GT3 Benefits for Car Service Providers

GT3 offers ground transportation providers a comprehensive back-office software system, Odyssey™, to manage Network Providers, Limousine, Executive Sedan or Taxi/ASAP service. This Windows-based technology enables providers to link directly to the same automation systems used by travel agencies, thus providing the most cost-effective way to connect to your customers. In addition, GT3’s online solutions can help you grow your business by reducing errors and providing access to new customers at a fraction of the costs associated with manual systems.

Odyssey™

Odyssey™ is a dynamic Windows-based application culminating from 15 years of experience with over 400 clients. The application draws upon the best technology practices of its predecessors, CARS™ and LimoWare™, and addresses the extensive and dynamic requirements of the ground transportation industry.

Odyssey fully integrates reservation, dispatch and accounting in one management system, improving each aspect of your business with extensive benefits:

• Cost reduction
• Improve productivity
• Growth in market share
• Customer retention
• Reduce billing cycle-time
• Error reduction

Odyssey™ is available in single or multi-user configurations, providing fully integrated Reservations, Dispatching, and Accounting.  Odyssey™ can be scaled to incorporate the following enhanced modules:

• Automatic flight updates and validation of flight information
• Online credit card authorization and settlement
• Local or National Geodata for address level validation
• Mapping for directions or car location with GPS
• Paging reservation details or messages to alphanumeric pagers or email enabled phones
• Real-time reservations from websites, agencies and automated reservations from travel systems like Apollo, Sabre, Worldspan and e-Travel
• 2-way mobile data communications for tracking driver and ride status with integrated GPS location
• Credit card swipe with signature capture and printed receipt
• Email/Fax Server for automatic confirmations, ride receipts and invoices
• Customized MIS report generator and server
• Web reporting services for real-time access to their current, past and future client ride/invoice data
• Electronic farm-in/out capability with real-time ride status reporting capabilities
• Image processing capabilities for ride vouchers and driver trip sheets
• Shuttle/Share Ride for managing vehicles with multiple riders and charges
• Event/Group management provides related trips to events or groups
• Affiliate Management for sending and receiving data, statements and profit reporting
• Automated Dispatch integrated with mobile data terminals or Java enabled devices
• Custom billing templates with billing formats
• Integrated Voice Response (IVR) applications for automated reservations and confirmations

Odyssey is built on easy-to-use cutting-edge technology, with "mouse-less" reservation entry, auto-capitalization, "Enter" key movement, type-ahead lookups, and intelligent information placement. Drag-and-Drop Dispatch coupled with a Visual Dispatch Schedule make it extremely simple for a dispatcher to get a snapshot of the day by driver or by vehicle. The Flight Match Dispatch system matches pick-ups and drop-offs from each airport.

To view a demonstration on CD of Odyssey, please email us at sales@groundtravel.com

GT3-Online™

GT3-Online™ is a set of powerful Internet-based solutions for service providers that allow their corporate and retail clients to make reservations online. GT3’s real-time interface allows clients to send reservations directly to your system for instant confirmations including your authentic confirmation number, rate, airport meeting instructions and pick-up time. GT3-Online features a customized user friendly booking environment with either a one-page or wizard-oriented booking process.

GT3-Online includes real-time reservations, reservation status, flight status reporting, passenger profiles, and frequent ride templates. GT3-Online allows your customers to review open and closed trips including all charges. Customers can print receipts online without having to call your accounting department. GT3-Online can be hosted by GT3, at your location or your client’s corporate intranet.

TranspoNet™

TranspoNet™ is a patented reservation transmission technology interface that allows a ground transportation provider to electronically transmit and receive reservations.

You can elect to send or receive reservations through TranspoNet several ways:

• Automated interface direct into your back-office system — GT3 supports interfaces to the major back-office packages, such as Aleph
• Custom interfaces through file-based FTP or HTTP interfaces
• Browser-based reservation tools that allow you to review and accept reservations automatically

Affiliate-Link™

GT3’s Affiliate-Link™ allows providers to transmit reservations electronically using TranspoNet™, an interactive, real-time reservation processing system specifically designed for the ground transportation industry.

TranspoNet is the first and only service of its kind in the world today which enables ground transportation providers to electronically communicate with each other. TranspoNet leverages the technology of the Internet to enable ground transportation providers all over the world to submit reservations to affiliates in other cities and receive reservations from their affiliate network. TranspoNet serves as a cost effective solution for managing an affiliate network, tracking of remote reservations, receiving real-time ground transportation information, billing/account reconciliation’s and other benefits.

GDSConnect™ (Saturn™)

GT3’s GDSConnect™ allows travel agents to process new, changed and cancelled reservations directly into Odyssey™. Why would travel agents choose to be on the phone calling multiple car service providers to determine cost and availability, when they can book service in only 20 seconds with GDSConnect?

Benefits for Providers through GDSConnect:

• Integrates car service bookings with the GDS itinerary at point of sale, eliminating the need for phone calls
• Confirms back into the PNR segment with the your company name, 800 number, pickup place/drop-off place, meeting instructions confirmation number, and pick-up time
• Promotes information accuracy and productivity by reading data directly from the passenger profile, flight and hotel segments
• Reduces costs related to the car service reservation process, such as staff, inbound calls, fax and customer service expense