ADAC: More traffic jams than ever on German roads

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There has never been so much traffic jam on our roads

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A million kilometers of standstill and a loss of time of years: that is what drivers put up with in 2014. The ADAC calls the results of its latest congestion balance "worrying".

D.bend time – who can do that? Answer: German drivers in a joint effort. Because they were stuck in a traffic jam for a total of 32 years last year. A new record.

The fact that it is getting more and more dense on the highways of the Federal Republic of Germany was demonstrated on Friday by the ADAC with its latest traffic jam report, the results of which the club itself classifies as "worrying".

Accordingly, there were a total of 475,000 traffic jams with a total length of 980,000 kilometers in 2014. In the year before last there were 60,000 traffic jams and 150,000 kilometers less. The increase is 15 percent, although the number of kilometers driven has only increased by 2.5 percent.

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"We already have a certain increase in traffic, but there are big leaps in traffic jam reports that can never be explained by them," said ADAC spokesman Andreas Holzel. The increase in the congestion data is mainly due to the more precise recording of the traffic situation.

More accurate recording, worse result

There are traffic jam scanners that use GPS to register the cell phone data of drivers. In addition, travel data from truck fleets are systematically evaluated. Much more accurate traffic jams are created than before through police reports and helicopter observation.

The most beautiful pictures from the traffic jam

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The traffic jam as an aesthetic phenomenon – helps the people standing in it (here in Beijing) …

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… not really this cultural way of looking at your traffic problem (here Shanghai), yes …

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… everyone else can enjoy such pictures (again Beijing) with a pleasant shudder.

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During the day, however, traffic jams are just traffic jams, be it in Bolivia’s capital La Paz or …

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… in New York. If you look at the predominant color of this picture of Times Square, you realize that the taxi is also no alternative to your own car.

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In many metropolises (here Shanghai) streets are built on several floors, but traffic jams cannot always be prevented.

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And if you lay more tracks next to each other, like here in Bangkok, that is not always the solution.

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Maybe taking the bus is an alternative. No, not always, as this picture, also taken in Bangkok, shows.

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With some traffic jams, like here in Ghana, one involuntarily only wonders whether …

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… this chaos (Shenyang, China) will ever dissolve again.

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In terms of traffic jam kilometers, North Rhine-Westphalia (30 percent), Bavaria (19 percent) and Baden-Wurttemberg (14 percent) were again in the lead. These three federal states thus accounted for 63 percent of all traffic jam kilometers. The share of the motorway network in these three federal states is around 45 percent.

North Rhine-Westphalia is a huge metropolitan area with a dense network of motorways, explained Holzel. In Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg, a particularly large amount of holiday traffic is heading south.

In terms of the length of the autobahns as a benchmark, however, Berlin ranks first in the negative ranking for both length and duration of traffic jams, followed by Hamburg.

The motorway most affected was the A8 with a static 150 kilometers of traffic jams per kilometer of the motorway. The car club determined a value of 137 kilometers for the federal motorway 3. On the A1 it was still 111 kilometers, third place.

The day with the least congestion is …

The ADAC also evaluated the days of the week: "Friday is the most affected over the year, because there is commuter traffic and weekend commuters," said Holzel. On average, Saturday is the day with the least congestion throughout the year. In the vacation months, however, it could look different.

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The evaluation shows once again that the German motorway network is reaching its capacity limits, criticized the ADAC. The road construction is lagging behind the specifications.

Of the 2,200 kilometers of autobahn, which, according to the requirement plan for the federal trunk roads, should be expanded as a matter of urgency between 2001 and 2015, only half had been completed by the end of 2014. When drawing up the new federal traffic route plan, one focus must be on the elimination of bottlenecks in addition to the renovation and maintenance of the motorway network.

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