2023 Author: Eric Donovan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 15:44
In 2013 there were 415,000 traffic jams on German autobahns with a total length of 830,000 kilometers. That is significantly more than last year. But the reason for this is not a higher volume of traffic.
This year, Germany's drivers were faced with around 415,000 traffic jams with a total length of 830,000 kilometers. There have never been so many traffic jams of this length, as the analysis of the ADAC traffic database shows. In the previous year there had been 285,000 traffic jams with a total length of 595,000 kilometers on the German autobahn.
The increase in traffic jams is not due to a surge in traffic and traffic jams, but to a significantly improved data collection, as the automobile club announced on Monday. As the ADAC data collection shows, a good half of all traffic jam reports are in the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (29 percent), Bavaria (15 percent) and Baden-Württemberg (11 percent).
Most of the traffic jams in NRW
A similar picture emerges with regard to the traffic jam kilometers: North Rhine-Westphalia is ahead of Bavaria (18 percent) and Baden-Württemberg (13 percent) with a share of 27 percent. In contrast, the five eastern German federal states only accounted for seven percent of the traffic jam reports and kilometers. Incidentally, October of this year saw the heaviest month of the year when the ADAC registered around 90,000 kilometers of traffic jam.
Due to this congestion balance, the ADAC sees a great need for action and catching up to do in removing bottlenecks in the motorway network. According to a study on traffic quality on German autobahns, around 1,600 kilometers of autobahns were regularly congested in 2010, and an increase to around 2,000 kilometers is predicted by 2025. (AG)
