Prague is the 74th most congested city in the world, Brno is in the same situation. The worst ride is in Mexico
Navigation manufacturer and map supplier Tom Tom evaluated last year’s data and found out in which cities drivers stay the most while driving. There is no big European city in the top ten, and more and more Chinese agglomerations are coming to the fore.
Although there are traffic jams in Prague, the delay in them is on average half that of the busiest metropolises.
This is according to the current Tom Tom Traffic Index, which evaluated last year’s traffic situation in almost three hundred cities in 38 countries on a total of six continents. Among them, the calculated average percentage of delays (compared to the travel time at the time when the route is freely passable) in three cities in the Czech Republic. Specifically in Prague, Brno and Ostrava. You will find the complete ranking here.
Drivers in the Mexican capital are currently the worst off. If they go into city traffic, I have to reckon that they will spend 59 percent more time on the route than if they drove at the same time when the same roads are clear. However, this is an all-day average. If he starts his car during the morning or evening rush hour, he has to count on twice the time compared to the ideal throughput.
Mexico is followed by Bangkok (57 percent extra time), where evening traffic complications are the worst, adding another 114 percent to Istanbul, +50% and Rio de Janeiro (+ 47%). They are followed by two European cities. The fifth position of Moscow (+ 44%) is probably not a surprise, but the capital of Romania – Bucharest is only one percent better. Chinese cities are increasingly represented in the rankings. Even worse than Beijing are Chengdu and Tianjin. There is also no honey in urban transport in Brazil. In addition to the aforementioned Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Recife are in the top ten most crowded places.
Of the cities that are located relatively close to the borders of the Czech Republic, and sometimes the domestic driver comes there by car, the worst is Polish Warsaw (13th position and + 38%), Italian Rome (15th place and + 38 percent) and also London in 16th place with the same percentage of average delay.
The domestic capital ranks 74th compared to the world’s capitals, with 27 percent of average driving delays, similar to Vienna or Frankfurt am Main. In the morning rush hour, drivers hold an average of 52 percent of normal travel time, in the afternoon only 47 percent.
According to Tom Tom, the traffic situation in Prague is rather improving in recent years, while in the other two monitored cities of the country, which is Brno and Ostrava, it is rather deteriorating. According to Tom Tom, Brno has already overtaken Prague in two of the three monitored parameters – the first is the overall level of traffic congestion, the so-called congestion, and the second is the afternoon rush hour.
Drivers are a bit better in Ostrava, where traffic jams reach 18 percent, while in the morning rush hour, up to 27 percent is 30 percent in the afternoon.
The largest columns were formed in Prague last year on Thursday, April 30, when people left for an extended May weekend.
The best way to drive in the afternoon rush hour is on Monday, when we spend “only” 42 times more on the road than when the roads are clear, “the survey found. it is usually Tuesday at this time.
In Brno, the morning rush hours are less crisis, while the evening traffic is similar to that in Prague. On Thursdays and Fridays between 4 pm and 5 pm, when traffic density reaches a maximum, Brno roads are even less passable than in the capital.