Houston Has Some Of Worst Traffic Bottlenecks In US: Report

HOUSTON, TX — The American Transportation Research Institute has released its annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America, and it’s hardly surprising that Houston has some of the worst.

The 2018 Top Truck Bottleneck List assesses the level of truck-oriented congestion at 300 locations on the national highway system, and all of Houston’s freeway interchanges are listed high on the list.

The worst of those freeway bottlenecks is the interchange at Interstate 10 and Interstate 45, followed the interchange at I-45 and U.S. 59, bot of which were among the top 20 worst bottlenecks in the US.

Others bottlenecks in the Houston area and their ranking on this dubious list include:

• I-10 @ US 59 (23)
• I-45 @ Loop 610N (41)
• I-45@ Loop 610W (48)
• Loop 610@59 (93)

Interstate locations in Austin, Dallas, and Ft. Worth were also listed in the bottleneck report.

It’s hard to image any bottlenecks being worse that all these Houston area trouble spots, but there are some in the US that are far worse, such as:

• Atlanta 285 @ I-85 N
• Fort Lee, New Jersey: I-95 at SR 4
• Chicago: I-290 at I-90/I-94
• Atlanta: I-75 at I-285 (North)
• Los Angeles: SR 60 at SR 57
• Boston: I-95 at I-90
• Baltimore: I-695 at I-70
• Queens, New York: I-495
• Cincinnati: I-71 at I-75
• Louisville, Kentucky: I-65 at I-64/I-71

The analysis, based on truck GPS data from more than 800,000 heavy duty trucks uses several customized software applications and analysis methods, along with terabytes of data from trucking operations to produce a congestion impact ranking for each location.

To see the full report from ATRI, click here.

Image: (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

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