The company claims its platform helps customers reduce their fleet administration overhead by 30% now and their fleet cost by up to 10%, as well as touting additional benefits around data privacy, and compliance with environmental and owner's liability laws.
After Sept. 11, 2001, the biggest domestic airlines reduced their fleets by hundreds of planes, so they needed fewer pilots.
It is worth noting that Japan and Spain both reduced their fleets during this period, reflecting active restructuring policies that include the replacement of their existing fleets.
To be sure, smart companies have embraced sustainability as a business imperative, and many have successful ongoing initiatives in areas they can address on their own streamlining their manufacturing processes or reducing their fleet emissions, for instance.
They argue that the makers of small cars, which sell so many more vehicles, should have to do more to reduce emissions perhaps by reducing their fleet averages well below the EU's proposed 130g/km limit.Intensive lobbying by BMW and Mercedes, with support from the EU's industry commissioner, Günter Verheugen (who happens to be German), and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has had some effect.
They have been able to cut the size of their transport fleet, reduce their fuel bill, and sell more juice.
Moreover, the charter requires that municipal administrations invest in their public transit networks and in their vehicle fleet, so as to reduce their carbon footprint.
Vehicle manufacturers are required to reduce their European sales-weighted emissions to 95 g CO2/km by 2020, with the aim of reducing on-road fleet fuel consumption.
Indeed, many companies try to reach young adults by forming alliances with colleges, companies and local governments to help them reduce the size of their fleets and free up parking space.
While Mr. Obama has broadly insisted that the automakers radically increase the fuel efficiency of their fleets, reduce carbon emissions and save the maximum number of jobs possible, he will have just nine weeks after taking office to press for a detailed transformation of an industry whose problems have been building for three decades.
