![]() ![]() Over the course of the last year, the average driver in Detroit lost just 11 hours to traffic. While it might not be the car-making bastion it once was, Detroit still has a special place in its heart for the automobile. Motor City is living up to its name once again. If you’re looking for a city where your horsepower won’t be kept firmly in its stable, head to Detroit, USA. It’s not all doom and gloom out on the world’s roads, though. What’s more, it’s 1 minute and 50 seconds more than in 2021. At 36 minutes and 20 seconds, it’s the slowest travel time for any city in the index. A big part of the issue is that even in optimal conditions, London is still a slow city to drive around.Įven though Londoners don’t lose the most time to traffic, the English capital is ranked number 1 in this year’s traffic index because of how long the average 10 km trip takes. Drivers there didn't lose quite as much time to traffic as those in Bucharest or Dublin, but it's still not great. It's no surprise that traffic in London is bad. Even when conditions are optimal, it still takes a relatively long time to commute across central London. 139 hours of that were the result of traffic, highlighting the impact that London’s slow, complex and winding inner-city roads have on traffic. The average Londoner spent an astonishing 325 hours commuting during peak hours last year. In Dublin, it got worse by nearly two minutes.ĭrivers in Bucharest also lost a lot of time, and on the surface, seem to have experience similar traffic characteristics as Dublin. So, drivers in Bucharest might be some of the biggest losers to traffic at peak times, but overall, traffic has got a tiny bit better since last year. The only upside for drivers in the Romanian capital is that on average a typical 10 km journey took 10 seconds less in 2022 than in 2021. Like Dublin, people driving on Bucharest’s roads spent a total of 277 hours commuting at peak hours. Those driving in the city’s dense urban area lost 143 hours each year to traffic. Bucharest, Romaniaĭrivers in Bucharest, Romania, faced a similar plight. The time drivers spent in congestion would have been enough to read 55 books. The overview of what it's like driving in Dublin, Ireland. The overall average 10 km trip in Dublin's city center took 28 minutes 30 seconds, nearly 2 minutes longer than in 2021. That’s more than an hour per working day being lost to travel, with about half of that time being the result of suboptimal traffic flow. The average driver in the Irish city spent over 277 hours commuting last year. They lost the most time to traffic at peak hours of any city in the index: 145 hours over the course of the year, to be exact. Which city's drivers spent the most time in traffic? Dublin, Irelandĭrivers in Dublin, Ireland, suffered the most. Diving deeper into TomTom’s Traffic Index using this metric, we can see, relatively speaking, what are the world’s busiest cities. Pushing us back towards, and beyond, pre-pandemic rush hour traffic levels. ![]() In 2022, in most cities, drivers lost more time to traffic at peak hours than in 2021. It seems we only needed one more year to get back in our cars and reignite rush hour traffic. If you take a quick scroll through global city rankings of TomTom’s Traffic Index, you’ll see a lot of red numbers denoting how many minutes more drivers lose on average travel time per year, this year compared to last. Overall traffic levels were still lower than before the pandemic in 2019, but compared to 2020, traffic increased and spread out throughout the day. Back then, 158 out of the 404 cities analyzed showed an increase in traffic at peak hours. Traffic data from a couple of years ago, in 2021, showed a general return of traffic post-pandemic. Through the throes of the pandemic, we witnessed rush hours fade into memory. But there are a couple of questions that everyone wants answers to: which cities are hit worst by traffic? And which city centers experience the busiest rush hours? Thanks to TomTom’s traffic report, we have the answers. ![]() TomTom’s Traffic Index is giving us more insight than ever into the realities of traffic in the world’s major cities. ![]()
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