Sentence examples for average traffic speed from inspiring English sources

(Average traffic speed: about seven miles per hour, no faster than a running possum).

Three hundred and sixty-six miles were added in the seven years before the slowdown began, even as average traffic speed increased.

Over the past two years, average traffic speed has dropped from 10 miles an hour to nine slower than at any time since the car took over from the horse and carriage.

Without enough cars to cover the city, and much of the fleet locked in worsening congestion in central London, where the average traffic speed has fallen from 12 to less than eight miles an hour since the 1980s, black cabs became vulnerable to competition.

Vehicle trips into or within the cordon area were projected to fall by 100,000 a day and the average traffic speed to increase by 7%.

That could reduce congestion in cities like Shanghai (a target market for this kind of vehicle) where GM says the average traffic speed is 10 mph.

Average traffic speeds in London, at 11mph, are slower than they were a century ago.

Citing GPS data from the city's yellow cabs, the Bloomberg administration said that average traffic speeds in Manhattan's primary central business district, south of 60th Street, had increased nearly 7 percent since 2008.

But average traffic speeds in many cities are already below 40kph and the EN-V's range is well within the typical daily mileage of most urban drivers, says Chris Borroni-Bird, GM's director of advanced vehicle concepts.According to Dr Borroni-Bird, modern cars are over-engineered because they are designed for use between cities, not just within cities.

Survey participants were shown a representative video clip from each segment illustrating a variety of conditions including lane configuration, shoulder configuration, average traffic volume and speed, heavy vehicle percentage, presence of curb, gutter pan, and median facilities.

Average peak period traffic speeds in this part of Tonkin Highway were measured as or less in 2013.