TomTom-Shell link benefits:
- Improved driving behaviour, resulting in reduced fuel spend and increased safety
- Transparency of fuel spend across the entire fleet
- Secure payment of easily tracked cashless fuel and non-fuel transactions such as road tolls and breakdown services
- Reducing the risk of potential fuel card misuse
TOMTOM Telematics is teaming up with Shell in Europe to jointly promote a telematics system promising savings to fleets by linking driver, vehicle and fuel data.
TomTom Telematics, Europe’s leader in the field, will be able to offer a combined solution for the monitoring and reporting of fuel data to reduce fuel consumption as well as CO2 emissions.
By providing fuel purchase reporting information in WEBFLEET, fleet managers can access driver, vehicle and fuelling data in a single fuel management solution rather than separate data sets from their telematics system and fuel card provider, reducing time-consuming administration.
Business analysts Frost & Sullivan research manager Sathyanarayana Kabirdas says this partnership will benefit fleet operators and customers by:
- Improved driving behaviour, resulting in reduced fuel spend and increased safety
- Transparency of fuel spend across the entire fleet
- Secure payment of easily tracked cashless fuel and non-fuel transactions such as road tolls and breakdown services
- Reducing the risk of potential fuel card misuse
This strategic move will help TomTom Telematics promote their products and services to a comparatively larger addressable market in Europe, while Shell can offer a more competitive and larger product/service portfolio (now including best-in-class telematics) to their customers.
Frost & Sullivan believes that core competencies of Shell and TomTom Telematics will mutually benefit the companies to offer integrated value-added services, helping them move northwards with respect to customer base as well as creating an innovative portfolio for the Fleet Management Solutions market.