Speeding reports in MyGeotab

Speeding reports help you track and manage speeding in your fleet.

Monitoring speeding in your fleet helps you address risky driving behavior and pinpoint the drivers and vehicles most at risk.

You can monitor individual asset's speeding behavior using the Speed Profile, which analyzes a single asset at a time to provide in-depth data on the asset's speed relative to posted and estimated speed limits.

You can monitor speeding events throughout your fleet using the Speeding Events report, which tracks speeding using speed count and speed percentage to provide an overview of your drivers' speeding habits.

How speeding events are triggered

A speeding event triggers when vehicle speed exceeds the specified threshold over the posted speed limit.

The event ends when speed drops below the threshold.

Each separate instance of exceeding the threshold creates a new speeding event recorded for its duration.

Speed Profile

Learn how to use the Speed Profile feature to track vehicle speeds over time compared to the speed limit.

The Speed Profile feature is helpful for identifying speeding incidents, understanding driving behavior patterns, and analyzing the accuracy of speed data.

Note: The Speed Profile displays data for a single asset at a time.
Your asset's speed is mapped in a graph against the posted or estimated speed limit. The following colors are used to indicate speed:

  • Blue represents your asset's logged speed.

  • Red represents the recorded posted speed limit for a road segment.

  • Yellow represented the estimated speed limit for road segments without posted speed limits. Estimates are based on factors such as nearby known speed limits, the road's location, and speed limit laws.

Your asset's speed is mapped in a graph against the posted or estimated speed limit. The following colors are used to indicate speed:

  • Blue represents your asset's logged speed.

  • Red represents the explicit posted speed limit for a road segment.

  • Yellow represents an estimated speed limit for a road segment without a known posted speed. Estimates can come from HERE implicit limits or Geotab road-type estimates based on the road type, jurisdiction, nearby known speed limits, the road's location, and researched statutory defaults.

The Speed Profile feature showing a vehicle's speed compared to the speed limit during a single trip.

Viewing your Speed Profile

Learn how to view your Speed Profile to analyze speeding patterns in your fleet.

Note: The Speed Profile can only be viewed directly in MyGeotab. It is not available to download as a report.
Note: The All provider option uses available speed limit sources. Commercial uses HERE data, and Community uses OpenStreetMap data. Estimated limits can come from HERE implicit limits or Geotab road-type estimates.
  1. Navigate to Safety > Speed Profile in the main menu.
  3. Under Filters:
    1. Select a date range for your data.
    2. Select whether you want to include archived data.
    3. Select the asset you want to view speed data for.
    4. Select the road speed provider you want to use. The default option is All.
    5. Select whether you want to show truck speed limits.
    6. Click Apply.

Hover your cursor over the graph to view specific speed details for individual segments. Click and drag the graph to move your view left or right. When viewing multiple trips in the same graph, zoom in to increase the detail for specific trip segments.

Click View trips to view the associated trips displayed on the map.

Speeding Events Report

The Speeding Events report measures your fleets speeding count and speeding percentage.

Speeding count and speeding percentage are two key metrics to help you track speeding events in your fleet.

  • Speeding count is the number of times a vehicle went over the set speed limit in a certain period.

  • Speeding percentage is the percentage of total miles driven while speeding. For example, if a vehicle's speeding percentage is 10% and it drove 100 miles, it drove over the limit for 10 miles.

A high speeding count does not necessarily mean a high speeding percentage. For example, a driver could exceed the speed limit many times, but only for short durations. This would result in a high count but a low percentage.

The criteria for the Speeding Events report is set by your default speeding rule in your rule set. You can edit the conditions of this rule to more accurately track speeding events according to your fleet's needs.

Viewing the Speeding Events Report

Learn how to view the Speeding Events report to track speeding events in your fleet.

  1. Navigate to Safety > Risk Management in the main menu.
  3. Under Filters:
    1. Select a date range for your data.
    2. Select whether you want to view your report by Asset or Driver.
    3. Select whether you want to hide zero distance rows.
    4. Select how you want to run the report.
    5. Select whether you want to include dismissed events.
    6. Click Apply.
  4. View the report in the format of your choice:
    1. Click Reports > Speeding Events to download the report as an Excel file.
    2. Click Reports > Speeding Events More Actions Menu > Prepare PDF to download a PDF copy of the report.

Depending on the size of your report, it may take some time to generate. Navigate to Reports > My Reports to view its status.

How Geotab determines speed limits

Learn how MyGeotab selects speed limit data for road segments and how overrides, OpenStreetMap, HERE, and estimates affect speeding rules.

Geotab incorporates speed limit data from multiple sources. The source applied to a road segment depends on data availability and how the speeding rule is configured.

Geotab uses permanent posted speed limits. Advisory, temporary, and variable limits, such as construction-zone or school-zone limits, are not used.

Data sources and priority

When a speeding rule evaluates a road segment, Geotab applies the first available source in this order:

Table 1. Speed limit data sources
PrioritySource
1Customer override
2OpenStreetMap explicit limits (Community)
3HERE Maps explicit limits (Commercial)
4HERE Maps implicit limits (Estimates)
5Geotab road-type estimate (Estimates)

Source descriptions

The following sections describe each speed limit data source.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a global, open geospatial mapping platform. OpenStreetMap data is updated in Geotab quarterly. Corrections submitted to OpenStreetMap are picked up in a future quarterly Map Server update rather than applied immediately.

You can correct or add speed limit data directly in OpenStreetMap. If a new or missing road needs to be added, or if road segments need to be split or combined, make those changes in OpenStreetMap.

HERE Maps explicit limits

HERE provides commercial map and speed limit data. HERE explicit limits are based on evidence of a posted speed limit sign. HERE data is refreshed quarterly on the same schedule as OpenStreetMap.

HERE Maps implicit limits

Where HERE does not have evidence of a posted sign, it derives a limit from statutory defaults for the road class and jurisdiction. Geotab applies a small upward adjustment to these implicit limits to reduce false speeding events caused by statutory values that are lower than the practical road speed.

Geotab road-type estimates

Where neither an OpenStreetMap nor a HERE explicit limit is available, Geotab can apply an estimate based on existing road type categorization, jurisdiction, and researched statutory defaults. These are estimates, not verified posted limits.

For the United States and Canada, these estimates are maintained at the state and province/territory level. Geotab also updates them when changes are identified through ongoing research and customer and partner feedback.

Customer overrides

When a road segment shows an incorrect speed limit, you can create an override directly in MyGeotab. Overrides take precedence over all other data sources.

  • The corrected limit is visible in MyGeotab immediately.

  • Backend speeding calculations may continue using the previous value for up to 48 hours because of data caching.

  • Overrides apply across all MyGeotab databases, not only your own.

  • Overrides do not apply to speeding rules configured to use HERE data only.

For corrections to OpenStreetMap-sourced limits that should be reflected in the underlying map data, submit the change in OpenStreetMap. The correction flows into a future quarterly MyGeotab data update.