Patent ID: 8315802

Claim:
A system for analyzing the use of a mobile resource comprising: a computer system comprising computer hardware, the computer system comprising one or more computing devices and programmed to implement: an acquisition module adapted to receive positional information for an actual route traveled by a mobile resource between two or more geographic locations, wherein the positional information is determined from an analyzer device incorporating position determining technology wherein the analyzer device is associated with the mobile resource; an optimization module adapted to create an optimal travel route between the two or more geographic locations based on resources that would be used for traveling over the optimal route including at least one of time, distance, cost, and load parameters; a comparison module adapted to compare the actual route traveled by said mobile resource with the optimal travel route created by said optimization module; and an output module adapted to provide output reflective of a comparison between the actual route traveled between the two or more geographic locations and the optimal travel route between the two or more geographical locations, wherein said output module generates a first efficiency calculation of the optimal travel route based on first resources that would be used to travel over the optimal route, wherein the first resources include at least one of time, distance, cost, load parameters, territory, and customer requirements of the optimal route and a second efficiency calculation of the actual travel route based on second resources that would be used to travel over the actual route, wherein the second resources include at least one of time, distance, cost, and load parameters of the actual route, and wherein the output module determines a value added based on a comparison of the first efficiency calculation with the second efficiency calculation and output reflective of a value added by traveling the optimal travel route between the two or more geographic locations.