The Road to Zero program is an educational program designed to eliminate roadway deaths. After several decades of steady declines in roadway deaths, we experienced a large jump in the number of deaths with 5,000 more people being killed in auto roadway accidents in 2016 than in 2011. Thus, the Road to Zero Coalition, managed by the National Safety Council, was born.

According to the RAND Corporation, the coalition has created three primary initiatives to help them achieve their goals of ending traffic fatalities, including:

1. Double down on things that have proven to be effective evidence-based strategies.
2. Advance technology in vehicles designed to save lives.
3. Creating a positive safety culture that prioritizes safety on the roads.

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Mold remediation businesses tackle tough problems that plague homeowners across the country. Restoring homes and businesses to normal after a mold problem improves health and preserves the property from the damage mold causes. Whether you’re removing mold in attics, basements, crawl spaces, air ducts, or other areas of homes or businesses, doing your job well improves the lives of many people each year. GPS tracking for mold removal fleets can help you do your job better.

Improve Scheduling and Route Planning

GPS fleet tracking provides you with all the tools you need to improve your scheduling and route planning. This allows you to create more accurate schedules, which your customers will appreciate, and work more appointments in your day. You can improve customer service, get more customer recommendation, and make more money in the same amount of time when you plan routes more efficiently with GPS tracking.

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According to Heritage Land Bank, farmers are disproportionately affected by crime. Unfortunately, the crimes most commonly carried out against American farmers can have financially devastating consequences — especially when they come in the form of farm equipment theft. There are steps you can take, though, that will help protect your equipment and your investment in it, including those listed below.

Use GPS Tracking for Agriculture

GPS tracking can not only notify you, instantly, if your farm equipment is removed from your property (or even started up after hours), it can also provide life tracking information so law enforcement can track the location of your farm equipment to aid in its swift recovery. While farm equipment theft is critical at any time of year, it is especially critical during busy planting and/or harvesting seasons where even the loss of one day of usage can be devastating. The faster you can recover your equipment the better it is for your farm. GPS tracking is the best way to ensure prompt recovery.

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Two Best Satellite Solar Powered Asset Trackers to Consider

Remote tracking and asset management can be vital for businesses operating at distances or even those operating locally. Solar powered asset tracking allows you to track your assets for years on a single battery that’s recharged by the sun.

When you’re making an investment in your business, like solar powered remote asset tracking, only the best will do. If you’ve decided that solar powered asset trackers are the way to go for your organization, then you want one of these two trackers.

Iridium Satellite Solar Powered Asset Tracker

The Iridium satellite solar powered asset trackers offer many attractive features you are sure to love. These are some of the features your organization may find useful: Read the rest of this entry »

A team of volunteers, international scientists and center staff have attached GPS tracking devices to the backs of small birds known as kuriri, or Pacific golden plovers,with the hopes of obtaining answers to questions about why these little creatures coming to New Zealand are declining.

The Miranda shores, in the Firth of Thames, are the kuriri’s part-time home. Several decades ago, each year they’d arrive in thousands, escaping the winter of the Northern Hemisphere. Now there is fewer than 200 that visit.

It’s a mystery why the numbers of these birds visiting New Zealand have declined so much. Most of the birds’ life is also a mystery.

Every year, the small birds voyage in locations close to the Arctic Ocean for nesting. Whether this is Alaska or Sibera is not known. It’s also not known which route the birds take and where they may stop during their journey. There’s theory there may be a degraded habitat they could be using as a stop-off point.

Identifying the answers could be a great first step in learning more about the birds’ decline.

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