An analysis of traffic congestion done in more 400 cities across six continents has found that commuters in
Mumbai spent the most time on the road last year.
Mumbai ranked first in the study, ‘Traffic Index-2018’, by location technology specialist TomTom, with a congestion
level of 65 per cent
New Delhi ranked fourth with a congestion of 58
per cent.
Mumbai held on to the top rank for the second consecutive year, beat
Bogota (63 per cent), Lima (58 per cent) and Moscow (56 per cent).
Overall study covered 403 cities in 56 countries
and defined congestion as the extra time added to road travel when traffic
doesn’t flow freely.
The best time in Mumbai without any congestion
would be 2 am and 5 am, when traffic flowed freely.
The peak hours between 8 am and 10 am resulted
in a congestion of 80 per cent, which shot up to 102 per cent between 5 pm and
8 pm, when offices shut for the day.
August 21 considered as the worst day to be on the road bringing
traffic movement to a complete standstill for the better part of the day
leading to a congestion of 111 per cent.
They suggested expanding the scope of the city’s
public transport network in order to provide end-to-end connectivity and
businesses to provide flexible working hours to employees to ease traffic
moving towards the suburbs.
