Berlin – In 2022, the travel volume in Germany reached its pre-coronavirus level again. This meant one thing above all: traffic jam warning. Patience on the streets was the order of the day!
According to an assessment by traffic specialists from Inrix German drivers lost a total of more than 325 million hours of traffic jams in 2022. On average, every German driver was stuck in traffic jams for 40 hours, just like in 2021. Annoying. But: The lost time was still well below the 2019 maximum of 46 hours per driver.
︎ The drivers needed more patience in the Bavarian capital Monk. On average, everyone in Munich waited 74 hours in traffic. Hard to believe: in 2021 it was even five hours longer.
Whether in the morning or in the evening: there is always a traffic jam here. Numerous cars circulate on Munich’s Mittlerer Ring during rush hour
▶︎ Second place goes to Berlin – every Berliner was stuck in traffic for an average of 71 hours, in 2021 it was 65 hours.
▶︎In Hamburg drivers spent 56 more hours in the car than needed last year, an increase of a full nine hours from 2021.
︎ Also in Potsdam the traffic jam curve increased rapidly: drivers had to plan 55 hours a year of waiting. In 2021 it was 46 hours.
▶︎ With ten hours more waiting than in 2021 Darmstadter they were stuck in traffic for more than 47 hours last year.
▶︎In Leipzig motorists had to spend 46 hours in traffic jams (up six hours compared to 2021).
▶︎ The last places in the ranking of the top 10 most congested German cities are occupied by Freiburg (43 hours of traffic jam), Bremen and Nuremberg with 40 hours of traffic jam each and Cologne (38 hours of traffic jam)
The most congested road sections in Germany
Here he has accumulated the longest in 2022!
Berlin is in the top 10 three times this year regarding the busiest roads in Germany. On the A1/B5 WB in the direction of Samariterstraße, rush hour starts at 7:00: commuters waste an average of eight minutes a day. At the same time, the route is the busiest route in Germany in the morning rush hour traffic. Nothing works on the B96 NB in the direction of Bieselheider Weg after 4 p.m. – again a waste of time, eight minutes a day. Traffic also stopped on the A100 EB to the A103 from 4pm, a loss of eight minutes to the day.
▶︎ However, the most congested corridor in 2022 was in Munich. Last year commuters lost a staggering 51 hours – 13 minutes a day – on the northbound B2R.
Heavy traffic pushes into the Heckenstallerstraße tunnel on the Mittlerer Ring B2R in Munich during rush hour in the morning
Hamburg and Cologne each took two places in the top 10. In Hamburg in 2022, there were ten minutes of daily delay on the A7 SB and eight minutes on the Ring 2 SB towards Sievekingsallee. In Cologne, commuters were stuck in traffic jams on the A3 NB and AA59 SB for a total of 36 and 37 hours.
While Cologne and Hamburg were new, congestion hotspots in Kiel, Hanover, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, which were still in the top 10 in 2021, dropped off the list in 2022.
▶︎ The loss of time on the most congested road sections in Germany is constantly increasing. For comparison: A driver who drove on the B2R Mittlerer Ring in Munich in 2021 lost 27 hours, the maximum value for 2021. In 2022, however, drivers on another corridor, also largely on the Mittlerer Ring in Monaco, already lost 51 hours.
look abroad
To all Munich residents: standing in a traffic jam for 74 hours is nerve-wracking, but it can get worse! London commuters were stuck in traffic for a whopping 156 hours in 2022, a dismal peak from last year. Close behind those of Chicago (USA) with 155 hours of traffic jam per person.
The frontrunner in neighboring France is Paris: in 2022, commuters were stuck in traffic jams for an average of 138 hours.
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