Traffic congestion is an issue in every major city in the world, but spare a thought for the heavy vehicle operators travelling Brisbane’s roads – according to figures released as part of the INRIX 2024 Global Traffic Scorecard.
INRIX manages global traffic through analysing data from cameras and vehicles and provides insight into how vehicles move across the globe.
According to its latest data set which includes over 900 cities across 37 countries, drivers in Brisbane lose more time to traffic delays than all but nine cities across the entire world.
The Scorecard says Brisbane drivers lose 84 hours per year to congestion – with INRIX calculating travel times on empty roads to travel times at peak hour to assess delay.
The 84 hours of delay marks a 14 per cent increase on Brisbane’s 2023 results.
Melbourne ranked 21st in the world with 65 hours lost per driver, while the only other Australian city to rank inside the top 100 was Sydney in 45th with 51 hours lost.
Istanbul (105 hours), New York (102 hours), Chicago (102 hours), London (101 hours) and Mexico City (97 hours) ranked as the top five worst cities for traffic congestion according to INRIX’s analysis.
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