Table 3-4 Most Congested Urban Areas by Annual Hours of Delay per Auto Commuter: 2000, 2010, and 2014

Thursday, September 1, 2016

	2000	2010	2013	2014
Very large urban areas	57	60	63	63
Washington, DC-VA-MD	70	85	82	82
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	75	78	79	80
San Francisco-Oakland, CA	73	73	77	78
Large urban areas	39	43	44	45
San Jose, CA	49	59	65	67
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA	46	57	57	59
Austin, TX	42	46	51	52
Medium urban areas	32	35	36	37
Honolulu, HI	44	51	50	50
Bridgeport-Stamford, CT-NY	43	47	49	49
Baton Rouge, LA	31	44	46	47
Small urban areas	23	29	30	30
Jackson, MS	26	37	38	38
Little Rock, AR	27	38	37	38
Pensacola, FL-AL	34	38	38	38

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.

NOTES: 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. Historical data differ from previous reports due to new procedures for calculating historical values.

SOURCE: Texas Transportation Institute, 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard, available at mobility.tamu.edu/ums as of February 2016.

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Table 3-4 Most Congested Urban Areas by Annual Hours of Delay per Auto Commuter: 2000, 2010, and 2014