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Executive Summary

A leading freight operator in France, managing over 1000 professional drivers, aimed to tackle rising safety risks from harsh braking and tailgating. Despite using Samsara for telematics, the team lacked the ability to spot behavioral trends over time or act proactively.

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By integrating Vianova’s Intelligence Platform directly into their telematics API, the operator was able to detect patterns at the road and driver level—transforming raw driving data into targeted safety interventions.

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Mission: Improve Road Safety and Operational Efficiency

The operator launched a 2025 campaign to reduce road risk across its commercial fleet, with a focus on harsh braking and tailgating behaviors. While they already used Samsara for telematics, they needed a smarter way to extract meaningful patterns—at the driver and route level—and translate those into operational improvements.

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• 🚨 Identify high-risk drivers across their fleet.

• 📍 Uncover safety hotspots on delivery routes.

• 🎯 Enable targeted Driver coaching based on data-backed insights.

• ⛽ Reduce fuel costs and improve overall driving efficiency.

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The Challenge

Despite collecting thousands of safety events through their existing telematics system, the operator lacked visibility into who, where, and when risky behaviors were happening. They needed a way to cut through the noise, prioritize interventions, and prove the impact of their efforts—without overburdening the Driver operations team.

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• 🚧 No way to track risky behavior over time by driver.
  

• 📊 Large volumes of raw data but no usable insights.
  

• 🛣️ Inability to localize and prioritize safety issues to specific roads or depots.

• 🧰 Limited tools to support behavioral change among drivers.

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The Solution

Vianova integrated seamlessly with the operator’s telematics provider via API, enriching raw data with road context, temporal trends, and driver profiling. This enabled the team to identify high-risk drivers, flag hotspot zones, and generate automated reports that informed both coaching strategies and internal alignment.

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• 🚗 Driver-level Risk Safety scores based on enriched event data.

• ⚠️ Road-level analysis of safety incident density.

• 📊 Trend dashboards by time of day, driver, and zone.

• 📝 Safety reports with actionable insights for fleet managers.

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Results: Focused Interventions, Measurable Impact

In just a few weeks, the team discovered that 7 drivers were responsible for around 65% of all dangerous driving incidents. By targeting interventions to this small group, they reduced high-risk behavior by 30%, improved fuel efficiency, and strengthened their position in insurer negotiations—all without adding new hardware or processes.

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Most importantly, these improvements translated into increased operational uptime on the road and helped reduce insurance and claim costs—directly supporting the fleet’s business goals.

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• 🔎 Discovered only 7 drivers (out of more than 200 in the Paris region) were responsible for ~65% of all flagged safety incidents.

• 📉 Dangerous driving behaviors dropped by 30% following targeted coaching.

• 📍 Over 10 safety hotspot zones flagged for routing adjustments.

• 🤝 Improved transparency helped open new conversations with insurers.

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About Vianova

Vianova is the data analytics solution to operate the mobility world. Our platform harnesses the power of connected vehicles and IoT data, to provide actionable insights to plan for safer, greener, and more efficient transportation infrastructures.

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From enabling regulation of shared mobility to transforming last-mile deliveries, and mapping road risk hotspots, Vianova serves 150+ cities, fleet operators, and enterprises across the globe to change the way people and goods move.

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