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The bill pushes state and local agencies to adopt predictive analytics and telematics to improve roadway and freight safety and coordinates federal guidance, while shifting costs to local budgets and creating privacy, equity, and procurement risks if protections and implementation safeguards are insufficient.
State and local transportation agencies can use predictive analytics and telematics to better identify high-risk road segments and target safety investments, improving roadway safety.
Freight operators and planners gain tools to improve freight safety and performance-based planning, potentially reducing crashes and improving supply-chain reliability for businesses and workers.
State and local governments receive DOT-required guidance on anonymization, PII protection, and validation, which promotes stronger privacy safeguards and more trustworthy use of safety data.
Drivers and transportation workers face increased privacy exposure risk if telematics and detailed safety data are not robustly anonymized and protected.
Rural and low-income communities could be disadvantaged because performance evaluations based on predictive tools may skew investments toward data-rich areas, leaving underserved routes underinvested.
State and local agencies may incur new costs to acquire, validate, and integrate predictive analytics, telematics, and related systems into safety programs, straining budgets.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes and governs federal use of predictive analytics, telematics, and safety-data tools in major highway safety and freight programs and requires DOT privacy, security, and validation guidance.
Authorizes and clarifies federal use of safety data, predictive analytics, telematics, and related tools across key surface-transportation safety programs. It adds definitions (including "intelligent freight transportation system"), directs the DOT Secretary to issue guidance within one year on anonymization, security, PII protection, transparency, accountability, and validation of such tools, and requires DOT coordination with modal administrations and consultation with other agencies to promote interoperability and effective use.
Official title: Amend title 23, United States Code, to allow recipients of certain grants to improve highway safety efforts through the integration of predictive data analytics, telematics, and other advanced technologies, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 18, 2025 by John Boozman · Last progress December 18, 2025