Table 3-4 Most Congested Urban Areas by Annual Hours of Delay per Auto Commuter: 2000, 2010, and 2011

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	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Very large urban areas	55	55	57	59	61	64	63	60	52	53	53	52
Washington, DC-VA-MD	65	68	69	73	74	74	73	79	65	64	66	67
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA	72	75	76	75	78	78	79	75	57	60	61	61
San Francisco-Oakland, CA	72	71	76	78	82	89	89	86	60	60	60	61
Large urban areas	39	41	42	43	43	44	43	41	37	37	38	37
Nashville-Davidson, TN	48	49	53	57	57	57	54	52	44	46	46	47
Denver-Aurora, CO	42	42	42	42	45	48	47	44	43	42	44	45
Orlando, FL	55	57	55	54	51	51	51	50	43	48	44	45
Medium urban areas	30	32	32	32	33	33	34	33	29	30	30	29
Honolulu, HI	34	35	34	38	39	43	43	46	42	42	45	45
Baton Rouge, LA	36	37	37	42	43	43	41	39	43	43	42	42
Bridgeport-Stamford, CT-NY	51	52	54	54	52	54	58	58	45	41	42	42
Small urban areas	22	25	26	25	25	26	27	27	23	24	23	23
Worcester, MA-CT	40	40	40	37	38	40	38	40	38	37	33	33
Cape Coral, FL	29	33	33	35	35	36	41	40	29	29	29	30
Columbia, SC	20	21	21	24	24	24	29	33	29	30	30	30

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: Annual 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, 2012 Urban Mobility Report, available at mobility.tamu.edu/ums as of March 2015.

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Table 3-4 Most Congested Urban Areas by Annual Hours of Delay per Auto Commuter: 2000, 2010, and 2011