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Europe: TomTom’s List Of Most Congested Cities

April
2010

  File under Statistics GPS
  Author: Mike Werner
  Location: Travelling

GPS manufacturer TomTom

, has been collecting anonymous data provided by its GPS systems, monitoring the average speeds that motorcycles and cars equipped with TomTom's GPS are running at. TomTom defined congestion as when riders (or drivers) need to travel at 70% (or lower) of the posted speed limit, in cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants. From that, they have been able to compile a list of congested cities in Europe.

The "Congestion Level" indicator shows you the percentage extra time you need to complete your trip, so in the case of the worse city, Brussels, a Congestion Level of 37.5 means you need 37.5% extra time to reach your destination.

The data is then re-used for TomTom's IQ Routes based, which calculates the realistic time for you to reach your destination.

The list of cities in Europe with their Congestion Levels:

City	Congestion Level
1.Brussels	37.7
2.Warsaw	37.5
3.Wroclaw	35.7
4.London	34.7
5.Edinburgh	34.5
6.Dublin	33.9
7.Belfast	31.8
8.Marseille	31.2
9.Paris	30.4
10.Luxembourg	29.4
11.Milan	29.4
12.Rotterdam	28.8
13.Birmingham	28.5
14.Rome	28.0
15.Amsterdam	27.7
16.Oslo	26.4
17.Barcelona	26.3
18.Budapest	26.2
19.Naples	26.1
20.Poznan	25.4
21.Lodz	25.0
22.Turin	24.2
23.Palermo	24.1
24.Prague	23.6
25.Genoa	22.7
26.Cardiff	22.6
27.Vienna	22.4
28.Munich	22.4
29.Leeds	21.8
30.Krakow	21.2
31.Essen	21.1
32.Hamburg	20.6
33.Lisbon	20.0
34.Sheffield	19.5
35.Stuttgart	19.1
36.Cologne	18.1
37.Dusseldorf	17.9
38.Berlin	17.2
39.Tallinn	16.8
40.Helsinki	16.8
41.Nuremberg	16.7
42.Madrid	16.3
43.Frankfurt	15.3
44.Hannover	14.8
45.Glasgow	14.7
46.Bremen	14.6
47.Copenhagen	13.9
48.Bratislava	13.7
49.Seville	13.6
50.Bern	10.9
51.Vilnius	10.8
52.Leipzig	10.6
53.Dresden	9.7
54.Dortmund	9.3
55.Malaga	7.9
56.Stockholm	6.4
57.Zagreb	5.9
58.Valencia	5.3
59.Zaragoza	1.5