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Severe Weather Events on Live Map

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By leveraging National Weather Service data, Motive provides fleet users with real-time visibility of severe weather events on the Live Map. This integration allows for the immediate identification of affected drivers and vehicles and facilitates the delivery of targeted broadcast messages to those in impact zones.

Overview

Severe Weather Alerts bring weather events into the same Live Map surface you already use to monitor drivers, vehicles, and assets. Key features include:

  • Live map visualization: Severe and extreme weather events are drawn as colored polygons on the Live map with a type-based legend.
  • Event details: Click a weather event polygon to see severity, start and end times, and the number of drivers, vehicles, and assets inside the impact area.
  • Targeted broadcast: Send a pre-filled message to just the drivers inside an event's polygon, directly from the event details view.

Viewing weather events on the Live map

Weather events from severe and extreme categories are drawn automatically on the Live map. Motive groups related alert polygons from the weather data provider into a single weather event so that one storm system appears as one outline, not dozens of overlapping shapes.

  1. Log in to the Fleet Dashboard.
  2. Click Fleet View in the left navigation, and make sure the Live tab is selected.
  3. Click Weather Events layer in the Map layer options
  4. Weather event polygons appear over the impacted area, colored by event type. Use the Legend control in the lower-right of the map to review the color-to-type mapping.
  1. Hover over a polygon to see a tooltip with the weather event type and to highlight the event boundary on the map.
Note: The map shows weather events across all fleets, not only those that currently impact your entities. A polygon may cover drivers or vehicles that move into the area later in the event window.

Opening an event summary

  1. Click a weather event polygon on the map. The view zooms in to center the polygon, and an event summary card appears.
  2. Review the summary card. It shows the weather event name, Severity, Start and End times, and counts of the Drivers, Vehicles, and Assets inside the polygon.
  3. Use the entity list on the left to identify the specific drivers and vehicles inside the polygon.
  1. Click View details on the summary card to open the full event details view. Only the selected weather event's polygon remains visible on the map.
  1. To return to all weather events on the Live map, close the event details view.

Broadcasting a message to impacted drivers

From the event details view, you can send a broadcast message to the drivers inside the weather event polygon. Motive pre-fills the message with event-aware language that you can edit before sending.

To send a broadcast from the event details view

  1. Open a weather event in the event details view as described above.
  2. Click the Message drivers button in the details panel. The drivers inside the polygon are added as recipients automatically. Click Next.
  1. Review the pre-filled message. Edit the subject and body to match your fleet's communication style or to add site-specific instructions.
  1. Click Send. The broadcast appears in the Messages section of the Fleet Dashboard and is delivered to the selected drivers in the Driver App.
Note: If a broadcast has already been sent for the same weather event by another user, Fleet View prompts you to reuse that broadcast so that drivers are not messaged twice. You can still add recipients or rename the broadcast before sending.


 

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