In 2018, Fleet Vehicle Agency initiated a pilot project to use telematics in Yukon government's (YG) HPW. 262 telematics units are currently installed in pool and annual assigned vehicles. Now, for a variety of reasons including vehicle efficiency studies, fleet right-sizing and employee safety, FBA and TMB are expanding the program, likely in corporation with other YG fleet operations (like TMB's light-duty fleet and Wildland Fire's trucks).
The intention of the initiative is to install AVL (Automatic Vehicle Locators) or use OEM AVL that are included in new vehicles for HPW asset management.
The AVL system is GeoTab, which uses Google cloud servers for data storage and Canadian data storage is housed in Quebec. However, there is a plan moving forward of importing the data into geospatial data warehouse which will be handled by the YG-HPW-ICT. If that happens, appropriate update to the PIA will be conducted and an Information Management Service Agreement (IMSA) will be provided.
