Dundee’s rush hour is one of the fastest in the UK and the busiest day for commuters is Tuesday, according to new research.
Despite motorists’ frustrations trying to get to and from work at peak times, drivers in the city are only delayed five minutes onaverage due to rush hour, and reach anaverage speed of 15.5mph.
Overall, the typical rush-hour slowstraffic speeds in urban centres by anaverage of 3.6mph, while in Dundee this is slightly less at 3.14mph.
A survey carried out by Direct Line Drive Plus calculated the speed of journeys around the country during morning and evening rush hour.
Using 20 million miles of telematics data, it was revealed that, unsurprisingly, London is the slowest place to be held up in rush-hour traffic, with commuters in Westminster averaging just over 10mph at peak times.
After Westminster, the slowest rush-hour speeds were to be found in Lancaster (10.88mph), Cambridge (11.30mph) and Hereford (11.49mph).
The fastest commuters in Britain can be found in Peterborough with an average rush-hour speed of 19.25mph, followedby York at 17.64mph and Oxford at 17.19mph.
The impact of rush hour was alsocalculated and in Canterbury the rush hour adds 9.7 minutes to a 30-minute journey, in St Albans the delay is 8.9 minutes and in Worcester it’s 8.6 minutes.
Of all the Scottish cities, Aberdeen moves the slowest at rush hour with an average speed of 12.7mph causing delays of 6.5 minutes.
Traffic in Edinburgh moved little faster, with a peak-hour traffic speed of 13.6mph.
Glasgow has the highest average speed, of 16.4mph, and delays of 4.7 minutes, however these figures are influenced by the inclusion of higher-speed traffic on the M8 and M74 near the city centre.
Rush-hour traffic flows appear to peak on a Thursday with that day most likely to see the busiest rush hour in 39% of locations.