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By Greg Bartlett

GPS vehicle tracking is green? Well, perhaps most people don’t view it like that, but it does many things that are considered environmentally friendly. Vehicle tracking can cut down on gas consumption and it does help people keep their vehicles properly serviced by reminding them when it needs maintenance. But as the city of San Francisco is finding out, it can also help track your environmental friendliness.

Go Green

The city is currently working hard to reduce their carbon footprint by reducing vehicle abuse, cutting costs, and decreasing carbon emissions. However, they are currently using a deficient program to track all of this for the 800 vehicles belonging to the city. The program is lacking a way to track mileage or fuel use, which is vitally important to keeping accurate records of their environmentally friendly efforts. The program also incorporates a large amount of paper documents, which is of course completely contradictory to all their hard work to make their city green. The city is also unable to track individual drivers, which makes it very difficult for them to track vehicle abuse.

Although the city of San Francisco means well in their attempts to go green, they have realized that they are not going about things the best way. The city is now preparing to make the switch to GPS vehicle tracking. They estimated that in less than a year they would have incorporated the new system. The city of San Francisco will soon be proudly sporting their new GPS vehicle tracking systems as an example to other cities across the country.

GPS vehicle tracking is the perfect solution for the city of San Francisco. One reason is that it will enable the city to keep detailed records of their fuel consumption, which will cut costs and reduce carbon emissions. Tracking each city employee’s use of the vehicles will also eliminate extra side trips of a personal nature which will save money from being spent unnecessarily.

The citizens of San Francisco do not want their tax money going to pay for a city official’s personal errands, such as a trip to the grocery store, so they will applaud the city’s responsible use of their tax money. Also, cutting costs can be difficult for any department or business to do, but a vehicle tracking system will show them more clearly where there is unneeded spending and allow them to save money.