Every day at 7.30, there is a notable shift in the urban landscape, Reeds, Øster Søgade and Åboulevarden in Copenhagen.
Honk and motorbrøl forstummer, the cars stop and the modern ones completely turns off. As had the entire row of busy drivers decided to keep the 15-minute of silence for the queue-fix approach. It is no where to be found in the morgentimernes Copenhagen.
exactly 137 hours spent each copenhagen motorist, on average, to sit in the queue in the capital in 2018. That amounts to about 5.5 days, but is certainly not in the vicinity of what drivers in our neighbouring countries largest cities had to stand through in order to reach from A to B.
According to the american institute Inrix, which collects and compiles data on kømængden in many hundreds of cities all over the world, was in Copenhagen last year at number 82. The capital is advanced one space forward from the space 83 in 2017 – despite the fact that the queue is actually smaller.
According to Inrix used copenhagen motorists last year, three percent less time to sit in the queue compared with 2017.
Inrix’s raining also on the average speed in the centre of the world’s cities. It is unclear how the foundation exactly have reached its result, however, according to the u.s. calculator was the speed in the Inner City last year 14,5 km/h. on average.
At this point Copenhagen is apparently harder to hit than several of the world’s most clogged cities. In Moscow and Istanbul, which according to the institute are the two most køramte cities in the world, is the average speed after all, at of 17.7 and 16 km/h.
Looking at the european cities, which is located in the immediate vicinity of Copenhagen, brightens the image, however slightly. In Berlin used every motorist, for example, 154 hours on hold in the queue last year, and the city settles on 15. the square of the most clogged cities in the world.
the Fact is that the whole of the four German cities of Copenhagen on analyseinstituttets list. In addition to the Berlin applies the Hamburg, Munich and Cologne.
Even worse, it seems in the Uk, where London takes a sixth place on the overall list. No less than 227 hours spent each of the drivers last year to sit in the queue, if we believe Inrix. The amount of queuing has been one percent worse, the communications institute.
the City will, however, beaten by the colombian capital, Bogota, on the third place. Here used every motorist 272 hours in line in 2018. It corresponds roughly to sit 11 days in the queue.
the World’s most køramte cities
The 10 most clogged cities and the time, each driver should use to sit in the queue last year:
Moscow, RuslandIstanbul, TyrkietBogota, ColombiaMexico City, MexicoSao Paulo, BrasilienLondon, StorbritannienRio de Janeiro, BrasilienBoston, USASankt Petersburg, RuslandRom, Italy
Source: Inrix