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Do Rising Gas Prices Make Any Impact on Traffic? Only by 3%
Oct 23rd
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Our traffic partner, Inrix, published its National Traffic Scorecard Special Report yesterday.
Results show that 96 of the top 100 markets experienced a decrease in traffic for the first half of 2008 compared with the first half of 2007.
Nationwide, there was a 3% average decrease in travel times during peak hours.
The study did show, however, that two-thirds of consumers changed their driving habits as a result of higher gas prices.
Perhaps most interesting about the report was the ranking of cities when it came to finding a correlation between gas prices and traffic. You might think that cities with more commuters would have seen a decrease in traffic due to increased use of public transportation. However, LA, the worst congested city in America, ranked 20th; Chicago ranked 47th; Wash. DC ranked 53rd; and NYC ranked 69th.
Altanta ranked #1 – the city had one of the largest increases in gas prices (31% increase) which resulted in overall less traffic (4.4% decrease).
New Study on Traffic Congestion
Jun 17th
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Author—Mary Beth Lowell – Communications Manager
Our traffic partner Inrix is hard at work again gathering information on traffic data in the U.S.
They published a study today on the top 100 most congested cities.
Here is the top 10:
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Los Angeles
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NYC
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Chicago
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Washington D.C.
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Dallas-Ft. Worth
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San Francisco
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Houston
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Boston
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Seattle
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Atlanta
These cities may not surprise you but how about Honolulu? According to Inrix, they made the Top 100.
The study also included some interesting facts on the best and worst days and times to commute. Any guesses on the worst day for Traffic?
GPS Helping to Measure Traffic Flow
Jun 13th
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Author—Mary Beth Lowell – Communications Manager
There is a fascinating story today in USA Today on traffic technology and a new way that traffic flow will be measured for awhile on I-95 from New Jersey to North Carolina.
According to the article, "the data will be collected from more than 800,000 GPS devices on delivery vans, trucks, taxicabs and other service vehicles; from sensors embedded in the roadways; from toll tag data such as EZ Pass, and from cellphones." Our traffic partner, Inrix, is collecting the data under contract.
The main benefit, of course, is that drivers are going to have more information available now on traffic flow, congestion and incidents.
With traffic and gas prices the way they are now, it seems that this advance in technology could really help many of us who can, albeit begrudgingly, call ourselves road warriors.
What do you think?
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