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>The scourge we know as traffic costs the American economy about $125 billion to traffic per year, according to traffic analytics company Inrix. I never unders
by bob_theslob646 9y ago
>The scourge we know as traffic costs the American economy about $125 billion to traffic per year, according to traffic analytics company Inrix.
I never understood how they got these numbers.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoI don't know how they got those numbers either, although I could speculate on a simple way to do a back-of-envelope calculation by Multiplying the following: * commuter average hourly wage * time spent in traffic (basically time the commute took in traffic minus the amount of time the commute would hypothetically take if drove at the speed limit) That's easy although imperfect...might also want to account for other things like delayed meetings due to traffic.