I’ve always looked for a good traffic site or service that gave accurate real-time traffic information with delay times. Sirius has a good traffic channel and each city often has their own service, but Traffic.com has scores of cities around the US with live traffic data.
Each road has detailed information on average speen, slowest point, travel and delay times, as well as the road’s Jam Factor, a number telling how heavy the traffic is and how quickly that might be changing. Below you’ll see that this road has a Jam Factor of 2.4 and the trend shows conditions are quickly getting worse.
You can even customize routes and be notified at certain times and when traffic gets bad. Have Traffic.com email you 30 minutes before you leave work so you can find out the traffic conditions for your route home and decide whether to leave now or later. This is tied with their free hotline 866 MY TRAFC where you can get an overview of a particular road or listen to your custom drive routes.
