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Writer's pictureRebeka Honti

Unleashing the Power of Efficiency: Introducing Idle Time Rebalancing

Ubiq announces a new feature that elevates fleet performance.


Our Solution for Fleet Compliance with City Regulations


Shared mobility providers face the challenge of complying with various regulations, including those specific to the cities in which they operate. For example, one such regulation is restricted parking time in high-demand city areas and centers. This introduces an added layer of complexity on their internal operations teams, responsible for fleet management, resulting in increased costs. They must navigate regulatory requirements while ensuring optimal fleet performance efficiency.


If not handled effectively, this situation poses several risks for shared mobility providers:


  • High costs associated with covering fines for non-compliance.

  • Potential negative impact on the provider's reputation and image within the city.


Certain city regulations add even more complexity and importance to idle time-based rebalancing. In the example of Hamburg, where combustion engine cars are permitted to park for a maximum of 2 hours, as indicated by a parking disc every half hour. Hence, it is important to identify and relocate vehicles with the highest risk of exceeding the 2-hour limit.


What is Idle Time Rebalancing?


Idle time rebalancing allows the possibility to move vehicles from any city area to other high-demand areas based on their idle time or parked duration. While classic rebalancing enables the movement of vehicles from low-demand to high-demand areas, idle time rebalancing offers more flexibility over the classic rebalancing use case.


How Can Idle Time Rebalancing Effectively Address the Problem?


The key advantage of this new feature is that it enables cars to be relocated from any city area to the other high-demand zone based on their idle time. Additionally, we can also combine factors such as specific times of the day, car models, or designated city zones. This enables us to strategically relocate cars throughout the city, while adhering to local regulations and ensuring a maintained and balanced distribution of vehicles across different areas, without disrupting the overall fleet management. With the ability to create dynamic rules, idle time rebalancing generates tasks only for vehicles at the highest risk of getting fined.


Why Are We Proud of Our New Feature?


Once the primary pain point and risk was identified through close collaboration between our client, MILES, and the Ubiq team - the feature was developed at a remarkable speed of one month from concept to production deployment. This accelerated timeline ensures immediate usability and enables our client to promptly utilize its benefits. In addition, thanks to the QA process, which includes thorough testing of even the most intricate edge cases, guarantees a bug-free launch of the feature.


We invite you to explore the solutions we have developed to address them, to find out more, follow this link


About the Author


Meet Rebeka Honti, our Client Success Manager at Ubiq. Passionate about customer relationship and experience, and being the voice of our Hungarian clients to internal teams. She works together with the Client Success Manager team to ensure the delivery of a top-quality product that moves us forward toward our shared vision. When she's not working, she plays at SVUNG, the Hungarian Theater in Vienna, and goes for runs in Prater Park.


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*Based on Ubiq's data.


 


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