Research company INRIX, specializing in traffic information and driver services, amounted to world ranking of cities with the busiest roads based on the results of 2016. As part of the annual analytical study Global Traffic Scorecard, INRIX specialists studied the traffic situation in 1064 cities in 38 countries and, taking into account the average number of hours drivers spent in traffic jams per year, identified leaders and outsiders.

The methodology used by experts made it possible to assess the characteristics and scale of congestion in different time days at most different corners different countries. Experts analyzed traffic during peak hours and at normal times, traffic on country roads at exits and entrances to cities, as well as on city highways. The average time spent in traffic jams was calculated taking into account parameters such as, in particular, the size of cities and the duration of trips. Experts analyzed GPS data, as well as a number of events that directly affect density traffic. For example, road construction and closures, weather conditions, closures and various incidents. Note that the study was not conducted in China and Japan.

The most congested countries

Last year's leader, the United States, was moved from first place to fourth due to the addition of countries to the ranking South America and Asia. Thus, American drivers spent, on average, more than a whole century in traffic jams. working week- 42 hours. The country with the busiest roads in the world is Thailand, where drivers lost 61 hours in peak traffic jams. Colombia is in second place (47 hours), and Indonesia is in third place (47 hours).

Russia shared fourth place with the United States - Russian drivers also sit in traffic jams on average 42 hours a year.

The UK came in 11th (32 hours) and Germany 12th (30 hours).

Slowest cities

Drivers spent an average of 104 hours stuck in traffic during rush hour traffic in Los Angeles last year. Moscow was in second place with 91 hours, and New York was in third place with a score of 89 hours. Next in the top ten worst cities in terms of traffic are San Francisco, the Colombian capital Bogota, Brazilian Sao Paulo, London, American Atlanta, Paris and Miami. It is noteworthy that in the top 25 cities in the INRIX rating, in addition to Moscow, two more Russian cities were included - Krasnodar (18th place) and St. Petersburg (22nd place). In 2016, each motorist spent an average of 56 and 53 hours in traffic jams in these cities, respectively.

At the same time, Muscovites are stuck in traffic jams for more than a quarter (25.2%) of the total time they spend behind the wheel, while for residents of Los Angeles this figure is lower - only 12.7%.

The report's authors noted that the road situation in Europe is generally much better than on other continents. Thus, of the 25 cities with the biggest traffic jams, 11 were American. At the same time, in European ranking Russian cities are expected to be even more numerous - Moscow is followed in the top ten by London (73 hours), Paris (65 hours), Istanbul (59 hours), Krasnodar (56 hours), as well as Zurich, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Munich and Nizhny Novgorod, in which traffic jams account for about 50 hours per year.

Let us remind you that, according to data obtained using the Google.Maps service, Moscow expected to have the largest traffic jams at the end of last year. Samara unexpectedly took second place in the Google ranking, which is barely among the top ten Russian megacities in terms of population. Krasnoyarsk took third place. It is obvious that both cities, in addition to objective transport problems associated with planning, most likely can boast of a very high, by Russian standards, level of motorization of the population.

Next on the list are Ufa and Voronezh, which are not included in the top 10 most populated cities in Russia, and only St. Petersburg is in 6th place. Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Perm and Nizhny Novgorod close the ranking.

I hate traffic jams! All the fun of a Friday evening is ruined by being stuck in traffic jams. The road to Dubna (100 km) sometimes takes seven hours, five of which I spend on the Moscow Ring Road. They say that a person spends 4 days in his LIFE listening to phone beeps, and some people are stuck in traffic jams for 4 days in a YEAR!

In Russia, of course, Muscovites get the most. We top the list of the worst traffic jams in the country. But we are luckier than the residents of Stuttgart or San Francisco. Where are the most hellish traffic jams on the planet, read under the cut...

No. 10. Brussels - 70 hours

Brussels is the capital of Belgium and the Brussels-Capital Region. Brussels houses the institutions of the French and Flemish Communities and Flanders, the headquarters of the European Union, the NATO office, and the secretariat of the Benelux countries.

No. 9. Cologne - 71 hours

Cologne is a million-plus city, the fourth most populous and third largest city in Germany, as well as one of the largest economic and cultural centers of the country. In addition, Cologne is the largest center of a 10-million-strong supra-glomeration of the Rhine-Ruhr region and the center of a 2-million-strong monocentric agglomeration. Cologne is one of oldest cities Germany, which played a significant role in the history of Europe throughout its existence, starting from the Roman era. Cologne is famous for its main temple - Cologne Cathedral, one of the main Catholic churches Germany. The area of ​​the city is 405 km2, the population is about 1 million people.

Cologne is the traffic jam capital of Germany. On average, people here spend about 71 hours a year in traffic jams.

No. 8. Antwerp - 71 hours

Antwerp is the second most important city in Belgium. Also is seaport, is one of the twenty largest ports in the world and is the second in Europe after the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

The area of ​​the city is 204 km2, the population is 510,610 people. On average, people here spend about 71 hours a year in traffic jams.

No. 7. Stuttgart - 73 hours

Stuttgart is a city in Germany, one of the most important industrial centers in Germany, as well as an important Cultural Center. The area of ​​the city is 207 km2, the population is about 613 thousand people.

Residents of Stuttgart spend an average of 73 hours in traffic jams each year.

No. 6. New York - 73 hours

NY - The largest city USA, part of one of the largest agglomerations in the world.
New York is the world's most important financial, political, economic and cultural center. The area of ​​the city is 1214 km2, the population is about 8.4 million people.

New York never sleeps, so there are traffic jams here at any time of the day. New Yorkers spend an average of 73 hours stuck in traffic every year.

No. 5. Houston - 74 hours

Houston is the fourth most populous city in the United States and the largest city in the state of Texas.

The city is a leading global center for the energy industry, and the city's economy also includes businesses in the fields of aeronautics, transportation and healthcare.
The area of ​​the city is 1552 km2, the population is about 2.3 million people.

Traffic congestion in Houston is caused by large quantity Vehicle, which exceed the maximum throughput roads and due to poorly developed public transport in the city. During rush hours, all the main highways of the city are jammed with traffic jams. Houstonians spend an average of 74 hours stuck in traffic each year.

No. 4. San Francisco - 75 hours

San Francisco is a city and county in the state of California, USA, named after the Catholic saint Francis of Assisi.

San Francisco is famous for the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, the cable car system and Chinatown.

Traffic and congestion are a way of life in San Francisco. San Franciscans spend an average of 75 hours in traffic every year.

The area of ​​the city is 121 km2, the population is about 850 thousand people.

No. 3. Washington - 75 hours

Washington is a city and the capital of the United States of America. The area of ​​the city is 177 km2, the population is about 650 thousand people.

No. 2. Los Angeles - 81 hours

Los Angeles is a city in the United States in the south of California, located on the coast Pacific Ocean. The largest city in terms of population in the state and the second in the country, the City is the center of Greater Los Angeles, an agglomeration with a population of over 17 million people.

Los Angeles is one of the world's largest cultural, scientific, economic, educational centers, the world's largest centers of the entertainment industry in the fields of cinema, music, television, and computer games.

The area of ​​the city is 1302 km2, the population is about 3.8 million people.

Los Angeles is famous for its gigantic traffic jams. Los Angeles residents spend an average of 81 hours stuck in traffic each year.

No. 1. London - 101 hours

London is the capital and largest city of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The main political, economic and cultural center of Great Britain. The city's economy occupies a fifth of the country's economy. Refers to global cities of the highest rank, the world's leading financial centers.

The area of ​​the city is 1706 km2, the population is more than 8.5 million people.

London is a very large metropolis and there are a lot of cars. London occupies an “honorable” first place in the ranking. Londoners spend an average of 101 hours stuck in traffic jams each year.

1. Moscow. Drivers Russian capital spend about 57 hours a year in traffic jams.
2. Ekaterinburg
3. Novosibirsk
4. Samara
5. Rostov-on-Don
6. St. Petersburg
7. Krasnodar

Summary of previous episodes:

Data on traffic jams in Russian cities was obtained using the Google Maps service. The rating is based on the principle of the ratio of the speed at which the driver could move on an open road to the actual speed.

Moscow turned out to be the busiest city in the country.

Despite the fact that, according to official data from the capital's authorities, the level of congestion, especially in the center of the capital, is decreasing from year to year, Moscow traffic jams are still unrivaled. The transport situation becomes especially difficult during heavy rainfall or on holidays, when hundreds of thousands of cars from neighboring regions come to the city.

Samara unexpectedly took second place in the Google ranking, which is barely among the top ten Russian megacities in terms of population. Krasnoyarsk took third place. It is obvious that both cities, in addition to objective transport problems associated with planning, most likely can boast of a very high, by Russian standards, level of motorization of the population.

Next on the list are Ufa and Voronezh, which are not included in the top 10 most populated cities in Russia, and only St. Petersburg is in 6th place. Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Perm and Nizhny Novgorod close the ranking.

At the request of Gazeta.Ru, the Google results were commented on in the Yandex.Traffic service.

“Yandex.Traffic specialists regularly analyze the traffic situation in Russian cities. Our approach involves identifying the characteristics of congestion on streets and highways, so we try to avoid direct comparisons and averaging of data,” said service analyst Leonid Mednikov. — Firstly, the average travel time on a relatively empty road and a busy one is significantly different, for example, in different days weeks and peak hours.

Secondly, the “traffic jam” of a city is influenced by many factors: traffic structure, the development of public transport, the availability of parking, the work of city services, the time of year and, of course, the weather.

Cities usually differ at different levels congestion during the day: for example, in some places the traffic jam score during the morning rush hour is higher, in some places it starts earlier, and in another city it can last longer.

And the main thing that unites everyone is that the road situation greatly depends on the season and weather. The worst traffic jams usually occur due to rain or snow in winter and early spring, as well as on the eve public holidays. The algorithms for calculating road congestion in all Yandex.Traffic cities are the same, but the point scale is designed differently - so as to correspond to the ideas of local motorists about what congested or free roads are. It means that same values points in different cities may correspond to different degrees of difficulty.

For example, a situation in which you have to spend one and a half times more time on the road will be assessed at 7 points in Omsk, and only at 4 points in Yekaterinburg.

In the fall of 2013, we conducted an experiment and compared several Russian cities, recalculating their scores on a single (Moscow) scale. At the same time, it was not the average score as a whole that was compared, but the workload for a specific period (September - October) on weekdays.”

According to these data, Moscow turned out to be the most congested city, and the heaviest congestion was recorded from approximately 17.00 to 18.30. Yekaterinburg took second place in the Yandex ranking more than three years ago. Next came Novosibirsk. Samara took fourth place, but in the evening it was surpassed in terms of traffic jams by St. Petersburg. In addition, the top 9 most traffic-congested cities, according to Yandex, included Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Omsk and Kazan.

The Kuban capital took 21st place in the world rankings

Krasnodar entered the TOP 25 cities in the world with the most hellish traffic jams. Photo: Anton Balashov

Krasnodar entered the TOP 25 cities in the world with the biggest traffic jams at the end of 2016. The capital of Kuban took 21st place in the world ranking, improving the result compared to previous year by five positions. Analysts studied road traffic in 1064 cities in 38 countries. Los Angeles is in first place in terms of the number and duration of traffic jams, Moscow is in second place, and New York is in third place, reports citing INRIX. Let us remind you that due to simultaneous repairs on several important city highways, the Kuban capital is experiencing a “transport collapse.”

INRIX, a company specializing in big data technologies and transport analytics, conducted a Global Traffic Scorecard study. As part of the study, company experts studied road traffic in 1064 cities in 38 countries. It is noted that specialists selected data for analysis at different times of the day, on different days of the week and on different parts cities.

Krasnodar took 21st place in the ranking, improving its performance by five positions compared to the previous year - previously the Kuban capital took 16th place in the table. Drivers in the Kuban capital spend an average of 56 hours a year in traffic jams, the study shows.

At the end of 2016, Sochi dropped out of the TOP-25, taking 27th place; previously the Olympic capital was in 17th place. According to the study, Sochi residents spend an average of 49.2 hours in traffic jams.

Los Angeles took first place in the world ranking (104.1 hours in traffic jams), Moscow came in second (91.4 hours), followed by New York (89.4 hours). Of the Russian cities, Magnitogorsk made it into the TOP 10, taking 8th place. Residents of the Ural city spent 71.1 hours in traffic jams.

The study did not take into account the time spent by drivers directly on the road; calculations were made only regarding “dead” standing in traffic jams.

As KrasnodarMedia previously reported, Krasnodar region took third place in the TOP-3 regions of the Russian Federation in terms of passenger car fleet volume. There are 1 million 740 thousand cars registered in the region - 60 thousand more than in St. Petersburg. In first place in the ranking is Moscow (3 million 750 thousand cars), second place goes to the Moscow Region (2 million 590 thousand cars). IN total In the Russian Federation, experts counted ten regions with passenger vehicle fleets of over 1 million units.

Based on the results of the current year, 2017, experts and social activists of Kuban predict a significant increase in Krasnodar in the ranking of the most traffic-congested cities. Let us remind you that for several weeks now the Kuban capital has been carrying out “massive” repairs of a number of important transport arteries of the city. Simultaneous repairs in different areas led to the fact that the regional center was stuck in traffic jams.

Let us add that the “road apocalypse” has reached its climax. “They are making fun of us - this is obvious! The ill-considered policy of officials to close city roads during repairs has made life extremely difficult!” said residents of the Kuban capital. Today, another reason for large-scale indignation among citizens was the proposal of the deputy head of the city department of transport and traffic management, Vladimir Arkhipov, to use bicycles and mopeds in order to adjust traffic during the period of global repair of city highways - according to public activists, he announced this at a recent press conference at the mayor’s office.

"If I used to go to work in an hour, now it takes 2.5 hours! And the whole city does this! We don’t have time to pick up our children from kindergartens and schools, we come home late in the evening, and in the morning everything starts all over again. Is it really possible? It was impossible to think through the traffic management scheme in advance, because the repair of city highways was also approved in advance!” — the residents of Krasnodar “accompany” their indignation with similar responses.

According to the press service of the Krasnodar administration, today, out of 47 sections of roads to be repaired in the Kuban capital, 16 sections are fully ready and accepted, 7 will be completed within the next week, the rest by the end of October. The only transitional project for 2018 is the Garden Overpass, which will be completed in May-June next year.

At the same time, from mid-October, several important highways will be closed for repairs in Krasnodar. “The whole horror is yet to come,” say the townspeople.

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It is growing at such a pace that the infrastructure simply cannot keep up with it. This phenomenon was unknown to Russians until the mid-90s of the last century, but now traffic in megacities practically stops during rush hour. Let's look at ten cities where this problem is most acute.

10th place.

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, USA, closes the top ten busiest cities. Research shows that the average resident spends 41% more time traveling during rush hour than usual. Despite numerous road junctions, wide streets and developed infrastructure, the city is one of the most problematic in terms of traffic management in the world. This is due to the large number of personal vehicles. Thus, the number of cars is 1.8 million higher than the number of registered drivers. And a poorly organized public transport system only makes the situation worse.

9th place.

Chengdu, China

On average, a car owner in Recife spends 94 hours a year driving in heavy traffic. According to most experts, the problem of traffic congestion worsened in 2014, during the World Cup. According to mayors, the main way to solve the problem of transport collapse is to tighten traffic rules and increase fines.

7th place.

Salvador, Brazil The next position in our ranking is also occupied by a Brazilian city, whose car owners spend 43% more time traveling during rush hour than usual. Moreover, approximately 18.7% of its residents spend more than one hour traveling from home to work. The main problem with this state of affairs is that it Old city

, its development and growth occurred spontaneously, without a developed urban plan. Moreover, El Salvador is located on hilly terrain, which, coupled with narrow streets, seriously complicates traffic.

6th place.

Bucharest, Romania

This Romanian city is busier than the largest European capitals - including Paris. The avalanche-like growth in car traffic is due to a poorly organized public transport system, as well as the fact that all parking in the city is completely free. Research shows that charging just one Romanian leu, equal to $1.23, for parking would achieve a 56% reduction. We should not forget, however, that such measures without developing a system of intercept parking and increasing the accessibility and level of comfort in public transport have extremely low effectiveness. 5th place. Moscow, Russia

The city has 12 million officially registered residents, who own four million cars. In addition, one must take into account the fact that Moscow has become a center of attraction for residents of nearby regions who come to work every day. The situation with parking is also quite difficult - this leads to the fact that the total duration of the trip of 1.5 hours is considered normal. Neither increased fines nor forced evacuation help to avoid illegal parking; only the Moscow Ring Road and the Third Ring Road are partially freed from this phenomenon, which leads to a narrowing of the roadway. In addition, the increase in the number

shopping centers , as close as possible to the city center, significantly increases the intensity of the load on transport routes. this year turned out to be ill-prepared for the manifold increase in car traffic; even large-scale construction in anticipation of this event did not completely solve the problem. Studies have shown that on average, motorists in Rio de Janeiro lose 165 hours of idle time per year, which equates to a total economic loss of $43 billion.

3rd place.

Istanbul, Türkiye The difficult state of affairs in Istanbul is due to a whole range of reasons, the main of which is geographical - the city is located on two continents, and is connected by several bridges. This leads to a concentration of traffic at certain nodes and junctions. Moreover, the presence of a large number of offices and tourist attractions in the city center leads to a significant increase in passenger traffic. Chaotic traffic and massive disregard for traffic rules are the reason for the formation of five rows of vehicles on three-lane roads. The TomTom company from the Netherlands, specializing in the production of navigation systems, records the difficult road situation in this city on a quarterly basis. According to expert Nick Conf, this state of affairs is due to a huge amount artificial structures on highways

, on which it is limited.

2nd place.

Bangkok, Thailand

The leader of our rating, the busiest city in the world! The average motorist spends 219 hours a year in Mexico City traffic. And during rush hour, trip duration increases by 59%. The mayor of Mexico City, Miguel Angel Mancera, considers the main mechanisms to be the development of public transport, the creation of comfortable conditions for passengers and the optimization of routes. In this city, a car sharing system has long been actively practiced, when a car owner takes several travel companions for a nominal fee - it has proven its effectiveness and is being implemented throughout the country. Unfortunately, such measures are not particularly widespread in Russia due to the fact that, from the point of view of imperfect legislation, this is illegal import.

Thus, the main reasons for the formation of such a difficult road situation can be cited as the lack of a clear urban planning plan, poorly developed public transport, imperfect traffic rules and the slow development of related infrastructure. The negative experiences of these ten cities should serve as a lesson for those settlements which are under intensive development.