Get Your "Yes" At Tackling The Challenges Of Fleet Modernization

Like it or not, the future is coming and you need to be ready for it. Yet you may not be the only one who has to say "yes" to improvements and adaptations. Get the "yes" you need by first taking part in the I&E session Tackling the Challenges of Fleet Modernization, on Tuesday, April 14.

This presentation highlights benefits and challenges of securing support for a major fleet modernization program, using the experience of the City of Baltimore (which is in the second year of such an undertaking), as a case study. Attendees will explore, among other things:

• The analyses that were performed to persuade senior City officials to approve the initiative
• The impact that a threefold increase in fleet replacement expenditures is having on the operations of the City’s Fleet Management Division
• The challenges of maintaining executive support for the program when promised fleet operating cost savings don’t materialize instantaneously

Baltimore is one of many "post-industrial" cities in the U.S. that face a wide array of structural service delivery and associated fiscal challenges. The fact that the City was sufficiently farsighted to decide to modernize its fleet when the far easier course of action would have been to ignore it in the face of much more pressing concerns is a story worth sharing with NAFA members.

At this session, you will learn the impact of vehicle total cost of ownership on fleet costs and performance levels, how to build a robust business case for structural changes to fleet management practices, the impact of alternative capital financing methods on the decision to modernize (or not modernize) a fleet, the operational implications of fleet modernization, and a whole lot more!

The future's coming. Be ready for it! Make the I&E session Tackling the Challenges of Fleet Modernization, on Tuesday, April 14, part of your itinerary!