Big Data: An On-Ramp to Better Fleet Management?

Government Technology: Vehicle fleets may be poised for another round of innovation in management solutions. As they stand, fleets are costly, hard to follow and often generate multiple streams of data.

Regardless, state and local governments are finding that modernizing and improving virtual fleet management can improve everything from fuel economy and on-the-job safety.

The “real magic,” according to Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at California-based Hortonworks, lies in combining real-time data with historic data — something agencies are increasingly coming to realize.

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