The Texas Transportation Institute’s 2009 congestion report estimated that motorists wasted more than 4 billion hours in traffic in 2007, or about 36 hours per commuter. One way that is often proposed to reduced this waste is getting people to ride transit.
But the cure may be worse than the disease, suggests Steven Polzin of the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida. Polzin points out that the 2009 National Household Transportation Survey found that the average speed of commuters who take cars is 33 mph, while the average speed of commuters who ride transit is only 12 mph.
Rapid transit? Not hardly. Most light-rail lines average 20 mph, and this Hudson-Bergen train is even slower than that.
Flickr photo by WallyG.
Polzin estimates this represents 3 billion hours of wasted time. Although that’s less than three-quarters of the amount of time wasted by congestion, far fewer people commute by transit than by car — 7 million vs. 124 million in 2008. So 3 billion hours is well over 400 hours per transit commuter.
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