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Drivers need patience on the autobahns in NRW. The ADAC has broken down where the most and longest traffic jams are and where more are threatening.
Motorists needed a lot of patience on the motorways in NRW in 2022: they were stuck in traffic jams and slow-moving traffic for a total of 4,341 days. This emerges from the traffic jam balance sheet published by the ADAC on Thursday. On the more than 2200 kilometers of motorway, the duration of all traffic disruptions added up to 104,191 hours. In 2021, there were a few more with around 106,500 traffic jam hours. In the last year before the corona pandemic, the traffic jam lasted 170,500 hours.
Almost 160,000 traffic jams on the highways
In total, the ADAC counted almost 160,000 traffic jams on the NRW motorways in 2022. The total length of all reported traffic disruptions was around 213,000 kilometers.
Nationwide, NRW remains the number one congestion area. More than a third of all traffic jams (33.72 percent) occurred in NRW in 2022. North Rhine-Westphalia also had the largest share in terms of traffic jam kilometers (29.1 percent) and traffic jam hours (31.3 percent). It is followed by Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
According to the ADAC, these motorways were particularly busy
The A1, A3, A40, A42, A43, A45 and A46 were particularly affected in NRW last year. The motorway section with the most traffic jams was the A43 between Wuppertal and Recklinghausen (12,546 reports). The longest traffic jams in total were 14,499 kilometers on the A3 between Cologne and Oberhausen. Drivers needed the most patience on the A42 between Dortmund and Kamp-Lintfort (duration of traffic jam: 7054 hours).
NRW maximum value on the A 40
Measured in terms of the traffic jam load (duration of a traffic jam times length), the effects for road users on the A1 between Cologne and Dortmund were greatest at 26,749 kilometers times hours. The A40 between Duisburg and Essen reached the NRW maximum value (430) in terms of the number of kilometers of traffic jams per kilometer of motorway. The longest traffic jam in NRW, at 34 kilometers, was on June 15 on the A1 (Cologne – Dortmund) between the Remscheid-Lennep junction and the Dortmund/Unna junction.
Nationwide traffic jam figures from the ADAC
Nationwide, the ADAC counted around 474,000 traffic disruptions on German autobahns. The reported traffic jam lengths added up to around 733,000 kilometers of traffic jams and slow traffic. The registered traffic jam hours amounted to around 333,000. The traffic jam load of all reported events was 1,486,112 kilometers times hours nationwide.
The ADAC recommends cushioning peak traffic jams with flexible working hours and working from home, using the potential of the 49-euro ticket and preventing the domino effect of dilapidated bridges by speeding up planning and approval processes.
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