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TABLE 4-17 - Average Hours of Annual Delay per Auto Commuter: 2004-2009

Monday, September 10, 2012

TABLE 4-17 - Average Hours of Annual Delay per Auto Commuter: 2004-2009

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Urban areas 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Very Large            
Atlanta, GA 56 58 57 51 45 44
Boston, MA-NH-RI 56 57 56 52 50 48
Chicago, IL-IN 72 77 74 71 64 70
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 49 51 53 51 49 48
Detroit, MI 42 41 42 42 37 33
Houston, TX 52 55 55 54 63 58
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 82 82 84 79 60 63
Miami, FL 44 45 44 43 35 39
New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT 47 51 50 48 42 42
Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD 41 42 42 42 38 39
Phoenix, AZ 38 44 41 41 37 36
San Diego, CA 46 46 45 43 41 37
San Francisco-Oakland, CA 68 74 74 71 50 49
Seattle, WA 48 51 50 49 47 44
Washington, DC-VA-MD 83 83 82 85 70 70
Large            
Austin, TX 47 52 50 46 41 39
Baltimore, MD 56 57 57 56 48 50
Buffalo, NY 20 21 23 21 16 17
Charlotte, NC-SC 25 25 26 27 26 26
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 29 28 28 27 21 19
Cleveland, OH 19 17 17 16 20 19
Columbus, OH 19 19 18 17 19 17
Denver-Aurora, CO 50 53 52 49 48 47
Indianapolis, IN 32 30 29 28 25 25
Jacksonville, FL 32 31 31 32 28 26
Kansas City, MO-KS 28 30 31 27 22 21
Las Vegas, NV 30 32 32 33 27 32
Louisville, KY-IN 26 25 24 22 21 22
Memphis, TN-MS-AR 28 28 28 25 21 24
Milwaukee, WI 31 31 28 29 27 25
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 50 54 50 48 50 43
Nashville-Davidson, TN 43 43 41 39 33 35
New Orleans, LA 25 26 31 29 28 31
Orlando, FL 44 44 44 43 37 41
Pittsburgh, PA 38 37 34 35 31 33
Portland, OR-WA 40 42 41 40 36 36
Providence, RI-MA 26 26 24 26 20 19
Raleigh-Durham, NC 30 31 29 31 25 25
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA 32 37 38 36 30 30
Sacramento, CA 33 35 35 33 24 24
San Antonio, TX 32 33 31 31 28 30
San Jose, CA 52 54 57 55 38 35
San Juan, PR 36 34 34 33 30 33
St. Louis, MO-IL 37 38 35 32 33 31
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 35 34 36 36 35 34
Virginia Beach, VA 41 41 42 40 35 32
Medium            
Akron, OH 19 19 20 16 16 16
Albany-Schenectady, NY 19 19 22 24 17 18
Albuquerque, NM 31 33 34 35 29 26
Allentown-Bethlehem, PA-NJ 24 24 23 24 22 22
Bakersfield, CA 6 7 6 6 9 11
Baton Rouge, LA 37 37 35 34 37 37
Birmingham, AL 32 31 31 30 26 28
Bridgeport-Stamford, CT-NY 45 47 50 50 39 35
Charleston-North Charleston, SC 29 28 31 30 24 27
Colorado Springs, CO 42 53 50 44 31 31
Dayton, OH 17 15 15 13 15 15
El Paso, TX-NM 27 28 28 26 25 21
Fresno, CA 15 16 16 16 12 14
Grand Rapids, MI 19 19 19 18 17 19
Hartford, CT 27 27 31 30 24 24
Honolulu, HI 29 32 32 34 31 31
Indio-Cathedral City-Palm Springs, CA 17 20 21 19 14 14
Lancaster-Palmdale, CA 16 17 18 17 16 18
McAllen, TX 7 7 7 7 6 7
New Haven, CT 32 34 34 33 28 29
Oklahoma City, OK 25 23 27 30 26 25
Omaha, NE-IA 18 18 20 19 21 20
Oxnard-Ventura, CA 21 23 22 24 18 19
Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY 10 10 11 10 9 11
Richmond, VA 17 17 17 17 16 19
Rochester, NY 13 13 14 15 13 12
Salt Lake City, UT 27 25 24 25 24 28
Sarasota-Bradenton, FL 20 20 22 20 13 17
Springfield, MA-CT 18 19 20 19 17 19
Toledo, OH-MI 19 17 17 16 10 12
Tucson, AZ 25 28 27 25 21 23
Tulsa, OK 16 16 18 17 16 18
Wichita, KS 20 19 22 22 20 20
Small            
Anchorage, AK 22 21 22 22 16 14
Beaumont, TX 25 26 25 25 23 21
Boise, ID 23 24 25 24 18 21
Boulder, CO 28 28 31 26 22 15
Brownsville, TX 9 10 10 10 13 14
Cape Coral, FL 27 28 32 31 23 23
Columbia, SC 20 20 24 28 24 25
Corpus Christi, TX 11 11 9 11 10 10
Eugene, OR 13 14 13 12 10 9
Greensboro, NC 20 19 17 16 14 15
Jackson, MS 19 20 23 23 19 19
Knoxville, TN 24 23 21 22 22 21
Laredo, TX 1 1 2 2 4 12
Little Rock, AR 24 23 24 28 22 24
Madison WI 8 7 7 7 9 11
Pensacola, FL-AL 20 21 23 23 18 19
Provo, UT 13 14 14 14 13 14
Salem, OR 31 32 37 36 22 24
Spokane, WA 18 17 18 19 18 16
Stockton, CA 9 10 11 11 9 9
Winston-Salem, NC 17 20 19 18 15 16
Worcester, MA 21 22 21 22 21 20
101-Area average 45 46 46 44 39 39
Very large area average 58 60 60 57 50 50
Large area average 36 37 36 35 32 31
Medium area average 23 24 25 24 21 22
Small area average 19 20 20 21 18 18

NOTES: Annual delay per auto commuter is calculated as the extra travel time during the year divided by the number of people who commute in private vehicles.

Very large urban areas have a population of over 3 million. Large urban areas have a population of over 1 million and less than 3 million. Medium urban areas have a population of over 500,000 and less than 1 million. Small urban areas have a population of less than 500,000.

The 2010 Urban Mobility Report methodology and data sources have been significantly revised and the total number of cities reported rose from 90 to 101; these figures are not comparable to those in past editions of this publication. This is due to methodological changes such as covering a 24 hour period instead of only peak periods.

SOURCE: Texas A&M University, Texas Transportation Institute, 2010 Urban Mobility Report (College Station, TX: 2011), available at http://tti.tamu.edu/ as of January 2011 as cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 1-68, available at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/ as of April 2011.