Transportation funding is more competitive than ever, and even strong projects are being sidelined because they lack defensible freight evidence. Learn how to strengthen grant proposals with insights on vehicle intent, operational patterns and measurable outcomes tied to safety, mobility and economic performance. When planners can explain whether congestion is driven by local deliveries, last-mile activity or long-haul through traffic, funding narratives stand out.
This white paper explains the clear methodology behind Altitude by Geotab’s Vehicle Vocation taxonomy, a behavior-based approach that replaces guesswork with evidence.
Using unsupervised machine learning and Gaussian Mixture Models, Altitude analyzes real-world movement from millions of commercial vehicles to reveal why trucks are on the road. Vehicles are classified into five clear vocations—Local, Regional-Haul, Long-Haul, Hub-and-Spoke and Door-to-Door—based on transparent metrics like geographic range, stop behavior, domicile patterns and round-trip frequency. The result is stable, explainable insight that holds up across planning cycles and stands up to grant review.
Get the white paper to see how to quantify corridor needs with confidence, and clearly tie investments to outcomes reviewers care about.
Altitude by Geotab A Vehicle's Purpose Whitepaper
