Executive Summary
Foreword
Introduction
Rankings
Two Pillars
Safety
Fleet Management
City Snapshots
What This Means
Outlook
Methodology
Two pillars, two stories
Cities ranked by congestion performance:
The Index measures two dimensions for each city. Together, they tell very different stories about why some cities enable efficient freight movement and others do not. How traffic flows This dimension measures three things: congestion burden (how much congestion accumulates across the day), uncongested windows (how many hours traffic flows freely), and predictability (how consistent journey times are day to day).
The predictability insight
Rome and Paris have severe congestion but highly predictable journey times (variability scores of 80 and 82 respectively). Extreme congestion creates its own predictability: when roads are saturated, traffic settles into a stable, slow-moving equilibrium. London sits in the worst position: congested AND unpredictable. The same delivery route can take 20 minutes one day and 50 minutes the next. Predictable congestion lets fleet managers plan around it. Unpredictable congestion breaks schedules, customer commitments and driver utilisation.
61 Berlin
55 Amsterdam
Scores span a 3.8x range — this is where the real differentiation between cities happens.
48 Dublin
Madrid scores essentially zero on both congestion burden and uncongested windows, meaning congestion exceeds critical levels at every hour of the day. London is close behind with near-zero scores on both measures. Berlin benefits from a polycentric city layout and wide boulevards that distribute traffic load across the network. Its variability score (82) is among the highest: congestion is not only moderate, it is predictable.
39 Rome
30 Paris
21 London
16 Madrid
European Urban Freight Efficiency Index
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