Traffic levels fell over 60% during hard lockdown
By Staff Reporter
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Cape Town - Traffic levels fell by more than 60% in Gauteng and Western Cape when the hard lockdown was enforced in April last year, a recent study on Lockdown Traffic Patterns showed.
Provider of spatial data and analysis, Lightstone, together with leading vehicle telematics provider, Tracker, analysed aggregated and anonymised data from a significant portion of Tracker’s more than 1.2 million subscriptions across the country to assess the effect lockdown had on traffic.
“The dataset provided an extensive view of vehicle stops within designated suburbs in the three provinces from February to November,” said Linda Reid of Lightstone.
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Traffic levels fell dramatically by more than 60% in Gauteng and the Western Cape when the hard lockdown was enforced in April 2020. But a study by Lightstone and Tracker found that traffic levels from certain areas to commercial nodes fell by between 10-15% less than traffic in more affluent areas.
The study of traffic levels by Lightstone, the provider of accurate spatial data and analysis together with Tracker, South Africa s leading vehicle telematics provider, analysed aggregated and anonymised data from a significant portion of Tracker s more than 1.2 million subscriptions across South Africa, to assess the effect Lockdown has had on traffic. The dataset provided an extensive view of vehicle stops within designated suburbs in the three provinces from February to November this year.