Traffic jams cost U.S. drivers approximately $1,200 a year in wasted fuel and time, and a lot more in Los Angeles, the city with the world’s most greatest rush hour hold-ups, according to a research study by INRIX Inc launched on Monday.
INRIX, based in Kirkland, Washington, aggregates and evaluates traffic information gathered from vehicles and highway facilities. The company stated the most recent edition of its Global Traffic Scorecard report was based upon 500 terabytes of information from 300 million sources.
While Thailand was the world’s most overloaded country in 2016, according to the research study, the United States had the worst traffic among rich, industrialized economies. 5 of the world’s 10 most congested cities are in the United States, INRIX discovered.
U.S. traffic jam have been a known problem, and it could get renewed attention if President Donald Trump promotes a large-scale infrastructure investment program as he has guaranteed.
Persistent traffic congestion are an issue for international automakers, and some significant cities have begun to limit private automobile access to central city locations.
The INRIX study sliced information in various methods. Los Angeles motorists spent an average of 104 peak drive-time hours battling slow traffic throughout 2016. That put Los Angeles at the top of the list of cities where drivers wasted the most hours stuck in slow heavy traffic.
However on a different measure, time stuck in blockage as a share of all driving, Moscow motorists had it worse. They spent 25.2 percent of their overall driving hours on congested roadways, while Los Angeles vehicle drivers spent 12.7 percent of their overall driving time in slow traffic, the study discovered. In Bogota, Colombia, vehicle drivers invest 31.8 percent of their total driving time in traffic congestion.
The worst stretch of road in the US is New York’s Cross Bronx Expressway, where motorists on the 4.7 mile (7.5 km) roadway spent an average of 86 hours per year looking at the bumper of the vehicle ahead.
