Los Angeles (United States) is the city in the world where drivers spend the most hours in traffic jams: an average of 102 hours per year per driver during 2017. The second and third places in this ranking are occupied by the cities of Moscow (Russia) and New York (United States), both with an average of 91 hours per year.
This is indicated by the largest global study on this topic, carried out by the company Inrix. It is the INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, which in its 2017 edition analyzed traffic data from a total of 1,360 cities in 38 countries around the world, including Spain.
The fourth city in the world where drivers have to endure more hours stopped in their cars throughout the year is São Paulo (Brazil), with 86 hours, while San Francisco (United States) occupies the fifth place in the ranking with an average of 79 hours per year.
Ten of the 25 cities with the most traffic congestion are in the United States: in addition to the aforementioned Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, there are Atlanta (70 hours), Miami (64), Washington DC (63), Boston (60), Chicago (57), Seattle (55), and Dallas (54). In the United States as a whole, drivers spend an average of 41 hours per year in traffic jams during peak hours.
By countries, the ten most congested in the world are, in this order, Thailand, Indonesia, Colombia, Venezuela, Russia, United States, Brazil, South Africa, Turkey and United Kingdom. In Thailand, drivers accumulate an annual average of 56 hours of delays during peak traffic hours.
According to this study, the Spanish city where drivers suffer the most hours of traffic jams per year is Madrid: the capital of Spain ranks 41st in the global ranking with a total of 42 hours of congestion per driver per year. For its part, Barcelona appears in 80th place in the ranking with an average of 28 hours of annual traffic jams per driver.
The Inrix study also reveals that the city where vehicles travel at the slowest average speed due to traffic jams is Belfast: in the capital of Northern Ireland, the average speed during the day is only 5.4 kilometers per hour.
In London, it is estimated that traffic jams have an average annual cost per driver of 2,430 pounds, and more than 9.5 billion pounds in cost per year for the city as a whole.
The INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard allows searches by continents, countries, and cities to locate the data of interest to each user.
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