The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) is back this week with its annual list of the top 100 bottlenecks for US truckers. The headline news: For the fourth year in a row, the intersection of I-95 and SR 4 in Fort Lee, New Jersey is once again the number one freight bottleneck in the country.

The 2022 Top Truck Bottleneck List measures the level of truck-involved congestion at over 300 locations on the national highway system. The analysis, based on truck GPS data from over 1 million freight trucks uses several customized software applications and analysis methods, along with terabytes of data from trucking operations to produce a congestion impact ranking for each location. ATRI’s truck GPS data is also used to support the U.S. DOT’s Freight Mobility Initiative. The bottleneck locations detailed in this latest ATRI list represent the top 100 congested locations, although ATRI continuously monitors more than 300 freight-critical locations.

The top 15 US trucking bottlenecks are shown in the graphic below from the ATRI report:

Top US Truck Bottlenecks

Source: ATRI

We're not sure what the formula is to make the rankings - it obviously is not average speeds alone - but it's interesting that Houston and Atlanta both have three bottlenecks in the  top 15.

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