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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Traffic patterns have shifted since the pandemic.</li><li>US drivers are taking 23% more car trips in the middle of the day than they did in 2019.</li></ul>After roads went eerily quiet during the early months of the pandemic, traffic is back with a vengeance. Traffic congestion is as bad as it was pre-pandemic in about half of the world's top urban areas, but traffic patterns have shifted, according to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://inrix.com/press-releases/2023-global-traffic-scorecard-us/">a new report by INRIX</a>, a transportation data and analytics company.Congestion no longer reflects the traditional nine-to-five work schedule. These days, as many Americans start a car trip at noon as do at five pm. Average hourly traffic during the middle of the day is up 23% since 2019, INRIX found.New remote and hybrid work schedules and a rise in car ownership in recent years have transformed traffic and congestion patterns.The INRIX report found that the traditional morning peak rush hour has given way to a steadier pace of trips starting later in the morning. The number of weekday car trips starting in the 6 AM hour fell from around 80 million a day in 2019 to about 50 million in 2023, while about 60 million trips began in the 9 AM hour in 2023, up from a little over 40 million in 2019. Over 75 million trips now start between noon and 1 PM.On the reverse side of the day, midafternoon trips are up and evening trips are down. Putting that all together, it looks like many Americans have shifted from a traditional 9-to-5 commute to a noon-to-4 or even more truncated workday.Bob Pishue, a transportation analyst at INRIX, said that midday travel started to rise when COVID hit, and that pattern hasn't dissipated. Despite many employers pressuring their employees to spend more time in the office, remote work has endured. With more flexible work schedules, people are making more midday trips to the grocery store and the gym, or getting to work late or leaving early."They're either going into work late so that they can continue to drop kids off at school," he said. And "people are still doing midday or two o'clock trips" or leaving early for vacation.Congestion in cities varies based on where jobs are located. "The importance of downtown as a destination for commuting is much different in Dallas than it is in New York," Pishue said, noting that downtown Manhattan is home to far more of its region's jobs than downtown Dallas.INRIX calculates congestion by gathering data from millions of anonymized sensors and vehicles and commercial vehicle data. The report calculated commute times using the time taken to drive "to and from major employment centers within an urban area from surrounding commuting neighborhoods."This travel shift has many implications for policymakers and transportation planners. Mass transit schedules, road tolls, and even traffic lights have long been designed around the 9-to-5 workday and the rush hours that it creates. But traffic data shows cities might need to adjust their schedules and redesign their physical infrastructure to fit the new post-pandemic, remote work paradigm."This is something that now needs attention," Pishue said.<div type="image" title="PJ Clarks in New York City" height="1333" width="2000" msid="112063713" hostid="261" sizebytes="293612"></div><h2 id="1c481284-b034-4152-810b-b67a65681ae4">Congestion is here to stay</h2>Since the pandemic hit, mass transit ridership has plummeted while driving has become more popular.New York City had the worst congestion of any city in the world in 2023, the INRIX report found. Last year, New Yorkers lost an average of 101 hours to congestion delays. The city saw a 13% year-over-year increase in vehicle trips into its downtown — the sharpest increase in the country.Car ownership has also <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-statistics/">risen in recent years</a>, including in New York.Car ownership in the five boroughs has soared over the last decade. While the population of New York City residents rose 1.4% between 2012 and 2021, the number of registered passenger vehicles <a target="_blank" href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/04/19/komanoff-dissects-new-york-citys-car-baby-boom">rose by 12%</a>. Still, about 54% of city households reported not owning a car in 2021.A year into the pandemic, Americans drove more despite many closed offices. People drove 2% more, measured by mileage, across US cities in March 2021 than in February 2020 and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/the-pandemic-changed-car-ownership-how-can-cities-adapt/604497/">20% more than in March 2020</a>, when pandemic lockdowns first took effect.The shift from denser urban living to suburban and even rural living is part of this uptick in driving. Many city dwellers moved into far-flung, car-dependent exurbs and rural towns during the pandemic — and that trend <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-young-kids-families-fleeing-big-cities-urban-doom-loop-2024-7">appears to be continuing</a>. For many, this means more time in their cars.Have you changed your commute in the last couple years? Tell your story to this reporter at <a target="_blank" class="" href="mailto:erelman@businessinsider.com">erelman@businessinsider.com</a>

The noon-to-4 is the new 9-to-5 for driving commuters, but it's not helping traffic congestion

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Thousands of Parisians have been stuck in record levels of <keyword id="6361065" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="traffic">traffic</keyword> as they try to flee the city and head towards the countryside before the national lockdown is imposed at midnight.</li><li>Traffic stretched to 435 miles (706km) in the Île-de-France of <keyword id="106" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Paris">Paris</keyword> on Thursday evening as <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> measures are set to be enforced amid the growing number of cases, <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-30/covid-record-breaking-440-mile-traffic-jam-stretches-around-paris-as-residents-flee-second-lockdown">ITV</a> reported.</li><li><a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-30/covid-record-breaking-440-mile-traffic-jam-stretches-around-paris-as-residents-flee-second-lockdown">ITV</a> added that according to figures from the official traffic monitoring website, <a href="http://www.sytadin.fr">Sytadin</a>, the traffic jams broke the previous French record of 629km reached during the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/traffic-jams-cripple-paris-as-pension-strikes-halt-trains-2019-12">public transport strikes</a> last December.</li><li>The French have been ordered to stay at home unless leaving home for essential work, medical reasons, buying essential goods, or undertaking their one-hour allocation of exercise.</li><li>They will also be required to carry documents that provide evidence of this and could be subject to police checks and fined at €135 ($158) if they are not eligible to leave their homes.</li><li>The news comes as <keyword id="6354785" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="france">France</keyword> reached over a million coronavirus cases on Thursday, according to the <a href="https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea">European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)</a>.</li></ul>Thousands of Parisians were stuck in record levels of traffic as they escaped the city and headed to the countryside to make the best of the national lockdown imposed at midnight Thursday.Traffic stretched to a cumulative 435 miles (706km) in the Île-de-France region of Paris early on Thursday evening, <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-30/covid-record-breaking-440-mile-traffic-jam-stretches-around-paris-as-residents-flee-second-lockdown">ITV</a> reported.Professor Michael E. Webber from the University of Texas tweeted a video of the traffic jam with the caption: "Incredible traffic jam in Paris as people try to leave the city before 9 pm curfew and before confinement begins at midnight."Traffic is barely moving in every direction as far as the eye can see. Lots of honking and frustrated drivers."The chaos was worsened by families returning to the cities after the French school holidays and longer queues than usual also built up around the cities of Lyon and Bordeaux, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54742795">BBC</a>.The French must stay at home unless leaving home for essential work, medical reasons, buying essential goods, or undertaking their one-hour allocation of exercise.They will also be required to carry documents that provide evidence and be subject to police checks and fined at €135 ($158) if they are not eligible to leave their homes.In a televised address to the nation, President Emmanuel Macron said: "The virus is circulating at a speed that not even the most pessimistic forecasts has anticipated. "We are all in the same position: overrun by a second wave which we know will be harder, more deadly than the first. I've decided that we need to return to the lockdown which halted the virus."However, schools and creches will remain open with French Prime Minister Jean Castex announcing yesterday that schoolchildren aged six and up will now have to wear face masks rather than just children aged 11 and over, according to <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/france/20201029-france-braces-for-new-covid-19-lockdown-rules-to-be-detailed-by-pm-castex">France 24</a>.The lockdown will be enforced until December 1, although the government's scientific adviser, Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, told <a href="https://www.franceinter.fr/direct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">France Inter Radio</a> that it is likely to extend beyond this, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/france/20201029-france-braces-for-new-covid-19-lockdown-rules-to-be-detailed-by-pm-castex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">France 24</a> added.Initially, Macron announced a 9pm curfew in Paris and other major French cities but officials this week acknowledged that the measure had been insufficient in decreasing infection rates and required a more drastic response, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-france/macron-orders-france-back-into-covid-19-lockdown-idUKKBN27D2WG">Reuters</a> reported.The news comes as France enters its second full lockdown amid the growing rate of coronavirus cases with the country, reaching over a million on Thursday, according to the <a href="https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea">European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)</a>.

Paris region grinds to a standstill in record gridlock as people escape to the countryside ahead of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="11894125" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tiktok" source="Orion">TikTok</keyword> video shows a Canadian cop telling "<keyword id="13123564" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="freedom-convoy" source="Orion">Freedom Convoy</keyword>" trucker protesters he supports them.</li><li>The officer in the purported traffic stop lets the trucker go with a warning.</li></ul>Canadian police said they have launched an internal investigation after <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bamybear/video/7063926421722254597?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1">a TikTok video</a> appeared to show an <keyword id="12614767" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ontario" source="Orion">Ontario</keyword> police officer telling a "Freedom Convoy" protester he supported them after issuing a warning during a traffic stop.In the video posted to TikTok on Sunday by user <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bamybear">@bamybear</a>, the Ontario Provincial Police officer told the driver in the vehicle that he was driving with his "lights on." It wasn't immediately clear which set of lights the officer was referring to. "You don't have to record me, I'm not going to give you guys a ticket," the officer said to a person sitting in the passenger seat, who was filming the interaction. After the officer and the two people inside the truck joked with each other and discussed TikTok videos, the officer told the driver that he supported the trucker protesters."I get what you guys are doing, I support you guys 100%," he said in an apparent reference to Canada's ongoing anti-government and anti-vaccine mandate demonstrations. "I have been to <keyword id="13081762" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ottawa" source="Orion">Ottawa</keyword> — a lot of us are — I've heard nothing but great things for our protesters, everyone is very polite, very thankful," the officer said.Despite the officer saying that the reason he pulled the truck over is usually a "big fine," he did not issue a ticket in the video. The officer said the truck's lights were causing "a lot of confusion on the road.""Wait 'til you get there," he added with a smile.When the passenger in the truck asked if the officer wanted to join them, he said: "I want to, but we need some officers up here."The TikTok user who uploaded the video did not return Insider's request for comment Monday.The Ontario Provincial Police said in a statement it launched an internal investigation into the incident, adding it "raised concerns about professionalism and depicts opinions that are not in line with the OPP's values.""We recognize that views expressed by the member has caused public upset," the OPP wrote in a statement on <a href="https://twitter.com/OPP_News/status/1492981577852325894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1492981577852325894%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fvideo-officer-appearing-support-freedom-convoy-protests-sparks-probe-canada-1678950">Twitter</a>. "The OPP does not condone current illegal activity."It added: "Officers must maintain the highest standard of conduct, integrity, and ethical behavior."The OPP did not immediately return Insider's request for comment Monday.For weeks, thousands of Canadian truckers and demonstrators have protested COVID-19 lockdown measures and cross-border vaccination requirements as part of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-freedom-convoy-and-why-are-canadians-protesting-2022-2?_ga=2.220502616.1178250202.1644845592-229674823.1644506262">"Freedom Convoy."</a>Doug Ford, Ontario's premier, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ontario-declares-state-of-emergency-over-trucker-protests-2022-2">declared a widespread state of emergency</a> on Friday, calling the demonstrations against cross-border vaccine mandates that have left Ottawa in gridlock an "illegal occupation." The TikTok video has amassed over 240,000 views in the day since it was posted, with 27,000 likes and over 1,000 comments. It's uses the "#freedomconvoy," which has over 300 million views on the platform across all videos.Many users commented in support of the exchange, with one writing they "love this cop" and another who said they had the "utmost respect for this guy." On Twitter, where the video also circulated, the OPP's decision to investigate the incident appeared to be more popular.

TikTok video shows Canadian cop telling trucker protester he supports them '100%' after giving a warning during a traffic stop

<ul><li><keyword id="3123096" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="ZIRCA-Digital-Solutions">Zirca Digital Solutions</keyword>’ whitepaper highlights the uptick in home cooking, consumption of more cooking-related content and many more.</li><li>According to the report, traffic on e-grocery platforms increased to 15 million post covid as compared to 10 million pre-covid.</li></ul>Zirca Digital Solutions, a 360-degree digital solutions provider for brands has launched a white paper on the “Food and Beverage trends” as part of their “Ungeek” series. Ungeek is a series of colourful, simplified, easy-to-absorb, insight-driven research reports and thought-pieces that are invaluable to the modern marketer. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about profound changes to consumer behaviour which are here to stay. It has impacted the way consumers think. Audiences are now defining their likes, thoughts and preferences and seeking newer avenues to meet their needs. During the onset of the pandemic, consumers had to adapt quickly to find new ways to fend for themselves and discover alternative options to perform even mundane tasks. These changes affected not just individuals and homes, but large corporations and industries. Like most sectors, the food &amp; beverages sector has also been significantly impacted by the pandemic. Zirca Digital Solutions’ whitepaper, “Food and Beverage Trends in the New Normal” examines behavioural changes that have been prevalent during the lockdown. The white paper focuses on key changes such as New Kitchen Development, Health is Wealth, Safety and Convenience, and lastly the new age influencers. 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According to SEMRUSH, there was an increase of 515% in search volumes of how to bake bread, and 616% increase of how to bake bread at home. • Pandemic also acted as a catalyst in shaping new personas. 4 personas that were identified were - people who cooks food to monetize, cooks food to unwind, cooks for better nutrition, and cooks passively, by default. Safety and Convenience: Digital paved a new path into the new normal as consumers flocked online to shop for daily groceries. • According to BCG report, e-commerce saw a rise of 1.3 - 1.5x no of buyers for essential food (fresh food, staples, packaged food and beverages), 1.4x increase in the no of categories shopped online, and 45% increase in online spends. •Traffic on e-grocery platforms increased to 15 Mn post covid as compared to 10 Mn pre covid. •Unexpected alliances and new business models were formed as companies adapted to help deliver essentials to the consumers - - Zomato and Swiggy delivered essential goods - Flipkart tied up with cab services like Uber and Meru to deliver essentials - Dominos and ITC joined hands to deliver essential goods •As audiences experienced better services from various e-comm portals, they soon realized the resultant benefit of ordering grocery online was convenient. Health is Wealth: The fear of catching Covid-19 led to people adopting healthy food diets, and fitness regimes to improve their immunity. Post Q2, 2020 this category has been in a constant upswing. • Daily visitors on diet, exercise and fitness portals increased from 37 Mn in Jan 2020 to 41 Mn in Feb 2021. Total time spent on these portals also increased from 3393 Mn Mins in Jan 2020 to 4064 Mn Mins in Jan 2021 New Age Influencers: The rise of influencers and cloud kitchens are shaping the way commoners consume content. The need for guidance was picked up by influencers (Bloggers, YouTubers, Podcasters, Instagramers, etc) and cloud kitchens, each trying to get the attention of the masses. <keyword id="3123098" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Neena-Dasgupta">Neena Dasgupta</keyword>, CEO and Director, Zirca Digital Solutions, said, "Our Ungeek initiative has seen massive traction within the trade and marketing fraternity. Everybody just loved the way complicated statistics were explained and presented. During pandemic, food and its ancillary activities got a whole new meaning. It became passion, profession hobby, past time and even problem for some and which is why our second white paper is focused on <keyword id="119074" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="food-and-beverage">food and beverage</keyword> trends. At Zirca, we have always believed in knowledge-based approach with consumers at the epicentre of all that we do. We feel it is our duty to share knowledge with all brands and partners and help them take smart and informed decisions for their businesses. With Ungeek, we hope to being a part of our partner’s journey by facilitating meaningful conversations."

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