Operations Performance Measurement Program
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Urban Congestion Reports

The Urban Congestion Report (UCR) is produced on a monthly basis using the most recently available data 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. As of late 2007, these monthly reports were being produced for 23 cities. The production of these monthly reports is a cooperative effort between Noblis, Texas Transportation Institute, and Cambridge Systematics.

You can access the most recent Urban Congestion Reports below (the month shown is the release date of the report). Each monthly report compares data from the most recent three months compared to the same three months last year. For example, the October 2007 report compares July-September 2007 to July-September 2006.

For further information, read the documentation and definitions for the performance measures and their calculation in the Urban Congestion Report.

  • October 2007 (coming soon)
  • November 2007 (coming soon)
  • December 2007 (coming soon)

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