Ford vehicles equipped with the SYNC 4 connected vehicle system will have an added solution that gives drivers the latest available traffic, incident, parking, charging and fuel information.
About 49.3 million people will hit the nation's roadways this Thanksgiving as compared with 48.5 million in 2018, representing a 2.8% increase and the highest volume of travelers in 14 years.
Vehicle travel during the Fourth of July holiday period this year is expected to increase by 4.3%, escalating to a record-high 41.4 million Americans hitting the roads compared with 39.7 million in 2018, according to AAA.
For the sixth consecutive year, Los Angeles topped the list of the world’s most gridlocked cities, with drivers spending 102 hours in congestion in 2017 during peak time periods, according to the annual INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard.
The cost of traffic congestion increased in 2016 to an average of $1,400 for U.S. drivers, as congestion worsened in Los Angeles, which has become the most congested city in the world, according to the Inrix Traffic Scorecard.
Los Angeles has been named the most congested city in the U.S., where drivers wasted an average of 81 hours per year stuck in gridlock, according to data-provider Inrix.
INRIX has released its latest Gridlock Index, which shows traffic congestion in the U.S. According to the company’s latest report, traffic increased by 10% during February, 2013, which is the largest year-over-year increase recorded by INRIX in its Gridlock Index in two years.