The Hague is the slowest city in the Netherlands
It is no secret that Amsterdam is an expensive city to live in. The city is also hardly affordable anymore for motorists with a petrol or diesel car. This and more is evident from the annual TomTom Traffic Index from – you can feel it coming – TomTom.
Amsterdam is the most expensive and most polluting city in the Netherlands for and by motorists. Those are not our words, but those of TomTom in its annual TomTom Traffic Index. Their data shows that the average car journey with a petrol car in the Netherlands was 10 percent cheaper last year than in 2022. An average journey with a diesel was even 14 percent cheaper in 2023. This is mainly because fuel prices were much higher in 2022. The average ride may have become cheaper, but on average we spend more on petrol and diesel on an annual basis, according to TomTom. Traffic congestion is said to be the cause.
According to the TomTom Traffic Index, Amsterdam is the most expensive city in the Netherlands for motorists. Anyone who drives 10,000 kilometers in the capital annually will spend an average of €1,411 with a petrol car and €1,139 with a diesel. Do you have an electric car? Then you will spend €837 for those kilometers in Amsterdam. In places two to five are Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven. Rotterdam is the most expensive city in the Netherlands for electric driving. There you would spend €840 for 10,000 kilometers. With an amount of €751 kilometers for the same number of kilometers, Nijmegen is the most affordable city in the Netherlands for EV drivers.
Amsterdam is the most expensive for cars with a combustion engine, but according to the TomTom Index it is also the most polluting. Petrol cars in Amsterdam would pump an average of 1,651 kilos of CO2 into the atmosphere for 10,000 kilometers per year, and diesels 1,613 kilos. Places two to five include Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven.
Fortunately for Amsterdam, it escapes the title of ‘slowest city in the Netherlands’ in the TomTom Traffic Index. It goes to The Hague. According to the TomTom Traffic Index, motorists in The Hague spend no less than 72 hours and 38 minutes in delays per year on a route of 10 kilometers there and 10 kilometers back during rush hour. That is 1 hour and 25 minutes more than in 2022. The flow is best in Almere: there you spend 25 hours and 32 minutes extra time on an annual basis for the same commute due to delays. After The Hague, Utrecht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam and Amsterdam are the slowest cities during rush hour. It’s not as bad as London. For comparable daily commuting, you lose no less than 158 hours of extra time annually due to delays. However, nowhere else is the average speed during rush hour as low as in London: 14 km/h.
For its research, TomTom says it collected data from more than 600 million devices. Also consider navigation systems in telephones.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl