Table 3-2: Yearly Hours of Delay per Auto Commuter, by Most Congested Urban Areas by Population Group
Urban area | Population group | Yearly Hours of Delay per Auto Commuter | Long-Term Change 1982-2011 | ||||
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1982 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | Hours | ||
Washington DC-VA-MD | Very Large | 18 | 65 | 74 | 66 | 67 | 49 |
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA | Very Large | 37 | 72 | 78 | 61 | 61 | 24 |
San Francisco-Oakland, CA | Very Large | 24 | 72 | 89 | 60 | 61 | 37 |
Nashville-Davidson TN | Large | 23 | 48 | 57 | 46 | 47 | 24 |
Denver-Aurora CO | Large | 11 | 42 | 48 | 44 | 45 | 34 |
Orlando FL | Large | 13 | 55 | 51 | 44 | 45 | 32 |
Honolulu HI | Medium | 19 | 34 | 43 | 45 | 45 | 26 |
Baton Rouge, LA | Medium | 10 | 36 | 43 | 42 | 42 | 32 |
Bridgeport-Stamford CT-NY | Medium | 13 | 51 | 54 | 42 | 42 | 29 |
Worcester MA-CT | Small | 13 | 40 | 40 | 33 | 33 | 20 |
Cape Coral, FL | Small | 10 | 29 | 36 | 29 | 30 | 20 |
Columbia SC | Small | 5 | 20 | 24 | 30 | 30 | 25 |
KEY: Very large urban areas – 3 million and over population; large urban areas – 1 million to less than 3 million population; medium urban areas – 500,000 to less than 1 million population; small urban areas – less than 500,000 population.
NOTE: To be consistent with NTS Table 1-71 and table 3-3 of this report, Knoxville was left in the "small" urban category even though TII's 2012 Urban Mobility Report classifies it as a medium urban area. "Yearly Delay per Auto Commuter" is calculated by dividing the extra travel time during the year by the number of people who commute in private vehicles in the urban area.
SOURCE: Texas Transportation Institute's (TII) 2012 Urban Mobility Report, Powered by INRIX Traffic Data, refer to http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/national-congestion-tables/ as of July 5, 2013.