"There are more pedestrians being killed today than in decades," Russ Martin, the senior director of policy and government relations at the Governors Highway Safety Association, told NPR. “But there is a trend towards stimulating more bikes, pedestrians and transit usage to balance out between car and non-car commutes.In 2022, drivers struck and killed the highest number of pedestrians since 1981.Ī new study paints a grim picture of American roads: every day, 20 people walk outside and end up killed by a moving vehicle. “If a city has a wide network with high capacity, then they have better ground to serve more cars,” he says. Mr Schäfer says that since “congestion is bad for business”, particularly in industries like logistics, cities should use data to effectively plan and invest into multimodal transport options. The Italian city of Syracuse was the only European city to make it into the top-ten least congested list. It was closely followed by the UAE’s Abu Dhabi (also at eight hours) and the Islamic pilgrimage city of Medina (10 hours). Mecca in Saudi Arabia ranked as the least congested city by this metric, with an average eight hours lost to traffic during peak hours commuting each year. These included the Greensboro-High Point metropolitan area in North Carolina and the cities of Cleveland and Akron in Ohio. More than half (six) of the ten cities that are the least congested, based on the time lost due to rush hour traffic, were located in the US. He continues that more flexible work arrangement has led to much less demand in some metropolitan areas where there is more of a service based economy, such as the San Francisco Bay Area on the US West Coast. The Covid-19 pandemic was a “phenomenal experiment” for traffic engineers to assess how sudden reductions of demand impact road networks, says Mr Schäfer. Due to lockdowns, the closure of factories and the rise of remote work, demand for the road network dropped sharply in many cities around the world.
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