Its December figures ended a good year for the airport, which reported an annual traffic increase of 4.2%.
You may think your daily commute might be bad, but drivers in Brussels face the worst traffic jams in the world according to the annual Traffic Scorecard compiled by traffic and navigation service provider INRIX in Kirkland, Wash.
It justified the cost by estimating annual river traffic of 12 million tons.
The good news for commuters is that traffic congestion in the U.S. decreased by an average of 30 percent last year, according to the annual National Traffic Scorecard conducted by traffic and navigation service provider INRIX in Kirkland, Wash.
The company cites a Cisco prediction that by 2015, annual global Internet traffic will cross the one zettabyte level, a fourfold increase from 2010 levels.
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Mexico's large surplus is partly reflected in America's deficit: the route between Mexico and the United States is the second busiest for international traffic, after the route between Canada and the United States, according to the annual survey of global telecommunications traffic statistics, just published by TeleGeography, a consultancy.
In every month from March through July, all (or all but one) states are above their annual average in search traffic.
In comparison with cities of a similar size in population, drivers in the city of San Jose waste a cumulative of 10 million more annual hours sitting in traffic jams and suffer a 15% higher commute delay per peak-time traveler.
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According to Cisco, the global cloud traffic will grow at an annual rate of 45% and reach 4.3 zetabytes by 2016, while global data center traffic will grow to 6.6 zetabytes.
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This mobile data traffic increase represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 78 percent spanning the forecast period.
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Last week, the Texas Transportation Institute released its annual Urban Mobility Report, a collection of terrifying traffic stats that arrive on a beeline to transit beat reporters.
In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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Airline traffic is expected to skyrocket to 1 billion annual passengers by 2021.
It notes a doubling of traffic every 100 days, or about a twelvefold annual rise.
On average, iPhone, Android or Windows Phone handset owners consumed 35 times more data traffic than a typical phone user, said the annual Deloitte report.
By the late 1980's, drug cartels were estimated to control between 75 to 80 percent of the cocaine traffic, employ nearly 100, 000 Colombians and secure annual incomes of between two to four billion dollars.
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In 2012-2017, mobile data traffic is forecast to grow 17-fold at a compound annual growth rate of 76%.
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More flights, especially between Europe and South Africa and from Africa to Mecca during the annual Muslim pilgrimage, the haj, have put a strain on air-traffic control: some controllers do not even answer pilots' calls.
Kinder Morgan's chairman, Richard Kinder, thinks the company can maintain 15% annual dividend growth for the next four years through a combination of acquisitions and increased traffic on the properties it owns.
Projections now (once again) have us filling the oceanic cables up with data within the next five or so years, and for the global carriers of Internet traffic, the demand growth is finally rising fast enough to make up for their annual price declines.
It also called for a "traffic light" system in stores to mark out healthy and unhealthy foods, and for annual fat tests for children.
At the time, the company was touting increases Web traffic that, if continued, would land them a spot among the top destination sites worldwide: annual growth of 300 percent and a whopping 1.7 million SEO-friendly Ning Networks created.
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