Minnesota Home To Five Of The Nation's Top Truck Bottlenecks

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Transportation Research Institute today released its annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America, and five Minnesota locations made the top 100.

The 2020 Top Truck Bottleneck List assesses the level of truck-involved congestion at 300 locations on the national highway system. The analysis, based on truck GPS data from over 1 million heavy duty trucks uses several customized software applications and analysis methods, along with terabytes of data from trucking operations to produce a congestion impact ranking for each location. ATRI's truck GPS data is also used to support the U.S. DOT's Freight Mobility Initiative. The bottleneck locations detailed in this latest ATRI list represent the top 100 congested locations, although ATRI continuously monitors more than 300 freight-critical locations.

"All Minnesotans benefit from a growing economy, but at the same time, the gains we get from a strong economy can be tempered by increased traffic congestion as demand for goods increases," said Minnesota Trucking Association President & CEO John Hausladen. "In order to keep traffic and our economy moving we must invest in improving our roads and bridges and ATRI's report gives us all a roadmap for where investments are most needed."

The five bottlenecks in Minnesota, all in the Twin Cities are:

    --  No. 40: I-35W at I-494
    --  No. 61: I-35E at I-94
    --  No. 77: I-35W at I-694
    --  No. 85: I-94 at US 52
    --  No. 95: I-35W at I-94

"ATA has been beating the drum about the continued degradation of our infrastructure, and thanks to ATRI's research we can see exactly how decades of ignoring the problem are impacting not just our industry but our economy and commuters everywhere," said American Trucking Associations President and CEO Chris Spear. "This report should sound the alarm for policymakers that the cost of doing nothing is too high, and provide a roadmap of where to target investments to really solve our nation's mounting infrastructure crisis."

For access to the full report, including detailed information on each of the 100 top congested locations, please visit ATRI's website at TruckingResearch.org.

ATRI is the trucking industry's 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research organization. It is engaged in critical research relating to freight transportation's essential role in maintaining a safe, secure and efficient transportation system.

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SOURCE American Transportation Research Institute