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Chicago Traffic Tracker - Historical Congestion Estimates by Region - 2013-2018

Metadata Updated: December 29, 2023

This dataset contains the historical estimated congestion for the 29 traffic regions, from January 2013 to May 2018. Newer records are in https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/sxs8-h27x. The most recent estimates for each region are in https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/t2qc-9pjd.

The Chicago Traffic Tracker estimates traffic congestion on Chicago’s arterial streets (non-freeway streets) in real-time by continuously monitoring and analyzing GPS traces received from Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) buses. Two types of congestion estimates are produced every 10 minutes: 1) by Traffic Segments and 2) by Traffic Regions or Zones. Congestion estimates by traffic segments gives observed speed typically for one-half mile of a street in one direction of traffic. Traffic Segment level congestion is available for about 300 miles of principal arterials. Congestion by Traffic Region gives the average traffic condition for all arterial street segments within a region. A traffic region is comprised of two or three community areas with comparable traffic patterns. 29 regions are created to cover the entire city (except O’Hare airport area). There is much volatility in traffic segment speed. However, the congestion estimates for the traffic regions remain consistent for a relatively longer period. Most volatility in arterial speed comes from the very nature of the arterials themselves. Due to a myriad of factors, including but not limited to frequent intersections, traffic signals, transit movements, availability of alternative routes, crashes, short length of the segments, etc. Speed on individual arterial segments can fluctuate from heavily congested to no congestion and back in a few minutes. The segment speed and traffic region congestion estimates together may give a better understanding of the actual traffic conditions. Current estimates of traffic congestion by region are available at http://bit.ly/103beCf.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 29, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from Chicago JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 29, 2023
Publisher data.cityofchicago.org
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/views/emtn-qqdi
Data First Published 2018-05-03
Data Last Modified 2021-07-16
Category Transportation
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofchicago.org/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 2844ad86-2d11-4a0e-af39-9360ca2fbf85
Harvest Source Id 7590e386-229e-453a-8e53-6f18e200e421
Harvest Source Title Chicago JSON
Homepage URL https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/emtn-qqdi
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 7525bc88bdef6aab48b40375ecf1210805b2bb7f74384d4f5250d1a89fc2844c
Source Schema Version 1.1

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