Jakarta has 'worst traffic in the world'
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Jakarta (The Jakarta Post, The Nation) -- After being ranked last in a safe- city index by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) last week, Jakarta has now received the status of the city with the worst traffic in the world, this time by British lubricant
Castrol's Stop-Start Index examined traffic conditions in 78 cities and regions around the globe, including Asia, Australia and Europe, as well as North and South America.
The index, however, did not include India or Vietnam. The index used data shared anonymously by millions of TomTom navigation device users around the world to measure the average stops and starts made per kilometre within each city. The figure was then multiplied by the average distance driven per year.
According to the survey, available at magnatec.castrol.com, Jakarta ranked as the city with the highest number of stops and starts, with an average of 33,240 per driver per year.
Jakarta was followed by Istanbul, Turkey, with 32,520 stops and starts per year, and Mexico City, with 30,840 per year. East Java's Surabaya was also included in the list as the city with the fourth-highest stop-start average, reaching 29,880 per year.
Not in the top 5 'most congested' list, Bangkok showed high stops and starts, at 27,480. In Phuket, the figure was 20,400. The survey also showed that an average driver in the two cities spent 36.07 per cent and 31.96 per cent of the travel time in idling mode.
