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MVP for modern emissions and fuel management<\/h1>\n

How we helped TRACKS to design a software that reduces the fuel consumption of truck fleets<\/h3>\n

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The challenge:
A representative MVP within 1.5 months<\/h3>\n

Successful investment round leads to time pressure in software development<\/h5>\n

The road transport industry is currently working at full speed on solutions to reduce fuel consumption and the risk of congestion – and thus increase the efficiency and sustainability of the transportation system. Companies as well as politicians, consumers and investors want to achieve CO2 neutrality by 2050. On the current course, however, logistics emissions will double by 2050. At the same time, only 28% of global freight emissions were disclosed in 2019, and less than 1% in road freight transport. The reasons for this: fuel management and the disclosure of emissions are currently still ineffective, time-consuming and imprecise tasks for transport companies.<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence offers great opportunities here. TRACKS has also recognized this and is developing a software that enables the precise and automatic measurement and allocation of CO2 emissions in road freight transport<\/strong> and suggests relevant, efficiency-enhancing measures to reduce these emissions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Status of development at the start of the project:<\/h3>\n

A minimum viable product (MVP)<\/strong> of this software should analyze and predict the fuel consumption of truck fleets in order to improve fuel efficiency and reduce costs. TRACKS accesses data that is already collected from every truck, but networks it better so that fuel efficiency can even be analyzed across fleets and manufacturers.<\/p>\n

The technical foundation for efficiency analysis and efficiency comparison had already been laid at the start of the project and programmed in the back end, but awareness of the functionalities and the entire front end of the software was still missing. After a successful investment round, TRACKS was under time pressure – the MVP had to go live within 1.5 months. And so they came to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Facts about the project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Customer<\/strong><\/td>\nTRACKS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Product<\/strong><\/td>\nSoftware for predicting the fuel consumption of trucks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Duration<\/strong><\/td>\napprox. 1.5 month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Method<\/strong><\/td>\nUX \/ UI Design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Result<\/strong><\/td>\nMVP of the software<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The process: From paper prototypes to wireframes to an attractively designed software<\/h3>\n

Fuel Efficiency Index, sample figures and comparison charts – the challenge of visualizing data<\/h5>\n

When designing the MVP, we started at the very beginning: together with TRACKS, we defined requirements and features. This was followed by a scribble session<\/strong> in which the first paper prototypes<\/strong> were created.<\/p>\n

We built rough wireframes <\/strong>from the paper prototypes. On the one hand, these illustrated where the journey should go and enabled further iterations. On the other hand, TRACKS has already been able to use these low-fidelity prototypes for communication with investors.<\/p>\n

In an extensive workshop<\/strong>, we used the wireframes to validate the software’s concept, compile further requirements and refine the wireframes.<\/p>\n

In the end, we transferred the visual design<\/strong> of the existing website to the tool and adapted the existing style guide, which had previously focused primarily on print, to the requirements of the software.<\/p>\n

The MVP was completed on time.<\/p>\n

These are some of the features:<\/strong><\/p>\n