USDOT signs on as a customer of SONAR’s high frequency data

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has awarded a declaration to FreightWaves SONAR to supply high-frequency freight marketplace information successful enactment of national proscription investigation and economical research, SONAR announced Wednesday.

SONAR's information volition assistance show freight marketplace health, pass regulatory enforcement, and proviso timely insights to the Department's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology.

USDOT has made strengthening oversight of the nation's proscription and proviso concatenation networks a apical priority, with renewed absorption connected the safety, security, and resilience of freight question nationwide.

Through this contract, USDOT volition incorporated SONAR datasets and freight marketplace indicators to amended visibility into freight activity, marketplace dynamics, and proviso concatenation conditions crossed the United States.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology works astatine the dynamic intersection of caller and emerging technologies, proscription data, policy, probe and each modes of proscription crossed the Department. With SONAR's aggregated and anonymized freight marketplace information — covering truckload, intermodal, ocean, and aerial cargo enactment — USDOT tin present real-time discourse connected however freight moves done the U.S. economy.

"As we proceed to modernize our processes successful the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, it is captious that the USDOT person entree to the astir robust and existent information sources," Lee White, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology astatine USDOT said successful a prepared statement. "Our statement with SONAR is different measurement we are taking connected our travel to modernize our systems present astatine the USDOT."

The collaboration reflects a increasing designation of the worth that real-time, market-based freight signals tin adhd alongside accepted proscription and economical datasets. SONAR's level captures regular freight marketplace enactment astatine the constituent of booking and procurement, providing earlier visibility into shifts successful proscription demand, web utilization, and capableness conditions crossed the freight ecosystem.

Supporting Data-Driven Transportation Policy and Industry Transparency

USDOT has placed expanding accent connected roadway safety, fraud prevention, proviso concatenation resiliency, and greater transparency crossed the trucking industry. Access to timely freight marketplace accusation offers further operational discourse astir changing marketplace conditions, bearer utilization trends, and freight web activity.

The collaboration with Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology comes arsenic proscription stakeholders successful some the nationalist and backstage sectors proceed to prioritize: