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Europe: Most Congested Cities Of 2011

June
2011

  File under GPS Statistics
  Author: Mike Werner
  Location: Normandy, France

Like last year, Dutch GPS manufacturer TomTom

, have used their traffic planning & reporting system to map out where traffic jams are. It's one of the nice things of a modern-day GPS, the fact that when riding your motorcycle, you know that there's a traffic jam ahead of you. If you're stuck in the traffic jam, the TomTom records this. Once you've connected your GPS to the internet, that data is sent to the central server.

This way, TomTom can see where and when there are traffic jams, and accordingly, it can determine which cities are most restricted. Last year, they released the list of the top 60 European cities that were congested.

The 2011 edition has arrived, and Brussels, Belgium still tops the list. The UK has gotten worse, as a country they sit at the top of the country list. London, despite a decrease of 0.2% in traffic, went up the list from 4th to 3rd place. 3 cities in the UK, and 4 cities in France are in the top 10!

The best big city is Germany's Cologne, the last in the Top 50. As countries go, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Hungary, Ireland and the Czech Republic are the countries to ride your motorcycle, each with only one city in the top 50 list.

Here's the Top 50 list:

			2011		2010
Europe		City	% congested	network length researched (in km)	% congested	network length researched (in km)	difference in % congested 2011-2010
1	BE	Brussels	38,9	407	37,7	395	1,2
2	PL	Warsaw	38,1	498	37,5	481	0,5
3	UK	London	34,5	1 990	34,7	1 909	-0,2
4	PL	Wroclaw	33,1	249	35,7	213	-2,6
5	FR	Toulouse	33,0	347	34,8	347	-1,9
6	FR	Lyon	32,6	219	32,3	219	0,2
7	UK	Edinburgh	31,7	252	34,5	246	-2,8
8	FR	Marseille	30,4	389	31,2	387	-0,8
9	FR	Paris	29,9	725	30,4	711	-0,5
10	UK	Manchester	29,5	855	29,4	854	0,1
11	UK	Bradford	29,4	216	29,4	220	0,0
12	UK	Belfast	29,0	299	31,8	294	-2,8
13	UK	Oxford	29,0	208	28,7	208	0,3
14	IT	Milan	28,2	431	29,4	418	-1,2
15	UK	Birmingham	27,5	949	28,5	921	-1,0
16	CH	Zurich	27,4	229	27,0	225	0,4
17	NO	Oslo	26,9	274	26,4	269	0,5
18	IT	Rome	26,8	995	28,0	998	-1,2
19	UK	Aberdeen	26,3	228	26,7	228	-0,4
20	IT	Naples	26,2	265	26,1	259	0,1
21	NL	Amsterdam	26,0	376	27,7	362	-1,7
22	NL	Rotterdam	25,3	445	28,8	434	-3,5
23	ES	Barcelona	25,0	213	26,3	211	-1,3
24	IE	Dublin	24,2	578	33,9	583	-9,7
25	DE	Munich	24,0	653	22,4	655	1,6
26	HU	Budapest	23,7	763	26,2	742	-2,5
27	AT	Graz	23,7	209	22,3	209	1,4
28	IT	Genoa	23,5	310	22,7	311	0,8
29	UK	Nottingham	23,1	645	23,7	645	-0,6
30	FR	Montpellier	22,9	213	21,7	213	1,2
31	AT	Vienna	22,9	750	22,4	748	0,5
32	DE	Hamburg	22,8	970	20,6	970	2,2
33	UK	Southampton	22,8	391	22,7	391	0,1
34	IT	Turin	22,6	326	24,2	326	-1,6
35	NL	Utrecht	21,8	318	26,2	318	-4,4
36	CZ	Prague	21,6	683	23,6	632	-2,0
37	DE	Bonn	21,5	258	20,3	257	1,2
38	DE	Stuttgart	21,3	416	19,1	416	2,2
39	PL	Kraków	21,2	233	21,2	224	0,0
40	NL	Haarlemmermeer	20,9	250	22,1	249	-1,2
41	UK	Bolton	20,1	275	19,8	275	0,3
42	UK	Guildford	20,1	205	20,5	205	-0,4
43	UK	Wakefield	19,6	254	20,1	254	-0,5
44	FR	Nice	19,6	226	19,3	226	0,3
45	UK	Leicester	19,5	451	19,6	451	-0,1
46	BE	Antwerp	19,4	465	19,4	465	0,0
47	UK	Liverpool	19,4	483	20,3	485	-0,9
48	UK	Cambridge	19,3	428	18,0	428	1,3
49	DE	Essen	19,0	284	21,1	276	-2,1
50	DE	Cologne	18,9	865	18,1	862	0,8