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of fuel by the end of the year. e rm already saved 3 million gallons of fuel
in a 2010–2012 pilot rollout. e company estimates it can save $50 million
per year by shaving onemile from each driver’s route. Aside from the cost
savings, the program will also enable the company to better time deliveries
for the roughly 6 million members of the UPS MyChoice program.
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Now, ORION uses 250 million address data points, map data, historical
GPS data for similar routes, and package data, all being run on an algo-
rithm, which is the equivalent of 1000 pages. e average route features
200,000 routing possibilities. Even though ...