Cape Town, South Africa
Traffic conditions
Cape Town traffic in 2025
How busy did Cape Town get during rush hour?
Time lost due to traffic in rush hour in 2025
77 hours = 3 days, 5 hours
2 hours 33 min less than in 2024.
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Roads to efficiency: Data-driven transport planning in New York, Texas and California
Transportation gives our cities life, enabling people and goods to flow through increasingly complex urban environments. But in the past decade, congestion has intensified across the United States. It’s getting harder to predict and more expensive to leave unchecked. At the same time, cities, governments and planners now have access to smarter, data-driven tools to manage today’s rising mobility challenges.
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