BTS | Table 1 - Congestion Measures in 68 Metropolitan Areas

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Table 1
Congestion Measures in 68 Metropolitan Areas

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Year	Annual delay per person (hours)	Wasted fuel per person (gallons)	Annual Fuel wasted per urban area (million gallons)
1982	11	17	26
1986	18	28	43
1990	26	39	65
1992	27	41	69
1995	30	46	81
1997	34	51	92
1999	36	55	100

NOTE: The “annual delay/eligible driver” and “wasted fuel/eligible driver” terminology used in previous reports has been discontinued and replaced with “per person” calculations in this report.

SOURCE: D. Shrank and T. Lomax, The 2001 Urban Mobility Report (College Station, TX: Texas Transportation Institute, 2001).

Table 1 Congestion Measures in 68 Metropolitan Areas

Table 1
Congestion Measures in 68 Metropolitan Areas