2023-10-09 11:41:00
While traffic jams are a source of stress and accidents, they also have a huge cost for society. According to the mobility dashboard in Belgium, developed in early 2022 by the Belgian Business Federation and Febiac, traffic jams have already generated a cost of more than 3.6 billion euros since January 1, 2023.
Including 502 million for the month of September alone. A figure up by €26 million in one year. The record of €48 billion lost over one year might therefore be largely beaten by December 31. “The economic costs generated by congestion relate to loss of time, additional fuel consumption and the cost of additional vehicle emissions,” specify the creators of this monitoring. “They are converted into monetary values.”
Accident, aggression, sleep, economy, productivity at work…: the unsuspected effects of traffic jams on your daily life
While traffic jams are a source of stress and accidents, they also have a huge cost for society. According to the mobility dashboard in Belgium, developed at the start of 2022 by the Belgian Business Federation and Febiac, traffic jams would have already generated a c
The main fault lies with inflation, an hour of work lost in traffic jams costs more today than in 2022. The only good news, according to the Belgian Mobility Dashboard, is the average time lost in traffic jams. per employed active person per day would be down 6% compared to 2022, now standing at 6 minutes and 14 seconds.
The top 10 most congested cities in Belgium
The 2022 ranking of the most congested Belgian cities according to the TomTom Index. ©Tom Tom Index
When he sang his Rush Hour Complaint in the 1970s, Joe Dassin was undoubtedly very far from imagining the state of automobile traffic 50 years later. Today, his famous refrain – “In Paris by bike we overtake cars; on a bike in Paris you overtake taxis” – is more relevant than ever. In Paris, as in Brussels, Antwerp, Liège or Namur. According to data collected by Tom Tom, via GPS data from its users, it would take 25 minutes and 30 seconds on average to travel 10 kilometers in Brussels. This places our capital in first place among the most congested cities in Belgium, behind it 7th in Europe and 14th in the world.
Antwerp would come in second place among the most congested cities, while remaining very far from Brussels, with “only” 14 minutes 40 to cover 10 kilometers. Liège, Ghent, Charleroi complete the leading quintet, followed, in order, by Bruges, Namur, Mons, Leuven and finally Kortrijk.
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