Speed limit data is key to detecting speeding violations and ensuring compliance. This article explains how Motive collects, updates, and applies speed limit information, and how fleet managers can manage or dispute these records.
Overview
Motive uses a reliable, regularly updated speed limit database to power its speeding detection and compliance features. This ensures your fleet stays safe and complies with speed regulations.
- Reliable data source: Motive partners with HereMaps for accurate speed limit data, including both regular and truck speed limits worldwide.
- Regular updates: HereMaps updates the speed limit data regularly, and Motive integrates these updates every quarter to maintain accuracy.
- Configurable speed detection: Fleet managers can select the speed limit type (regular or truck) for vehicles, tailoring speed limit detection to fleet needs.
- Custom dispute tools: Users can customize or dispute speed limits for specific road segments directly within Motive.
Regular vs. truck speed limits
Motive distinguishes between regular and truck speed limits to accommodate different vehicle types. This ensures that both passenger vehicles and commercial trucks are monitored correctly.
- Regular speed limits: These are the standard posted limits for passenger vehicles.
- Truck speed limits: Lower limits are designed for commercial vehicles to enhance safety.
- Customizable: Fleet managers can choose between regular or truck limits for speed violation detection.
- Default settings: If truck limits are unavailable, Motive defaults to regular speed limits for all vehicles.
Comparing speed limits
Motive compares vehicle speed with the relevant speed limit to detect and alert speeding events. Fleet admins can customize thresholds to better align with the fleet’s policies.
- GPS comparison: Vehicle speed is compared with the applicable speed limit based on location.
- Customizable thresholds: Fleet admins can adjust how much over the limit a vehicle must exceed and for how long.
- Real-time alerts: Instant notifications for speeding incidents.
- In-cab alerts: Drivers are warned immediately when they exceed speed limits.
Disputing speed limits
Motive provides several tools for fleet managers to manage and dispute speed limits, ensuring the data is accurate and customized for your fleet's needs.
- Dispute process: Fleet managers can dispute incorrect speed limits directly through the Fleet Dashboard.
- Speed limit editor: Suggest custom corrections for road segments and upload supporting evidence.
- Custom limits: Set specific speed limits for particular roads to override the default. Once you create a custom speed limit, Motive shares this information with Here Maps. Here Maps verifies the update using evidence provided by you in the speed limit edit, such as speed signboards or public data sources and publishes the updated speed limit in it's next release.
- Expiration settings: Custom limits can be set to expire automatically when new limits are available.
FAQs
How often is Motive’s speed limit data updated?
Motive updates its speed limit database quarterly, based on HereMaps data.
Can I select which speed limit type applies to my fleet?
Yes. Fleet managers can choose between regular or truck speed limits for violation detection.
What happens if there’s no truck speed limit for a road?
If no truck speed limit exists, Motive will default to the regular speed limit for all vehicles.
How can I report an incorrect speed limit?
Fleet managers can dispute incorrect speed limits and propose corrections using the speed limit editor in the Fleet Dashboard.
How does Motive handle evidence when disputing speed limits?
Uploading evidence, such as photos of road signs, is encouraged and helps increase the likelihood of corrections being accepted by HereMaps.
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