ABC7 Chicago's Roz Varon recently reported on the current pick-up in traffic volumes and travel times in Chicago, speaking to the Illinois Department of Transportation's Maria Castaneda, who confirmed that "comparing April of this year to April of last year, there's definitely been an increase, in some cases almost double".
Together with iHeartMedia’s Total Traffic & Weather Network, ABC7 used traffic intelligence from Iteris' TrafficCarma Mobility Trends, which provides insights and a daily update of changes in traffic volume and congestion across major U.S. markets, ABC 7 Chicago was able to show that: "Comparing the number of trips in just the last four months to pre-COVID-19 levels, January still had 35% fewer trips, 28% less in February, 14% less in March and only 6% fewer trips in April."
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David Sadeghi is senior manager, digital marketing at Iteris.
