Operations Performance Measurement Program
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Urban Congestion Reports

The Urban Congestion Report (UCR) is produced on a quarterly basis and characterizes emerging traffic congestion and reliability trends at the national and city level. The reports utilize archived traffic operations data gathered from state DOTs and a private traffic information company. The reports are currently using data from 19 urban areas in the U.S.. The production of these reports is a cooperative effort between the Texas Transportation Institute and FHWA.

Each quarterly UCR compares data from the most recent three months to the same three months in the previous year. Quarterly reports beginning in Fiscal Year 2009 (October - December 2008) can be found below.

  • UCR October - December 2008 (HTML, PDF 113KB)
  • UCR January - March 2009 (HTML, PDF 113KB)
  • UCR April - June 2009 (HTML, PDF 113KB)
  • UCR July - September 2009 (HTML, PDF 113KB)
  • UCR October - December 2009 (HTML, PDF 190KB)
  • UCR January - March 2010 (HTML, PDF 205KB)
  • UCR April - June 2010 (HTML, PDF 205KB)
  • UCR July - September 2010 (HTML, PDF 171KB)
  • UCR October - December 2010 (HTML, PDF 212KB)
  • UCR January - March 2011 (HTML, PDF 350KB)
  • UCR April - June 2011 (HTML, PDF 227KB)
  • UCR July - September 2011 (HTML, PDF 230KB)
  • UCR October - December 2011 (HTML, PDF 459KB)
  • UCR January - March 2012 (HTML, PDF 463KB)

More details on how the Urban Congestion Report performance measures are developed can be found by reading the documentation and definitions.

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