UK is Europe´s third most traffic-congested country, 熟考する／考慮する finds
The UK has the third worst traffic congestion country in Europe, a 熟考する／考慮する has 設立する.
Drivers are spending an 普通の／平均（する） of 32 hours a year stuck in jams during 頂点（に達する） periods in the UK, によれば traffic （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） company Inrix.
研究員s calculated that the direct and indirect costs of 持つ／拘留する-ups reached £31 billion last year, at an 普通の／平均（する） of £968 per driver.
Congestion is the most 厳しい in London, which was 設立する to be the seventh worst city out of more than 1,000 analysed around the world.
Manchester is the second most congested UK city, followed by Aberdeen, Birmingham and Edinburgh.
Inrix 長，指導者 経済学者 Graham Cookson said: “にもかかわらず Brexit, 2016 saw the UK economy remaining stable, 燃料 prices staying low and 雇用 growing to an 11-year high, all of which incentivises road travel and helped 増加する congestion.
“The cost of this congestion is staggering, stripping the economy of billions, 衝撃ing 商売／仕事s and costing 消費者s dearly.
“To 取り組む this problem, we must consider bold 選択s such as remote working, wider use of road 使用者 非難する and 投資 in big data to create more 効果的な and intelligent transportation systems.”
Aberdeen （太陽，月の）食／失墜d London for congestion at 頂点（に達する） periods last year as the hardest city to get into or out of, with drivers stuck in gridlock 24% of the time, moving at an 普通の／平均（する） 速度(を上げる） of 5.5mph.
Outside of London, the A1 southbound from College Gardens to Wallace Park in Belfast was the most congested road 回廊（地帯） in the UK.
商売／仕事s 苦しむ the most from traffic in Cardiff, with daytime congestion in the Welsh 資本／首都 occurring 15% of the time.
A congestion 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 調印する in London (Philip Toscano/PA)
Steve Gooding, director of モーターing 研究 charity the RAC 創立／基礎, said: “Road congestion is a high price to 支払う／賃金 for having a successful economy, and the 危険 is that gridlock starts to strangle growth.
“That is why we don’t just need 支えるd 投資, to 追加する capacity and 任命する／導入する better traffic 管理／経営 systems, we need intelligent 投資 planned to minimise disruption during construction, minimise 維持／整備 必要物／必要条件s, and 供給する more 柔軟性 for the 未来.”
AA 大統領，／社長 Edmund King told the 圧力（をかける） 協会: “雇用者s could help 緩和する the 状況／情勢 by introducing 柔軟な working hours or home-based 雇用 and we also need to 改善する the efficiency of white 先頭 配達／演説／出産s as light 先頭s are the fastest area of traffic growth.”
Russia is the most congested country in Europe, followed by Turkey and the UK.
