The World Has Changed
The post-pandemic landscape brought about a rapid shift in behavioral changes, driven by the adoption of more flexible work-from-home and hybrid policies. The net effect? A surge in popularity of usage-based and distance-based insurance programs as policyholders demand more control over their insurance and the premiums they pay.
However, the majority of distance-based programs in market (PAYD) are limited and only track actual mileage/kilometers traveled, but do not factor in safe driving behaviors like distracted driving.
Distance-based insurance programs, often referred to as Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD), are regaining traction with insurers who are looking not only to compete, but thrive, in developing innovative insurance telematics offerings in a mature market.
Benefits
Mileage-Based/Kilometer-Based Insurance Solutions Powered by Telematics offer auto insurers a number of benefits, including:
Introducing our IMS Diatance-Based UBI Solution
Our distance usage-based insurance offering provides a fully immersive policyholder experience that leverages our IMS OneAppTM mobile telematics platform. The industry-leading app solution for engaging policyholders and proven to influence policyholder driving behavior.
Further, to support accurate distance capture, it provides two optional approaches:
- Works with plug & play OBD-II hardware
- Via trip capture data provided by a third party for hardware-less approach.

Only IMS provides the first mileage-based UBI product offering with a user-centric focus to enable accurate mileage capture with the added-value of engagement, including:
Features & Benefits
Features
- Full trip collection accuracy
- Frictionless experience – no Bluetooth pairing required
- Full engagement suite of optional features such as coaching, rewards, right-time messaging
- App claims data – test & learn by correlating mileage driven to relative risk using actual claims data
Benefits
- Only UBI offering on the market proven to improve driving behavior and your claims loss ratio
- Solves profitability challenges in high premium, low mileage segment
- Offers an affordable solution for short distance drivers (an attractive option for agents to offer policyholders)
- Addresses affordability challenges via policy options
- New customer acquisition (attracts short distance/low risk drivers away from competitors)

Mileage-based Programs (also referenced as):
- PAYG or Pay as you Go
- PAYD or Pay as you Drive
- On-demand
- Pre-paid
- Post-paid
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