{"id":45729,"date":"2020-04-30T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/covid-19-lets-freight-move-more-easily-study-says\/"},"modified":"2020-04-30T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:44:02","slug":"covid-19-lets-freight-move-more-easily-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/covid-19-lets-freight-move-more-easily-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 lets freight move more easily, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by Kirkland&rsquo;s INRIX has found the COVID-19 pandemic has affected both personal and freight travel.<\/p>\n<p>Personal travel has been reduced by 46 percent nationwide, and freight truck travel is down 13 percent, according to INRIX, <a href=\"https:\/\/inrix.com\/campaigns\/impact-of-coronavirus-on-freight-movement-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a company that analyzes transportation data.<\/a> Freight-heavy corridors in urban areas have seem significant travel speed increases, allowing goods to reach their destinations faster.<\/p>\n<p>Across the U.S., schools, factories, restaurants and more have scaled back services or shut down. As a result, traffic and congestion have plummeted, according to the report. Washington state has seen a 10 percent reduction in freight travel. Southern Gulf states like Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have seen a 17 percent reduction.<\/p>\n<p>In the Seattle area, morning commute speeds have increased by a quarter, and evening commute speeds have increased by 31 percent. San Francisco saw the greatest gains, with 51 percent and 60 percent for morning and evening commutes, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Before the pandemic, traffic congestion resulted in some $88 billion lost to time idling for commercial and personal drivers across the country. As a result of COVID-19, nearly half of nationwide freight movers have been able to shed some of the congestion costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by Kirkland-based INRIX examines the trend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,4,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-home2","category-news","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45729"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}