Life in a jam
Study by the Frankfurt Institute for Time Management

Germans spend an average of three hours a day in traffic jams, it has emerged from a study by the Frankfurt Institute for Time Management carried out on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics, in which some five thousand men and women were questioned. The time a car driver spends at a standstill on the road has doubled since 2010. "The economy incurs billions of marks of damages a day as a result of traffic jams," said the study director, Otto Flimm Jr. Umpteen thousand people regularly arrived late at work. Supply dates were almost never successfully met.

The study again proved that telematics, the electronic traffic control system, was a failure, Mr. Flimm Jr said. The system was supposed to make it possible for car drivers to reach their goal, albeit by roundabout routes, but with the advantage of avoiding jams. But now not only the main traffic routes are gridlocked, all minor roads and residential streets are too.

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