Here’s the press release:

TomTom Business Solutions, the division dedicated to commercial fleets, has announced the availability of Active Driver Feedback and WEBFLEET OptiDrive™; two new features focused at further increasing TomTom’s safety and efficiency benefits for businesses.

“The Active Driver Feedback functionality truly puts the driver center stage in the quest by businesses to improve safety and efficiency on the road, while the information available to fleet managers via OptiDrive helps ensure increased overall fleet efficiencies.”
Active Driver Feedback promotes safe driving by providing drivers immediate feedback on their driving performance via their TomTom PRO navigation devices. The new feature delivers prompts to the device screen when the driver is speeding, harshly steering or braking, and idling.
WEBFLEET OptiDrive™ gives business management an easy tool to help their drivers drive more safely and in an efficient way. WEBFLEET OptiDrive presents information in clear graphs and reports to fleet managers. The OptiDrive Indicator is a simple bar displaying variables such as speeding, idling and driving events. The OptiDrive Indicator can be tailored to the priorities of every business, simply by adjusting the relative weight of the variables.
“We believe that empowering drivers is a key success factor in promoting a safe driving policy,” said Michael Geffroy, Vice President of TomTom Business Solutions. “The Active Driver Feedback functionality truly puts the driver center stage in the quest by businesses to improve safety and efficiency on the road, while the information available to fleet managers via OptiDrive helps ensure increased overall fleet efficiencies.”
Availability
The new Active Driver Feedback feature and WEBFLEET OptiDrive will become available in Q3 2011. These offerings are part of the range of WORKsmart™ fleet management solutions. A subscription to TomTom WEBFLEET is required. Functionality differs per chosen hardware selection:
Active Driver Feedback requires a TomTom PRO navigation device
Idling, steering and breaking notifications require a TomTom LINK 300 in the vehicle
Speeding notifications are based on the map data on the PRO device
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About TomTom
Founded in 1991, TomTom (AEX:TOM2) is the world’s leading supplier of in-car location and navigation products and services focused on providing all drivers with the world’s best navigation experience. Headquartered in Amsterdam, TomTom has over 3,500 employees and sells its products in over 40 countries.
Our products include portable navigation devices, in-dash infotainment systems, fleet management solutions, maps and real-time services, including the award winning TomTom HD Traffic.
For the world’s most up-to-date route planner, including live traffic information please visit www.tomtom.com/livetraffic
For further information, please visit www.tomtom.com
TomTom Business Solutions is a leading provider of fleet management solutions, and is recognized as the fastest growing Telematics Service Provider (TSP) for commercial fleets in Europe. TomTom Business Solutions is fully dedicated to commercial vehicle fleets and has been operating under the TomTom WORK brand for the past 5 years. TomTom Business Solutions’ WORKsmart fleet management solutions integrate navigation, dispatch and tracking through a combination of industry-leading hardware, software and maps.

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In his latest attempt at slimming the bureaucracy, Gov. Bob McDonnell will ask state lawmakers to dissolve two state agencies, scrap 19 boards and commissions, and deregulate hair braiders.
He also is seeking to merge about a half-dozen state agencies into others and to winnow 23 boards and commissions into 11, according to a proposed reorganization his office released Tuesday.
An early estimate by the Department of Planning and Budget pegs savings from the reforms at about $2 million a year.

McDonnell proposes axing two agencies — the Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority and the Board of Towing and Recovery Operators.
The proposal does not specify what would happen to employees of any of the agencies, but McDonnell spokesman Jeff Caldwell said Tuesday that “there will be efficiencies and staff reductions as a result of agency mergers, resulting in a savings for the taxpayers.”
“There may be some opportunities for staff transfers to the new, merged agency, but those details have not been finalized,” he said.
Some of the ideas McDonnell suggests spring from the ongoing work of his government reform and restructuring commission. Now in its second year, the panel made nearly 40 recommendations to the governor last week.
Del. Robert H. Brink, D-Arlington, who serves on the reform commission, said that in some cases, such as consolidating several social services agencies, the proposed action “cleans up the organization chart, but it’s not going to save any money because the back-office operations already are consolidated.”
“I think that’s typical of a lot of these recommendations,” he said of the commission’s list. “They really aren’t going to accomplish that much and even though the charge of the commission was to think big, I really don’t think there’s a lot of big thinking going on here.”
Part of that stems from having a state government that has been called the best-managed in the nation, he said. “You’re operating a pretty lean operation as it is.”
McDonnell also issued two executive directives to make changes administratively, ranging from looking at expanding a pilot program of a four-day, 10-hour work-week schedule to streamlining policy and paperwork requirements for state employee time, attendance and leave.
“This coming General Assembly session we intend to advance even bolder reforms to reduce waste and ensure that we are providing the best services to our citizens in the most fiscally responsible manner,” McDonnell said in a release.
The governor, who is in Orlando, Fla., through Thursday leading his first Republican Governors Association meeting, said the reforms he wants to advance “include eliminating two state agencies whose functions duplicate work already being done elsewhere.”
The agency mergers are intended to streamline the delivery of services, he said. He chose to collapse boards and commissions that duplicate efforts or if he found them to be “no longer an efficient use of state resources.”
Also, three professions would no longer be regulated by the state: hair braiders, mold inspectors and remediators, and interior designers.
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