Click to Zoom [+]TRAFFIC CONGESTION CALCULATOR
GMX has launched a Traffic Congestion Calculator to help the public evaluate how transportation improvements can reduce the time spent getting to their destination. This tool provides a framework of the time commuters spend on a daily round trip, and translates the impacts over time on their personal and business life. The Traffic Congestion Calculator demonstrates how transportation improvements that offer even modest time savings can help recapture valuable time.
Residents of West Dade, West Kendall and South Dade, can calculate how many months and years of their life are spent in traffic with daily round trip commutes of 3 and 4 hours. The cost of time lost can be significant over an average life span of 76 years. This is lost time that you cannot recapture.
The exercise of calculating time stuck in traffic is sobering, even without calculating the cost of congestion to a commuter or the economic cost to business and commerce. Transportation projects that can reduce your commute times can have significant cumulative impacts on your quality of life. These improvements can have a momentous impact over a person's lifetime just one year after project completion.
The Kendall Parkway itself can have a reduction of travel time of 25% to 33% for West Dade and West Kendall residents. GMX is also moving forward with the implementation of an Express Bus Service on SR 836/Dolphin Expressway which will eventually extend to the Kendall Parkway providing east west and north south mobility options for commuting and travel. These short term solutions will have tremendous benefits to the community without impacting future long term plans such as the Smart Plan rail options which require state and federal funds. It is the combination of short term, intermediate term and long term transportation projects that will move us forward into the future.
To calculate your time spent commuting to work, please fill out the first number as to your round trip daily commute time and the calculator will provide the rest of the information. In the box below, please enter the number of hours you spend traveling to work and back home daily (round trip). (Note: For 2 and a half hours you would enter 2.5)
CALCULATE THE TIME YOU HAVE SPENT STUCK IN TRAFFIC CONGESTION WHICH HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE THESE ARE UNPRODUCTIVE HOURS SPENT AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY AND AWAY FROM YOUR EMPLOYMENT
(Total time traveling to work and back home)
(Average daily commute time multiplied by 5 weekdays)
(Weekly commute hours multiplied by 52 weeks in a year)
TIME SAVINGS RECAPTURED THROUGH ONE OR MORE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE CAN RECAPTURE SIGNIFICANT TIME WITH TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS THAT CAN REDUCE OUR DAILY COMMUTE BY A FRACTION OF TIME. A MODEST TIME SAVINGS OF A QUARTER OR A THIRD OF YOUR DAILY COMMUTE TIME CAN YIELD SIGNIFICANT TIMES SAVINGS BECAUSE OF THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT OVER A LIFETIME.