2024 Author: Eric Donovan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 21:13
Motorists in Stuttgart are not to be envied. According to the current Congestion Index of the navigation manufacturer TomTom, the traffic load in the Swabian state capital is the highest in Germany.
In a nationwide comparison of all German cities, drivers in Stuttgart suffer from the highest traffic loads. This is the result of the current Congestion Index from the Dutch navigation manufacturer TomTom, which assessed the traffic load in ten German cities between April and June this year.
As the survey shows, a journey through Stuttgart takes an average of 33 percent longer than at times when traffic flows unhindered. The TomTom experts judged the commuters to be particularly affected by the traffic situation. You have to calculate 61 percent longer for the drive to work during the morning rush hour. At rush hour in the evening it is even around 70 percent.
In Stuttgart, the traffic on a road network of 761 kilometers in and around Stuttgart was evaluated (including 151 kilometers on the autobahn / 610 kilometers on other roads). In total, TomTom users covered 1,748,328 kilometers during this period. If you extrapolate the traffic load in Stuttgart over a year, then a driver with a daily driving time of 30 minutes is stuck in a traffic jam for 90 hours. "That corresponds to more than two working weeks that are lost unproductively in the car. This value is also a negative peak in Germany," said the TomTom experts.
Hamburg is the second most polluted city
The TomTom Congestion Index compares traffic in cities and urban areas; The basis of the result is the information on driving time in the entire road network. According to their own information, the researchers use a traffic database with six trillion measuring points, which is growing by another five billion every day.
"Because our traffic information is so precise, we can easily and efficiently identify critical points for traffic. If this knowledge is combined with current traffic information and modern routing technologies, the existing road infrastructure can be optimally used," says Ralf-Peter Schäfer, who works at TomTom responsible for traffic.
In terms of the cities most heavily used by traffic in Germany, Hamburg (congestion index 32 percent), Berlin (27 percent), Cologne (27 percent), Munich (24 percent), Frankfurt am Main (21 percent) follow in second place after Stuttgart, Ruhr area (west / 16 percent), Düsseldorf (15 percent), Ruhr area (east / 15 percent) and Bremen with 14 percent.
Istanbul is particularly badly affected in Europe
Now that TomTom has started to publish its Congestion Index every quarter, changes in traffic can also be read. With a view to Berlin, this means that the traffic load in the capital has not changed in the second quarter compared to the first. The index rose only moderately from 26 to 27 percent. Instead, the day of the highest traffic load has changed. While between January and March Thursday evening was the worst day for commuters to drive home, in April, May and June it was Friday. The busiest day in Berlin was also Friday on June 8th.
With a view of EuropeThe TomTom experts determined that the traffic load was highest in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. With a congestion index of 57 percent, Istanbul is progressing more slowly than in any other city in Europe. In the most populous city in Turkey, drivers had to be particularly patient during the evening rush hour traffic in the second quarter: an index of 125 percent was determined here. (AG / FM)
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