People from Bremen are stuck in traffic jams for an average of 27 hours a year

Stand date: March 9, 2021.

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• Last year, commuters were stuck in traffic jams ten hours less than in 2019
• People from Bremen drove an average of twelve percent less every day
• According to the analysis, the number of accidents has fallen by 19 percent

Traffic jam on the way to work, traffic jam on the way home: Even in the Corona year 2020, many people who commute to and from Bremen were not spared this. And this despite the fact that restrictions and working from home resulted in significantly less traffic.

In the recently published analysis by the traffic data provider Inrix, Bremen ranks ninth as in the previous year. In the Hanseatic city, commuters lost an average of 27 hours last year. In 2019 it was 37 hours, but Bremen’s position in the ranking has not changed. According to the analysis, the average daily mileage fell by twelve percent in view of the pandemic in Bremen. The number of accidents in Bremen fell by 19 percent.

In Hanover, the average time lost in traffic jams is 28 hours

In Hanover, too, commuters lost noticeably less time in traffic jams in Corona year 2020 than a year earlier. Anyone who drove to work in Hanover had to reckon with an average loss of 28 hours – after 40 hours in the previous year. Hanover thus achieved seventh place in the nationwide ranking and thus climbed by one place. In the capital of Lower Saxony, the average daily mileage fell by 16 percent last year, according to the data, and the number of accidents by 17 percent.

Nationwide, the people in Munich still suffer most from traffic jams at 65 hours. Berlin remains number two with 46 hours – at least 20 less than the year before. Nuremberg follows behind: Because the time lost there only decreased by seven to 35 hours, the city jumps from sixth to third place among the traffic jam cities. Hamburg is fourth with 33 hours, ahead of Leipzig (31), Freiburg (30), Hanover (28), Düsseldorf and Bremen with 27 hours each and Stuttgart with 26.

Inrix benefits from congestion problems

“The coronavirus is changing the way, when, where and we move,” said Bob Pishue, traffic analyst at Inrix. “Morning commuter flows to cities around the world decreased as people reduced their trips to offices, schools, shopping malls and other public places.” Inrix sells traffic analysis and services for connected cars to administrations and companies. The bigger the congestion problems appear, the better the company’s business prospects are.

Experts view traffic jam rankings with mixed feelings. Justin Geistefeldt, Professor of Transportation at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, finds them basically “a bit problematic” because they do not sufficiently take into account the particularities of the individual cities. “The position in the ranking says little about the quality of traffic management or the availability of alternative means of transport,” he says. Nevertheless, the studies provided certain indications: “There is hardly a better data basis for assessing the traffic jam.”