According to a recent LinkedIn post from StreetLight, the company is drawing attention to the relationship between Vehicle Miles Traveled, or VMT, and road fatalities in the U.S. The post notes that crash risk tends to be highest where driving volumes are greatest, and identifies VMT as the most heavily weighted factor in its U.S. Safe Streets Index.
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The post further indicates that metros with lower VMT exposure, particularly transit-oriented regions such as New York City and San Francisco, perform better on this safety metric. By promoting a data-driven index and linking it to broader themes like smart cities and Vision Zero, StreetLight appears to be positioning its analytics platform as relevant to public agencies and infrastructure planners, which could support demand for its mobility data services and reinforce its role in transportation-safety and urban-planning contracts.