AMSTERDAM, Jan. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TomTom, the global geolocation technology leader released the 13th annual edition of its Traffic Index, which details key traffic insights and trends across 387 cities. The report found that Los Angeles was the #9 slowest city in the U.S, and great Los Angeles is the slowest metropolitan area. The report identifies how traffic affects residents in Los Angeles from time and cost to emissions.
Key findings include:
- In average throughout 2023, it took Los Angeles drivers 14 min and 29s to drive a typical 6-mile trip, up 28 seconds from 2022, and +1 min. 16s from 2021
- November 15, 2023 was the slowest day: a section of I-10 was damaged by a fire a few days before, and remained closed in both directions for more than a week. On that day, average travel times went up to 20 min and 35 s.
- For a typical 6 mile-commute driven twice a day during morning & evening rush hours:
- Typical Los Angeles commuters spent 157 hours driving; of which, a whopping 86 hours were due to congestion – which means that average travel times more than doubled at peak hours.
- Each Los Angeles driver emitted 798 kg of CO2, and 80 trees would be needed to absorb it.
- Los Angeles residents spent $391 on gas, with $71 stemming from traffic jams alone.
Additional information: More data about each city can be found at tomtom.com/Traffic-Index/. Visitors can also access real-time traffic data to identify how long their commute will take, current traffic jams and information about the busiest traffic days of the year.
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