Speed Limit Data

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.

Setting custom speed limits and editing invalid speeding events 

Motive enables fleet managers to use the speed limit editor and set custom speed limits for various road segments across North America. After setting these limits, speeding events will be generated based on the limits you’ve set.

Fleet admins and managers can also use the speed limit editor feature to report and update invalid speeding events when the vehicle's speed limit is not the same as highlighted by the system. They can add different speed limits, as the highlighted map on the right denotes that they can select/unselect different road segments to apply the override to. They can also set the expiration time for their speed limit to override for it to either be permanent, custom, or updated automatically when Motive receives a more accurate speed limit than what they’ve set.

1. Log in to the Fleet Dashboard and go to Safety > Speeding. 

2. Select an event with incorrect speeding details. 

   

3. From the Overview section, click EDIT to make changes to the speed limit.

   

   Note: This automatically creates a dispute for the current event and opens a map-based editor to edit the speed limit.

4. By default, all the road segments where speeding happened in the event are automatically selected. 
5. Edit Speed Limit fields, Name the speed limit overrides, and choose a Reason for better trackability.
6. Add Notes and Upload photo as evidence of the speed limit on the road.

7. Click Save. 

   

8. You are redirected to the event, and a prompt appears at the top confirming that Your custom speed limit has been created.

   

Note: Motive does not apply updated speed limits to historical events. The updated limits only apply to events moving forward.

Bulk enabling the regular speed limit

1. Log in to the Motive Fleet Dashboard and click the Admin icon. 
2. Click Vehicles.

3. Select one or more vehicles and click Edit.

   

4. Click Speed: Speed Limit.

   

5. Open the dropdown for Posted speed limits and select Regular Speed Limits. 

6. Click Save. 

   

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