Altitude by Geotab is a line of business and product under Geotab. that delivers aggregate, historical Commercial Movement Insights to support planning for roads, freight, safety and site selection. It serves public and commercial sector decision-makers through a secure web user interface and API.
Altitude is Geotab's commercial vehicle analytics platform, providing aggregate historical movement data via a secure web UI and API for transportation and infrastructure planning.
Altitude by Geotab offers reliable, contextualized mobility insights for public and commercial sectors. It provides aggregate, historical commercial vehicle movement data via a secure web UI and API to aid planning for roads, freight, safety, and site selection.
Altitude turns observed movement into aggregated, anonymized Commercial Movement Insights for planning. Through a privacy-first, PII-safe layer with minimum-count thresholds, it delivers planning-grade metrics, such as corridor usage, Origin and Destination patterns, travel-time distributions, and dwell near POIs. Outputs are historical and up-to-date at geographic or corridor levels (never for individual vehicles or customers). Explore insights in the Altitude platform UI, or integrate them via the API.
Use the UI for visualization and exploration; use the API for large-scale queries, recurring pulls, or accessing data not exposed in the UI.
While all UI insights come from the API, not all APIs are in the UI. For analysis needing immediate map visualization, tables, graphs, or exploratory data analysis, use the UI. Or, if you are unfamiliar with working with APIs, use the UI to run analysis. For repeated, similar queries, use the API programmatically. If integrating data into a data warehouse or merging datasets, the API is best.
We recommend using the Altitude API for the following use cases:
Harsh events
Modeled AADT by Road Segment
Fuel Economy Statistics by State, County, or City
Idle Metrics by Vehicle Years
Demand Generation
Speed Breakdowns by percentiles more specific than the 50th, 85th, and 95th percentiles
Stop Analysis breakdowns exceeding more than 10 percentiles
Returning road segments based on a posted speed limit of interest
Export data in a GeoJSON or ShapeFile format for ingestion to other platforms
Retrieving all zones around a defined point
Computationally heavy queries particularly those with rate limits
Origin/Destination analysis exceeding Altitude UI Number of Zones Limits
Queries that are geographically large in scope
We recommend using the Altitude UI for the following use cases:
For non-technical users not familiar with working with APIs who want to run analyses for Regional Travel Metrics, Traffic Analytics, Stop Analytics, or Origin/Destination modules
Importing of defined custom zones in a ShapeFile or GeoJSON format
Creating a zone manually around a single or few geographic zones of interest, especially where geographic parameters may not be well defined
Analysis requiring detailed map visualizations
Analysis which may need to be saved and retrieved on a regular basis
Analysis which may need to be shared and accessed across an organization
Altitude is for transportation planners, traffic engineers, government agencies, consultants, and commercial organizations that need commercial vehicle movement data for planning, research, and infrastructure decisions.
