving their GPS co-ordinates to allow the dispatchers to select the best-placed responders.
As someone waiting for a parcel I would just like to track the truck’s progress by delivered postcode translated onto an online map to at least know when it is in the area. Not, I think, a difficult re-use of data that is already to hand.
