Fact #291: October 27, 2003
Traffic Congestion, 2001

In areas with more than 3 million people, 76% of travel in 2001 was in congested conditions, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. In 1982, those same areas had only 45% of travel in congested conditions. Areas with less than half a million people experienced only 30% of travel in congested conditions, which still was nearly three times the rate in 1982.

Supporting Information

Share of Travel in Congested Conditions, 2001

	1982	1990	2001
Population > 3 million	0.45	0.66	0.76
Population between 1 & 3 million	0.24	0.47	0.65
Population between 1/2 & 1 million	0.17	0.30	0.49
Population less than 1/2 million	0.11	0.18	0.30
Source: Texas Transportation Institute, The 2003 Annual Urban Mobility Report, September 2003.

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