An Optimal Route & Vehicle Assignment Fleet Management System with Real-Time Monitoring

This paper presents a GIS based fleet management system with optimal vehicle assignment. The system is designed on top of a mesh based communication infrastructure for the mobile nodes to communicate. Communication network comprises of multiple networks i.e. VHF gateways, GSM and GPRS network to ensure reliability. The mesh based communication approach enables easy deployment of the system in real world. OLSR routing protocol is used for establishing an ad hoc network for peer-to-peer communication which is best suited for the applications where the number of hosts is too large for normal network infrastructure to handle, like in transportation industry. The paper involves research in the fields of mobile communication and tracking in collaboration with state of the art technologies like GPS and GIS.GPS and GIS technologies are used for fleet tracking, monitoring and display of vehicle on the map.