Trucking Industry Sees $9.2 Billion in Congestion Costs For 2013
Congestion on the nation’s Interstate highways added over $9.2 billion in operational costs to the trucking industry in 2013, according to research released today by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).
ATRI, the trucking industry’s not-for-profit research institute, utilized motor carrier financial data along with billions of anonymous truck GPS data points to calculate congestion delays and costs on each mile of Interstate roadway.
Delay totaled over 141 million hours of lost productivity, which equated to over 51,000 truck drivers sitting idle for a working year. ATRI’s analysis also established the states, metropolitan areas, and counties with the highest congestion costs.
California led the nation with over $1.7 billion in costs, followed by Texas with over $1.0 billion.
The Los Angeles metropolitan area saw the highest cost at nearly $1.1 billion and New York City was close behind at $984 million. Congestion tended to be most severe in urban areas, with 89 percent of the congestion costs concentrated on only 12 percent of the Interstate mileage.
Category: General Update, Management
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