Our company, Autotrip was founded by Sustainable Ventures, one of UK’s leading cleantech incubators, and has not stopped growing since then: we have seen two successful rounds of crowdfunding and have been supported by the UK Government’s Innovate award and the European Commission through its H2020 programme. Our performance has also led us to be nominated by Cleantech Innovate as one the UK’s top 40 Cleantech businesses. In Autotrip we have made sure that our team’s skills and knowledge cover all the aspects of a contemporary digital-based company (business and product development, data management and analysis, SW and HW deployment) and we firmly believe that counting on a multidisciplinary and engaged team can multiply the success of our projects.
Business mobility/travel management has always implied a challenge for enterprises working at international level but nowadays it has become a must even for small domestic firms: travel for business grew in Europe at a higher rate than expected in 2015. Many companies externalize the travel management services to travel agencies, car rental firms, etc. but frequently need an internal team to manage the additional documentation and data generated in these processes. For companies whose employees travel by road fleet management constitutes a complex task to deal with, due to the different nature of the actors involved (customer, fleet owner, maintenance service, car rental, etc.), international compliance in some cases or the fact that vehicles are frequently used for professional and personal trips simultaneously. Current regulations do not facilitate this management either: enterprises may be asked for evidence of their trips -fuel consumption, mileage and costs- in financial and tax audits and, in case of noncompliance, they should face important fines (up to 23000€/per driver). Accountancy and Sustainability departments claim urgently for easy-to-use tools focused on the end user to simplify the management of mileage expenses claims, fuel consumption bills and tax and CO2 emission reports.
Smartrip is an innovative Business-to-Business and Business-to-Customer service which consists of an intelligent fleet management system for light vehicles based on a self-install GPS device and cloud-based software. Our aim is to help companies simplify travel management processes, reduce mileage related vehicle fleet costs up to 35% and obtain a higher efficiency of the core business areas; concerning individual drivers, Smartrip removes the difficulty of having to record and prove business journeys and offers them an intuitive tool carefully designed for the best user experience.
