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TRAFFIC CONGESTIONS * USA - Worst in Chicago, Fort Lee and Houston
(Photo by Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images: Los Angeles is the most congested city in the U.S., passing the New York area)
Washington,DC,USA -Fleet Owner, by Wendy Leavitt -Sep 22, 2011: -- Locations in Chicago, IL; Fort Lee, NJ, and Houston, TX, have earned the dubious distinction of holding the top three spots in the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)/ Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) annual report on highway congestion at freight-significant highway locations... In Chicago, I-290 at I-90 /I-94 emerged as the most congested section of highway in the nation, followed by I-95 at SR 4 in New Jersey and I-45 at U.S. 59 in Houston... The research, released on Wednesday, assesses the level of truck-oriented congestion at 250 locations on the national highway system, uses ATRI-developed analysis methods, customized software tools and terabytes of data from trucking operations to produce a congestion severity ranking for each location. It is an ongoing is part of the Freight Performance Measures (FPM) initiative sponsored by FHWA’s Office of Freight Management and Operations and operated by ATRI... The “FPM” congestion monitoring effort combines anonymous truck GPS location information with sophisticated software applications and analysis techniques to assess the levels at which truck-based freight was affected by traffic congestion in 2010. The result is a clear documentation of system chokepoints, especially during peak travel times in urban locations...
* Texas - Congestion cost trucking $23 billion in 2010
College Station,TXS,USA -Fleet Owner, by Deborah Whistler -Oct 5, 2011: -- A new study by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) said that the cost of congestion to the U.S. trucking industry – measured as wasted fuel and delay – was $23 billion last year... While trucks only account for 6% of the miles travelled in urban areas, they represent 26% of the total cost of congestion, according to the Urban Mobility Report 2011... Trucks are a key element in the just-in-time (or lean) manufacturing process; these business models use efficient delivery timing of components to reduce the amount of inventory warehouse space. As a consequence, trucks become a mobile warehouse and if their arrival times are missed, production lines can be stopped, at a cost of many times the value of the truck delay times, the study pointed out... The report suggests other strategies to mitigate congestion issues for trucking may consist of regulatory changes, operating practices or changes in the operating hours of freight facilities, delivery schedules or manufacturing plants..
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