Tennessee DOT Selects Geotab’s Altitude Platform for Freight and Mobility Insights

Source: PR Newswire Canada ↗

Fifteen rest areas in Tennessee are slated for capacity evaluations under a four-year statewide contract the Tennessee Department of Transportation awarded to Altitude by Geotab for freight and mobility analytics.

Procured through the Eastern Transportation Coalition (TETC), the agreement gives TDOT access to Altitude’s full suite of transportation data analytics modules covering commercial-vehicle origin-destination matrices, Vehicle Miles Traveled by vehicle class, and trip generation data for travel demand model calibration.

The contract also covers freight bottleneck analysis, specifically delay-minutes per truck by time of day at critical Tennessee interchanges, and segment flow origin-destination analysis along major corridors to establish pre-deployment baselines and measure post-construction impacts.

On the truck parking side, Altitude will evaluate dwell times, demand curves and capacity stress indicators across the 15 identified rest areas flagged for upgrades and potential new construction.

The agreement follows a separate Geotab deployment covering fleet management technology on TDOT’s operational state vehicles, extending the relationship between Geotab and Tennessee into transportation planning.

“Modernizing Tennessee’s transportation infrastructure requires precise, real-world data on commercial freight movements and traffic patterns across our key corridors,” said Dan Pallme, director of Passenger Transportation, Rail and Freight at the Tennessee Department of Transportation. “Altitude by Geotab delivers commercial vehicle origin-destination matrices, truck parking demand analytics, and corridor flow data at a level of granularity that will significantly enhance our Travel Demand Model calibration, freight bottleneck mitigation, and strategic corridor planning across the state.”