Non-emergency transportation is a service desperately needed by a wide range of Medicaid and Medicare users. In addition, it is a business for others and it must be profitable to keep all the involved parties satisfied. Getting your vehicles from point A to point B is not enough to start a successful company. More thinking should go into planning expenses especially if your business is just taking off. With the increase in orders and fleet, you might see a decrease in profit. What can be the reason for that? A lot of factors influence your income, but there is the main one. If you operate using old-fashioned strategies, your ship can leak from any side. Let’s talk about routing and its effect on business.
What is routing?
In simple words, it means delivery from one point to another. If you think about it that way, the trouble will come to you soon. Routing is about creating the most efficient plan of delivery in terms of time, money, and comfort. Driving people means thinking about the convenient pickup and dropoff point. Also, it might mean that you have to stop on the way or drive a certain route. It seems impossible to consider everything while planning one trip, what about dozens a day? The order might also have special requirements, like a certain type of vehicle. Routing should not happen manually. Modern technologies provide more than one solution to ensure a sleek process of routing. With the right software, your routing process can be performed smoothly and effortlessly. What exactly can it improve?
Cut costs with routing optimization
The software accounts for all the specifications of the trip. Things like area, current and target locations of the driver, patient needs, vehicle type required, are all considered when assigning a transport to the order. The sophisticated and complex process happens in a matter of seconds. Hence, your company can handle more orders without even having fewer vehicle units than competitors simply because they do not react to the incoming orders as quickly.
Time efficiency
The staff can save time on routine tasks and concentrate on more complex ones that require human attention. Route optimization software ensures the speed of completing the order, and in that way increases the capabilities of the company. Besides, it provides the best schedule possible for the driver. It allows planning well-optimized routes to shorten the downtime.
Replace paper processes
By synchronizing with the online maps and other useful programs, the route you receive is optimized to the smallest details. Traffic, roadblocks, unfavorable routes for certain vehicles are all accessed via Cloud, and all the records are completed instantly. Hence, the paperwork of one trip does not require a team of specialists. It leaves no space for internal bureaucracy.
Safe Data storage
All the data is stored online, hence it is updated automatically. Your routing is up-to-date since the software does it as often as needed. Routing becomes effective and the chances of losing money due to a bad map, or human error are excluded.
