Traffic jam on main roads in Zhengzhou. (Photo : Getty Images)
The capital of Shandong Province, Jinan, is considered to have the worst traffic, according to a report released by AutoNavi Software Co.
The report also indicated that one-third of 100 China's cities faced worsening traffic congestion in 2016.
The cause for the traffic is the heavy volume of cars and the bad public transportation system. The city is heavily congested and is adding to the worsening problem.
The report also stated that in the 32 Chinese cities, it takes 1.8 times as long to travel from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. compared to travel time during off-peak hours.
However, there are 36 cities where traffic has improved as what was seen in Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Traffic is worse in 2016 in Beijing but is less congested compared to Jinan and Harbin.
According to the National Institute for Health, road traffic injuries is a major cause of death in China. Road congestion and lack of road safety consciousness trigger fatalities on the road.
The N.I.H. stated: "As the foundation of injury prevention, national-level data sources and surveillance systems were reviewed in the study. Existing data infrastructures present the Chinese government a great opportunity to strengthen and integrate existing surveillance systems to better track road traffic injury and fatality and identify the population at risk."
During holidays, traffic is worse in China. In 2010, a 100-meter long traffic was seen in China's major highways because of National Day festivities and road construction. The traffic lasted for 11 days.
"If there's no traffic jam in the city, that would be news," said Niu Fengrui, director of the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Liu Zhichang, a researcher on economic and social development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "One of the solutions for megacities is to shift noncore functional zones to suburban areas of the city to avoid traffic problems caused by the population concentration in the center of the city."
