rush hour in the world
In August 2010 there was the biggest traffic jam in the history of road traffic . Beijing drivers driving on the highway towards Tibet ate a hundred kilometer holdup. Eleven days they were behind the wheel until the road cleared up a bit . Cruising speed: one kilometer per day.
Every week, almost every planet metropolis , millions of people experience a bit of that car horror when they commute from home to work and from work to home; that journey that English speakers refer to as commute . Every morning and every evening, the drivers face the same enemy (which, ironically, they themselves summon): rush hour.
FleetLogging.com , a comparator of GPS and ELD devices, has used technology with the aim of find out which cities in the world have the worst rush hours and figure out if it's really worth getting in the car a little earlier or a little later to get out of a predictable traffic jam.
Maps of the world cities with the worst rush hours
MARSEILLE AND LONDON: RUSH HOUR CAPITALS
The first thing that his study reveals is that the city with the worst traffic is not the one in which one moves, which is what every irritated driver tends to think.
There are cities that carry it raw, and that's how they discovered it when using the TravelTime API to calculate How far from the center could cars travel during rush hour for 60 minutes? . They then did the same experiment at quieter times for comparison.
Of the 141 cities observed, Marseille turned out to have the world's most unbearable rush hour . With the roads collapsed, it is only possible go 40 kilometers from the center , while in off-peak hours that distance is doubled. Two other French cities occupy the infamous podium: Lyon and Paris.
But in first place in the ranking of terrifying traffic jams is London . During busy times it is impossible to escape from the British capital: at most you can get away 20.4 kilometers from all the core . The situation is repeated in Singapore (24.8 km), where, furthermore, there is no good moment: 26.7 kilometers is all that can be advanced in off-peak hours.
Maps of Europe's cities with the worst rush hours
HOW MUCH IS SPAIN BLOCKED DURING RUSH HOUR?
To the madrileños who cross the M-30 from Monday to Friday may be surprised to see their city out of the world ranking. Yes indeed, Madrid is ranked 24th at European level : in a bad time you can go a little more than 80 kilometers from the center. Not bad, although, at times with less traffic, the figure only increases by 14.7 kilometers. In other words, an extra early morning wouldn't make much of a difference.
Barcelona It's also no slouch when it comes to sterile time in the car. At rush hour, the inhabitants of Barcelona hardly move 60 kilometers from the center. It is also not advisable to leave before or after: at bearable hours, you can only drive 12 kilometers further.
Maps of the world cities with the worst rush hours
MY JAM IS WORSE THAN YOURS (AND I CAN PROVE IT)
The data is the data, but the anger caused by a row of cars stopped in the middle of the highway there is no scale to measure it.
At least FleetLogging.com has found a way to stop the discussion about which are the worst congestions : a jam comparator . When the radio or the audiobook are already tiring, comparing traffic jams around the world is quite an entertaining activity to kill time in the car.