Industry-Leading Truck Metrics Released Just in Time to Power 2025 Statewide and Regional Freight PlansSAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- StreetLight Data, Inc. (StreetLight), a subsidiary of Jacobs (NYSE: J) and the leading Big Data company providing insights into how people, goods, and services move, today launched its new Freight Planning product in collaboration with Altitude by Geotab. This offering accelerates and improves freight planning decisions with the industry's most robust truck activity data, available to StreetLight customers in minutes.Using StreetLight's leading machine learning and data science, along with Altitude by Geotab's comprehensive commercial vehicle movement dataset with privacy-first and validated data, the product delivers actionable insights for agencies, businesses, and planners to power critical decision-making around freight movement. The product includes aggregate truck volumes and congestion metrics for all major roads on an easy-to-use platform, saving time and ensuring precision with comprehensive coverage. It delivers rich analytics to understand the 'why' behind truck activity, with data by weight, industry, route type, and more.Available within the StreetLight InSight® application, planners can now contextualize truck activity with other modes of transportation, including personal vehicle, bike, and pedestrian metrics. The ability to compare the distribution of trucks to personal vehicles allows planners to see a more complete picture of travel patterns as an input for corridor planning, project prioritization, safety, signal timing, roadway design, and emissions modeling

"Active transportation mode data, specifically cycling and walking activity, have historically been hard to come by, which is why we are excited to be releasing this report," said Laura Schewel, StreetLight CEO and VP of Transportation Software at Jacobs. Post thisNational TrendsActive transportation (walking plus biking trips) accounted for 10% of trips in 2022, down from 14% in 2019. However, bicycle activity is increasing as a share of all trips, while pedestrian is decreasing as a share of all trips.Annual average daily walking trips in the U.S. declined by 36% nationally between 2019-2022, according to StreetLight, even as pedestrian fatalities trended up over the same period, based on the Governors Highway Safety Association Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State report.Walking is starting to stabilize nationally since 2021, with several metro areas seeing an increase in 2022. The increase is driven by the most dense, downtown areas of the country.The decline is sharper in places with more inclement weather. This may indicate that the reduction in overall pedestrian activity is largely a reduction in "utility trips" (e.g., walking to get lunch downtown during a workday), and less due to reduction in "recreational" trips such as going for a walk with friends.State TrendsEvery state saw walking activity decline between 2019-2022