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REPORT * USA - Congestion price tag: $87.2 billion
Everyone can relate to traffic congestion, but when added up, the numbers are staggering
TX,USA -Land Line Magazine, by David Tanner -13 July 2009: -- Congestion caused Americans to spend an extra 4.2 billion hours on the roads and forced them to buy 2.8 billion extra gallons of fuel, according to the authors of the Texas Transportation Institute’s 2009 Urban Mobility Report... The total economic impact of congestion was $87.2 billion in 2007, up about $100 million from 2006... Trucking and the economic effects of delayed delivery times played a significant role in the findings, authors said... Congestion might have been even greater in 2007 if it weren’t for high prices of diesel fuel and gasoline... The authors studied 439 metropolitan areas to make their determinations... The average individual “wasted” 36 hours in traffic and 24 gallons of fuel in 2007. Truckers who buy their own fuel, who are paid by the mile, and who are subject to on-time deliveries have little choice but to get caught in urban rush hours, which pads the averages... The report does offer possible solutions to congestion problems... (From freefoto: Traffic Congestion)
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