The economic, environment and social costs of urban congestion impacting our cities are huge. While the causes of urban congestion are complex, there are two factors that are increasing prevalent in the Australia market:
Increased Demand—Increasing city populations and increased delivery volumes with the prevalence of online shopping are leading to more vehicles, making more deliveries to more locations.
Reduced Access—At the same time, and especially post-Covid, cities are continuing to reimagine themselves by removing commercial loading zones from the street in favour of wider footpaths, cycleways and kerbside dining—making it harder for commercial deliveries to be made.
Mobiledock manages these competing requirements and solves the problem of urban congestion by finding the best way to schedule deliveries into a wide range of commercial and industrial locations.
It provides locations with the same benefits that air traffic control provides airports.
It delivers operational efficiency while at the same time providing environmental, social and governance outcomes for the site’s community.
Mobiledock connects each location—with their community of tenants, suppliers, carriers, drivers and others who require access to the loading docks.
We have empowered and connected thousands of these connections with their destinations through an easy-to-use web application.
We have made it easy for all community members to book and manage their appointments through the Mobiledock booking wizard. The unique QR code and PIN code generated with each approval becomes their entry ticket to the site.
Mobiledock’s customers benefit from the innovative and highly configurable rules engine that enables them to build and maintain site specific rules.
Mobiledock has also been designed to connect and take full advantage of other applications through a comprehensive set of public APIs.
We connect with a wide range of applications including access-control technologies (boom gates, license plate recognition and signs), contractor induction, building-management systems and site concierge apps.
Mobiledock is used at a wide range of commercial and industrial locations including office buildings, mixed-use developments, shopping centres, hotels, conference and entertainment venues, hospitals, airports, multi-party warehouses and distribution centres.
Mobiledock can be used throughout the location’s lifecycle from the design and planning phase by providing informed decisions on the optimal dock space required based on sites expected mix of tenants, through the construction and fitout phases and during ongoing operations.
Mobiledock delivers benefits to each of our customers as they look to optimise the performance of their sites.
Eliminates congestion—through the intelligent scheduling of inbound or outbound deliveries to match the requirements of the site.
Reduces costs—through the better matching of dock resourcing to meet the site's demand, the automation of functions and by assisting with better planning decisions on how many docks are needed at new locations.
Improves operational efficiency—providing greater throughput of loading docks, with the automation of functions and integration to related systems
Improves environment outcomes—by reducing the incidence of trucks idling, or circling locations trying to find a parking space. It allows carriers to schedule multiple deliveries to locations on the same vehicle reducing the numbers of vehicles required.
Improves social outcomes—by connecting a site’s community of tenants, their suppliers, carriers and their drivers. All parties connected to a delivery can be notified in real time on the status of the delivery, streamlining communications. The reduction in congestion improves the site’s amenity, safety and security.
Improves governance, security and safety outcomes—by allowing the site to pre-approve who is allowed to make deliveries to their docks and provides visibility of what’s going to happen next on site.
Start doing more with less; find out how Mobiledock can deliver these benefits and more for your location.
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