Through our cross-border freight and port activity tracker, we cut through the complexity, offering clear, real-world insights into unfolding trends. By monitoring granular changes in HDV operations at these key trade nexuses, we empower businesses to better anticipate challenges, seize opportunities and navigate geopolitical influences on North American freight movement.
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is expanding the parking capacity from six to 18 spaces, recognizing the high demand and overflow parking issues. Analysis shows a significant portion of trucks park in overflow areas, and most long-duration stops occur at night when capacity is constrained. The author emphasizes that understanding stop duration and time-of-day behavior is crucial for planning infrastructure upgrades, not just stop counts. The post advocates for using stop-level insights to predict demand, improve safety, and optimize freight networks.
Discover the key features of a freight planning tool and how it can support freight planning initiatives. Explore the value of Altitude by Geotab for supply chain optimization. Using a freight planning tool, you can simplify the process of developing and updating your state freight plan with the power of data. Freight planning solutions, such as a transportation analytics platform like Altitude, make strategizing easier by helping surface transportation inefficiencies and guiding your action plans to solve them. Learn more about how Altitude’s Origin & Destination module provides unprecedented granularity, showing in aggregate where most commercial vehicles are coming from and ending their routes, regardless of stops along the way.
For petroleum and gas companies, choosing the right location for their next opportunity can make or break their investment. In this piece, we’ll highlight how Altitude’s aggregated commercial transportation insights can help you select the best location for your next truck stop, convenience store or commercial refueling station.
We used connected commercial vehicle data from Altitude by Geotab to understand the implications of new tariffs on freight movement between the U.S. and Canada.
The “Trucking Electrification Report” analyzes the potential for trucking electrification in the United States using commercial vehicle insights. It explores factors like emissions, policy, and the current market state, and uses Altitude by Geotab data to determine the feasibility of replacing internal combustion engine trucks with electric vehicles. The report finds that a significant percentage of medium and heavy-duty trucks could be electrified based on their current driving patterns and explores potential charging infrastructure locations.
Altitude’s Harsh Events insights empower transportation planners to analyze driving behaviors like sharp turns, sudden stops, and rapid acceleration. By understanding these ‘harsh events’, planners can pinpoint high-risk areas, optimize traffic flow, and improve infrastructure, ultimately leading to enhanced highway safety and achieving Vision Zero goals.
