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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) : Global Driver Satisfaction Index

Metro Manila was named as having the worst traffic in the world based on a survey of 50 million users of the GPS navigation app Waze in 32 countries. Manila scored extremely poorly on traffic levels and average commute times, which were used along with road quality, safety, driver services, socioeconomic factors, and the Waze community experience to calculate overall driver satisfaction for 167 major cities. Manila ranked near the bottom with the longest average commute time of 45.5 minutes and had the lowest socioeconomic score due to high gas prices and low car ownership. However, the Philippines scored well on driver services and safety.

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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) : Global Driver Satisfaction Index

Metro Manila was named as having the worst traffic in the world based on a survey of 50 million users of the GPS navigation app Waze in 32 countries. Manila scored extremely poorly on traffic levels and average commute times, which were used along with road quality, safety, driver services, socioeconomic factors, and the Waze community experience to calculate overall driver satisfaction for 167 major cities. Manila ranked near the bottom with the longest average commute time of 45.5 minutes and had the lowest socioeconomic score due to high gas prices and low car ownership. However, the Philippines scored well on driver services and safety.

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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) Metro Manila, on an urban level, was

named as having the "worst traffic on Earth," based on a global evaluation


conducted by Waze, a GPS-based navigation app.
Scores ranging from 10 (satisfying) to 1 (miserable) were assigned after
examining 50 million Waze users in 32 countries and 167 major city areas.
The answers were then evaluated for the Global Driver Satisfaction
Index posted on Waze's website Tuesday (September 29).
The Waze Global Driver Satisfaction Index were based on six key factors:
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Traffic level by frequency and severity of traffic jams


Road quality and infrastructure
Driver safety based on accidents, road hazards, and weather
Driver services like access to gas stations and easy parking
Socio-economic (World Bank) including access to cars and impact of gas
prices
6. Wazeyness, the level of helpfulness and happiness within the Waze
community

Worst traffic on Earth


According to the survey, Manila, on a city level, ranked number one with
the "worst traffic on Earth" with Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Jakarta not
far behind.
Manila scored a measly 0.4 in the traffic index and the Philippines ranked
as the ninth worst place to drive.
The survey said Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, Czech Republic, and U.S.
reported an easy and breezy driving experience.
It said that globally, traffic or the lack of it is a key indicator of driver
satisfaction.

The Philippine government has proposed various ways to ease EDSA, a


major thoroughfare in Metro Manila, such as the implementation of the
Highway Patrol Group of the Philippine National Police to untangle traffic,
the opening of alternate routes dubbed as Mabuhay Lanes, and the
construction of modular steel bridges in five areas.

Longest commute time


Manila again topped the survey for the longest minutes spent commuting
from home to office with an average time of 45.5 minutes. The survey
recorded Jakarta with 42.1 minutes of travel time.
In an exclusive story published earlier, CNN Philippines reporters traveled
EDSA one morning and took 41 minutes via the Metro Rail Transit from
North Avenue in Quezon City to Taft in Pasay City, and two hours and 15
minutes via a bus ride.
Related: How to keep calm while stuck in traffic
In half of the cities Waze analyzed, the average speed of cars on the roads
were less than 63.15 kilometers per hour.

Other key factors


The Philippines ranked the lowest in the socio-economic index with a score
of 0, which accounts for gas prices and access to cars or ratio of cars to the
population.
The country was the 13th country with the worst road quality, such as poor
high-speed roads density and road issues density, with a score of 5.8.
Filipino Wazers were the among the worst in the "Wazeyness" index, which
records the gratitude and happiness by the Waze users.
But it isnt all bad in the Philippines.
The country scored the best country in the drivers' services among the
surveyed countries. This means there are ample amounts of gas stations,
car services, and parking lots.
The Philippines is the fourth best in safety, according to the survey. Taken
into account are the number of accidents, hazards, and weather.

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