New Study Reveals State-by-State Safety Benchmarks: Altitude by Geotab Presents Insights at TRB 2025

Washington, DC – (January 2, 2025) – Altitude by Geotab, formerly Geotab ITS, has released a groundbreaking study revealing the states with the highest roadway safety risks based on harsh driving events like braking, acceleration, and cornering. These benchmarks empower infrastructure planners to prioritize safety investments with data-driven precision. Altitude will showcase these findings alongside its rebranded platform at the TRB Annual Meeting, January 5–9, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Key Findings: Roadway Safety Benchmarks

• The study analyzed “harsh events” — instances of harsh braking, acceleration, or cornering — per million miles across all 50 U.S. states.
• West Virginia and Alaska reported the highest rates of harsh events for heavy-duty trucks, with over 80,000 incidents per million miles.
• Illinois and Nebraska demonstrated some of the safest roadways, with fewer than 2,000 harsh events per million miles for light-duty trucks.
• Peak hours for harsh events occurred during 7 AM to 9 AM, underscoring trends linked to driver congestion and commute times.

These insights provide state and local planners with clear benchmarks to identify risk hotspots, allocate resources effectively, and improve roadway safety outcomes — just one example of how the Altitude platform empowers transportation infrastructure planners to tackle a wide range of challenges with data-driven precision.

Visit Altitude by Geotab at booth #1203 to explore our state-by-state road safety benchmarks and learn how connected vehicle data can optimize infrastructure planning. Don’t miss Shweta Shah’s session, ‘Autonomous and Connected Trucks: Generating Actionable Safety Insights,’ on January 7, 2025, where she will discuss how harmonized data transforms freight mobility planning.

Altitude is launching it’s new white paper, “Our Digital Privacy and Trust Pact,” which outlines how mobility data insights are generated with privacy-first principles. “Privacy-first principles will define mobility data used in infrastructure planning,” said Shweta Shah, AVP Product & Engineering. “Providers embracing privacy-by-design principles lead the way in building trust and delivering actionable, anonymized insights.” With this commitment, Altitude ensures decision-makers have the privacy-protected insights they need to create safer, smarter transportation systems.