Bottleneck report finds site visitors situations proceed to deteriorate post-pandemic

Crossing the George Washington Bridge from New Jersey into New York Metropolis stays essentially the most congested bottleneck for truck site visitors within the U.S.

That is the fifth 12 months in a row that the passage from I-95 at State Route 4 in Fort Lee, New Jersey has held the highest spot within the American Transportation Analysis Institute’s annual itemizing. ATRI at this time launched its 2023 Prime Truck Bottleneck Checklist, which measures the extent of truck-involved congestion at over 300 places on the nationwide freeway system.

All the prime 10 contains:

1. Fort Lee, New Jersey: I-95 at SR 4
2. Chicago: I-294 at I-290/I-88
3. Houston: I-45 at I-69/US 59
4. Atlanta: I-285 at I-85 (North)
5. Atlanta: I-20 at I-285 (West)
6. Chicago: I-290 at I-90/I-94
7. Los Angeles: SR 60 at SR 57
8. Los Angeles: I-710 at I-105
9. Nashville: I-24/I-40 at I-440 (East)
10. San Bernardino, California: I-10 at I-15

There have been solely modest modifications within the prime 10 from final 12 months. The 2022 itemizing included:

1. Fort Lee: I-95 and SR 4
2. Cincinnati: I-71 at I-75
3. Houston: I-45 at I-69/US 59
4. Atlanta: I-285 at I-85 (North)
5. Atlanta: I-20 at I-285 (West)
6. Chicago: I-290 at I-90/I-94
7. Los Angeles: SR 60 at SR 57
8. Dallas: I-45 at I-30
9. San Bernardino, California: I-10 at I-15
10. Chattanooga, Tennessee: I-75 at I-24

Texas leads all different states with essentially the most congested bottlenecks with 13. The opposite prime states on the record of a number of bottlenecks embrace:

• Georgia, 9
• California, eight
• Tennessee, seven
• Connecticut, New York, and Washington, six every
• Illinois, 5

FROM THE TRUCKERS NEWS PODCAST: This is how ATRI identifies the worst freight bottlenecks within the U.S.

ATRI stated its evaluation, which utilized information from 2022, discovered site visitors situations proceed to deteriorate from current years as extra People returned to work post-pandemic. Consequently, provide chain bottlenecks occurred all through the nation. Common rush hour truck speeds have been 36.3 MPH, down greater than 6% from the earlier 12 months. Among the many prime 10 places, common rush-hour truck speeds have been lower than 30 MPH. 

ATRI’s annual evaluation, primarily based on an in depth database of freight truck GPS information, makes use of a number of personalized software program purposes and evaluation strategies, together with terabytes of information from trucking operations to provide a congestion affect rating for every location. ATRI stated its truck GPS information can be used to help quite a few state and federal freight mobility initiatives. 

The bottleneck places detailed on this newest ATRI record characterize the highest 100 congested places, though ATRI repeatedly displays greater than 300 freight-critical places.

For entry to the complete report, together with detailed info on every of the 100 prime congested places, go to ATRI’s web site.