Okay, I want to learn. Please start a new thread on this GPS Timestudy and post the specifics. What you think is good, bad and everything in between. Lay it out for us to pick apart, and let us be the judge.
Okay. Rather than a new thread, I'll post here.....
The new program focuses on the two most variable areas (other than travel). They are walks and delivery type.
For each residential stop the time study person looks at a satellite map of the delivery point. They look at where stop complete happened. If its not accurate, they move it (for instance if the driver pushed stop complete at the vehicle). This marks the end of the walk to the delivery location. They then mark a point at the middle of the street. The computer measures the amount of feet from the center of the street to the delivery point.
Yes, I know that you don't always walk a direct line to the delivery point. You also don't always walk from the center of the street.
The system remembers these points and more samples can be added by adding more delivery days or stops. Rather than using just a single day that can't be validated, now the data is saved and can easily be audited. It also uses exact distance measured instead of walk classifications that are estimated by an observer.
The process I mentioned is faster to do than the old process and the information is saved. If a new neighborhood is added, only that neighborhood needs to be sampled.
What I mentioned works for residential deliveries. For commercial deliveries, each building type is classified. There are about 5 or 6 classifications and each has a seperate allowance. Again, the information is saved and auditable.
Other items like COD, Signature, etc. are added in based on an allowance for those individual items and that data comes from the DIAD.
As I mentioned, based on the above, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you go, they are only measuring the area. So, each piece of geography is put into a unit. All the stops in the unit and all the planned time for the unit is added up. They then divide the stops into the planned time to come up with a stop allowance for the unit. The same happens for packages to give a package allowance.
This is a very high level overview of the process.
P-Man