Slight dip in traffic jams Antwerp since summer

Traffic congestion around Antwerp peaked in May this year at 274.36 kilometre-hours, before dropping slightly for the first time since at least 2016. In November, the counter still stood at 258.28. A decrease of just under 6%. The severity of a traffic jam is defined by the Flemish Traffic Centre as the product of the length of the traffic jam and the duration of the traffic jam, cumulated over the different phases of the traffic jam. Queue severity is expressed in kilometre hours (km.hours). Traffic jam length decreased from 49.6 kilometres in March to 46.74 in November, again a small 6% decrease.