These Indian cities among world's most congested in 2021

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Four cities from India featured in the 11th edition of the TomTom Traffic Index’s global top 25 list – with Mumbai at the fifth position, Bengaluru at the 10th position, New Delhi at the 11th position, and Pune at the 21st position. The TomTom Traffic Index looks at the traffic congestion situation in various cities in the world.

Mumbai was India’s top and the world’s fifth-most congested city in 2021, as per the latest index. With a congestion level of 62 percent, Instanbul topped the list as the most congested city across the world in 2021.

Mumbai’s congestion level was 53 percent last year, followed by Bengaluru and New Delhi at 48 percent each and Pune at 42 percent, according to the report detailing traffic trends in 404 cities across 58 countries.

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The TomTom index provides real-time traffic management and historical traffic congestion data to help countries plan their infrastructure projects and initiate more public transport schemes.

Mumbai’s worst traffic day was on August 21, 2021, when three religious occasions coincided, according to the report. Pune slipped to the 21st position globally, from last year’s 16th position and recorded a 29 percent average decrease in congestion - with 46 percent and 37 percent average decrease during the morning and evening rush hours, respectively.

The geolocation technological index calculates the baseline per city by analysing the free-flow travel times of all vehicles on the entire road network throughout the year.

Congestion level percentage indicates the extra travel time a driver has to spend for reaching from one location to another over and above the time required in the normal and free-flow traffic situation.