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Bottlenecks - USA - Study lists nation's worst
USA -eTrucker, by Lance Orr -2 Feb 2006: -- Trucks idled for more than 243 million hours on bottlenecked U.S. highways in 2004, costing trucking companies $7.8 billion, according to a study prepared for the Federal Highway Administration... The study estimates a cost of $32.15 per hour of delay based on four major types of bottlenecks along freight corridors: interchanges, intersections with signals, steep grades and lane reductions... The study was conducted by Cambridge Systematics in association with the Battelle Memorial Institute.... According to the study, the Top 20 interchange bottlenecks for trucks are: ............. Bottlenecks account for 40 percent of vehicle delays, with the balance caused by construction work zones, crashes, breakdowns, bad weather and poor signal timing, the study said...
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