Patent ID: 8290701

Claim:
A method for optimizing energy use of a fleet of powered vehicle assets, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of destinations to be visited by a fleet of vehicle assets, wherein each of said destinations is defined by three-dimensional location data having a latitude component, a longitude component, and an elevation component; identifying two or more vehicles, each of said vehicles having a corresponding vehicle type, wherein the vehicle type is internal combustion, electric or hybrid; identifying two or more drivers capable of operating said vehicles, each driver having a corresponding driver profile, wherein the driver profile comprises information regarding past driver behavior that is reflective of energy use; and by using one or more computing devices, determining two or more combinations of a vehicle, a driver, and a transportation route, wherein a transportation route comprises a subset of the plurality of destinations, wherein the combinations are configured to reduce the total amount of energy required for said vehicles to visit the plurality of destinations, and wherein the determination of the two or more combinations is based, at least in part, on the vehicle type and the driver profile, and wherein the determination of the two or more combinations is implemented by one or more computing devices comprising one or more processors and memory.