Of course, like most cities, Atlanta experiences two major points of congestion throughout the day-although it may sometimes seem like traffic never really lets up.īetween 8 and 9 a.m., Atlanta’s average driving speed dips 20 percent, to 40 miles per hour.Īnd, both in the morning and at night, the brunt of Atlanta’s traffic affliction hits downtown highways-another non-surprise. With a 23 percent speed drop at peak traffic times, Atlanta roadways are still slower on average than those in the Southern California city-38 miles per hour between 5 and 6 p.m., versus San Diego’s 43 miles per hour. Now, Geotab has released another round of data, which uses 7.7 million aggregated reports to illustrate traffic congestion patterns in Atlanta and other traffic hotbeds.Īnalyzing the average cruising speeds of highways in these metropolises, Geotab showed that Atlanta tied with San Diego for the 14th worst speed drop percentage, compared to 18 other major cities.
The group’s research found that cars were warming Atlanta more to the north of Interstate 20 than the south- not a shocker, given area growth patterns. In August, transportation-focused data analytics company Geotab released heat maps showing how automobile use in major metro cities was impacting hyper-local temperatures. There’s nothing novel about knocking Atlanta for having chronically bad traffic, but there is something cathartic about being able to visualize when and where roads are most liable to clog.
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