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Men are more likely than women to have used a video-sharing site: 53% compared with 43%. And 70% of adults under age 30 have done so, compared with only 16% of those 65 and older.
LinkedIn valued at $1bn
Microsoft to buy TV ad service
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Last.fm strikes Universal Music video deal
Mobile TV headed for ‘tipping points’
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On Wednesday's Radio Show, Ken & Andy talked about Linkedin's $1 billion valuation, Microsoft buying a TV ad service, Wifi in Philly not dead, Verizon upgrades subscriber's speeds, Apples pays some of the lowest wages, Last.FM goes MTV, Mobile TV almost here, P2P make the life of an ISP even harder, Skype upgrading and Spielberg movies may have singing and dancing.
The methodology used to measure overall congestion and to establish
metropolitan travel time index for each of the weekly 40 drive time
hours enables the calculation of overall national congestion metrics,
by hour, by morning and evening drive time, by day and overall.
Overall, the nation’s drive time travel time index for 2007
was 1.13.
This means that during drive time a random traveler on a random trip on
the roads analyzed took on average 13% extra travel time than if there
was no congestion. This represents an increase of 1.9% from 2006. The
initial impacts of higher fuel prices, which averaged $2.85 for a
gallon of regular gas in 2007, likely slowed the rate of growth of
congestion as the year progressed.
A summary of the National Travel Time Index and
“factoids” below lists
the nation’s “best” and
“worst” days, drive times, and hours relative
to congestion. National Travel Time Index and Drive Time FactoidsNational Travel Time Index
2007 National Travel Time Index = 1.133
1.9% increase in National TTI from 2006
National Factoids (Drive Times)
Worst Day: Friday
Worst Hour: Friday 5-6 PM
Worst Morning: Wed AM
Best Day: Monday
Best Commute: Friday AM
Best Hour: Friday 6-7 AM
Best Afternoon: Monday PM
Metropolitan Rankings
The rankings of the Top 100 Markets provide several different facts for
each metropolitan area – facts that can be compared against
the
regions. Since there are numerous ways to sort the table, we have
provided a variety of “top 10” lists.
here are several conclusions to be drawn from this data:
Regions like southwest Connecticut,
Honolulu and Austin may not rank high in terms of overall congestion,
but it’s a safe bet that if you are on highways in these
regions in
peak hours, congestion is the norm.
Regions in Florida and other areas where housing slumps
have
been most evident, such as Las Vegas, have seen a decline in congestion
in 2007 versus 2006. It is likely the list and extent of regions seeing
declines will grow when 2008 data is analyzed.
Given the extent of congestion across America, it is going
to
take more than some drivers reducing their driving in response to high
fuel prices to put a substantial dent into the problem. So far, the
response by many has been to purchase more fuel efficient or
alternative fuels vehicles rather than change driving habits. Fuel
prices will need to be very high for a long time to affect choices in
home and work locations to an extent to have a significant impact on
congestion. Bottom line – even if congestion flattens or
trends down in
the near term, it’s not going away. High fuel prices will not
end
congestion.
Bottlenecks
Nearly 31,000 individual road segments were analyzed to determine the
extent and amount of average congestion each had in 2007. More than
8000 segments contained at least one hour of the week were one can
expect to travel at less than half the uncongested speed, with nearly
5000 segments having at least 5 hours of congestion. Remarkably, over
1000 segments experience 20 hours or more of congestion and the
nation’s 100 worst bottlenecks were congested an average of
60 hours
each week with the average travel speed less than 14 mph.
The map below shows the geographic distribution of the
nation’s 100
worst bottlenecks, shown in red overlaying the full set of analyzed
roads in green.
The chart below shows the distribution of the nation’s 1000
worst bottlenecks by metropolitan area (CBSA).
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