Altitude by Geotab: Your ultimate partner for next-gen state freight planning

As you begin to develop your state freight plan, are you sure you have the right tools in place to make it a success? Increasingly, organizations are relying on data-driven insights to help identify where their transportation networks need work, craft new transportation strategies and measure results. At Altitude, we understand the unique needs of state freight planners, infrastructure consultants and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs). It’s led us to fill a void in the market as we reveal our Freight Planning Platform, a tailor-made solution for state freight planners.

This solution is specifically crafted to help agencies comply with federal mandates, smartly place new transportation infrastructure and make data-driven investments in freight corridors and truck parking areas. Read on to discover what’s new in our platform, how we’re partnering with key stakeholders to deliver relevant freight planning content to you and why our platform is an ideal fit for your state transportation strategy.

What’s new with Altitude?

This quarter, Altitude will be unfurling a variety of powerful updates to help you achieve your state freight plan objectives. Here are several of the most important enhancements that will help you develop a truly detailed and insights-driven transportation strategy.

Regional Travel Metrics (RTM) updates in the Altitude UI: Access vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and idling insights directly within Altitude’s user interface. This reliable, first-party data is anonymized and expanded to be representative of all commercial vehicles in a region, remaining segmentable by vehicle class. With RTM insights, justify funding in new projects, study congestion trends at a macro- or micro-level and smartly prioritize corridor enhancements.

Stop Analytics’ Hourly Parking Events: Take your commercial vehicle stop insights a step further with Hourly Parked Events. With this capability, explore not just where trucks are stopping, but also how long they’re stopping for. Surface real-world parking tendencies with deeper context to pinpoint where current capacity stands. Bolster your state freight strategy with insights that support NHFP-aligned parking plans.

Refreshed portal experience: We’re giving the Altitude platform a UX makeover! Welcome to smoother, more streamlined transportation insights. Enjoy sharper solution performance, improved filtering and streamlined workflows for zone-based reporting, vehicle filtering and corridor analyses.

Upcoming webinar: Future-ready freight planning awaits you

To help you optimize your state freight plan, we’re offering a free webinar on June 24, 2025 titled “Bottlenecks, Parking & Data-Driven Planning: Conquer Your Toughest State Freight Challenges with Altitude.” This engaging discussion will feature tips and insights from these subject-matter experts:

• Stephen Yoon, Freight Data and Performance Manager at Caltrans
• Eric Schmidt, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Altitude by Geotab
• Emily Porter, Senior Data Analyst at Altitude by Geotab

During this session, you’ll learn about:

• How Caltrans uses the Altitude API for AADT validation, truck counts and parking data analyses
• Unique ways our insights can help you justify funding, conduct effective parking analyses and streamline corridor studies
• What our recent Urban Freight Movement Benchmarking analysis revealed about supply chain and traffic trends

With state freight planning initiatives well underway and all the valuable information we will share at this event, this is a webinar you won’t want to skip out on! Make sure to register today by clicking here.

How Altitude is a cut above other freight planning platforms

The year 2025 is pivotal for state transportation plans. It’s time for a freight planning solution that’s up to the challenge. Altitude outperforms legacy planning tools of the past by offering deeper granularity, context and scalability, all with data privacy and compliance at the core of our solution. Here are just a few of the advantages that set our platform apart from others:

• Our RTM module surpasses other transportation data platforms by aggregating idling, VMT and AADT insights that you can scale to fit the objectives of your state freight plan. Gain comprehensive visibility into planning zones for a smarter, more detailed planning approach. RTM helps you modernize your region’s transportation networks and win more grants with a segmentable view of commercial vehicle movement.
• Altitude’s Stop Analytics product goes beyond consumer-centric, survey-driven insights by offering a more objective look at truck parking tendencies. Hourly Parking Events allow you to surface infrastructure deficiencies by seeing how long commercial vehicles are stopping for, not just where they’re stopping. Drive past unfounded presumptions with insights into real-world truck behaviors.
• The depth and breadth of our insights outperform those of GPS-only or independent modeling solutions. Allowing segmentation by vehicle class, type and vocation, Altitude doesn’t just show you the how: We show you the “why” behind commercial vehicle movement. Gain detailed, privacy-protected mobility insights that are aligned with federal requirements and supported by context. Bolster your freight plan, NHFP, statewide transportation improvement program (STIP) and EV corridor development initiatives with the power of Altitude.

How Altitude supports state freight planning initiatives

No matter the scope of your state freight plan, our solution has you covered: Altitude is built for a variety of freight planning use cases. Here are several examples of how our platform can underpin your 2025 transportation plan:

• Back up site selection projects with real-world evidence of commercial vehicle movement
• Reduce congestion and bottlenecks through insights-driven policy and infrastructure investment
• Help secure federal grant funding for state transportation projects with a data-driven freight plan
• Optimize goods movement with analytics that cover everything from long-haul trucking to last-mile delivery
• Advance sustainable transportation initiatives like electric vehicle (EV) charging station construction to support widespread truck electrification
• Expand truck parking availability with detailed insights that reveal how long trucks are stopped for and where
• Stay compliant with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)/NHFP requirements through privacy-protected, aggregated transportation data
• Conduct freight corridor benchmarking analyses and measure the effects of enacted policies or infrastructure changes
• Enhance regional disaster preparedness plans (including evacuation routes for commercial vehicles) to mitigate extreme weather’s potential effects on supply chains

More than just a transportation insights provider

Are you ready to take the next step in your state freight plan? At Altitude, we’d love to take the data-driven journey with you. By working with us, you get more than just access to a best-in-class freight planning platform. You’ll receive our ongoing support and a dedicated mobility insights partner to help you accomplish each of your freight plan’s goals. Reach out to us to learn more about how we can assist you with developing smarter strategies and meeting strategic transportation objectives.

Set up a consultation with one of our experts today to get started with Altitude.