Traffic Jam Data
I got the idea for this project when I was obviously stuck in a traffic jam. I began to first wonder why no one bothered to help push the stalled car off the road. Second I began to wonder why the city doesn’t come out and tow the problem vehicle and avoid the headache of having intersections blocked by cars that got caught by the gridlock ahead.
Keeping that in mind I started to come up with an estimate of how much it would cost the city to simple move the vehicle vs. the time and money wasted by the people affected by the delay.
Gas costing what it does and lets not forget that time is money. So I came up with this little calculator that takes the fuel cost, the time it took to get though the traffic jam, as well as the length, and how many lanes of traffic were effected. Take that figure out how many sets (time to get thought divided by total time of the traffic jam) get thought and that should give you a total average cost of the traffic Jam.
I did make some speculations such as the average car being about 14 feet long and being about 3 feet from the next car in front of it.
The average wage numbers came in my case from Stats Canada.
The information collected on this site will possibly go towards a national average or total cost of all traffic jams entered in the site.
Lets remember that this is just for fun and can not be taken as fact but still holds enough truth to make a point.
