Why mobility operators are investing in fleet management technology in 2025

Fleet management technology changing rapidly, and so is its impact. It’s enabling new levels of performance, transparency, and growth. From ride-hailing and delivery to car-sharing and logistics, intelligent fleet optimization is about bringing agility and growth at scale.

The inDrive-Autofleet partnership, with Autofleet as part of Element Mobility, reflects this broader shift toward intelligent fleet management and optimization. As mobility models evolve, success depends on operational fleet excellence. This partnership brings the power of intelligent fleet management to inDrive's unique mobility model.

Three key opportunities for fleet excellence

When we talk about "operational fleet excellence," we're describing the capability to manage fleet operations—from vehicles and drivers to routes, maintenance, and partners—while maintaining visibility, control, and optimization across diverse markets and use cases.

1. Real-time visibility across operations. When you're managing fleets across multiple cities, service types, or business models, you need seamless data synchronization. Every trip, every vehicle, every driver or delivery needs to feed into systems that give you a complete operational picture. Whether you're optimizing delivery routes or rebalancing shared vehicles, without real-time insights, you lose the ability to respond to dynamic market conditions. Fleet management technology creates an integrated operational view that enables smarter, faster decisions. 

2. Actionable insights that drive actions and performance. Data alone isn't enough. Fleet leaders need detailed reports, performance tracking, and analytics that transform raw information into decisions and actions.

You need to know:

• Which vehicles are underperforming?

• Where are maintenance issues emerging?

• Which routes optimize utilization?

• How do changing conditions, such as weather, traffic, and events, impact delivery times versus ride-hailing demand?

These insights separate efficient operations from chaotic ones across every mobility vertical. 

3. Scalability without complexity. Growth is the goal, but adding new markets, service lines, vehicles, or fleet partners shouldn't exponentially increase your operational burden. Intelligent fleet management means your systems grow smoothly. From expanding your car-sharing footprint into new cities to launching delivery alongside ride-hailing or integrating autonomous vehicles into existing fleets, scalability should be seamless.

The strategic advantage of fleet intelligence

What we're seeing across the mobility sector is a recognition that the right fleet management solution can be a competitive differentiator.

Operators that invest in intelligent fleet management gain tangible advantages:

• Higher service reliability through better vehicle and driver management. This is crucial for both 30-minute delivery promises and 5-minute pickup times.

• Improved unit economics via optimized utilization and reduced operational waste across all asset types. 

• Faster expansion into new markets or service lines with proven operational frameworks that adapt to different mobility models. 

• Enhanced partner satisfaction by giving fleet operators the tools they need to succeed. 

• Data-driven decision making that replaces guesswork with insights, from route optimization to predictive maintenance to demand forecasting. 

These advantages only compound over time.

Looking forward

At Autofleet, part of Element Mobility, we're seeing this transformation accelerate across every mobility vertical.

As Arsen Tomsky, founder and CEO of inDrive, put it: "This partnership is about more than connecting drivers and riders. It's about optimizing the way transportation is managed behind the scenes to deliver better, more reliable service for everyone."

While the mobility landscape grows more competitive, the gap between operators with sophisticated fleet management technology and those without will only widen. The time to build this advantage is now.