Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is asking governors and mayors to identify their worst traffic bottlenecks to obtain federal assistance to ease congestion.
April 27, 2026GovernmentBusinessTechnologySafety
ATRI President Rebecca Brewster to Retire in 2027
American Transportation Research Institute President Rebecca Brewster will retire in early 2027 after 34 years with the organization, including 25 as its leader.
April 21, 2026BusinessSafetyLogistics
ATRI: Chicago Home to Worst Truck Bottleneck
Chicago’s Interstate 294 at I‑290/I‑88 has been named the nation’s top freight bottleneck in 2026, according to a new analysis from the American Transportation Research Institute.
March 2, 2026BusinessTechnologyLogistics
MasterMind TMS: A Modern Solution for Private Fleets
Learn how Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) eliminated manual bottlenecks and optimized fleet operations with Mastery's cloud-native platform. By leveraging real-time visibility and Mastery's proprietary driver mobile app, KDP has improved communication, streamlined load execution, and enhanced data-driven decision-making.
March 18, 2025BusinessSafety
Watch: I-95 in Fort Lee, N.J., Still Worst Truck Bottleneck
American Transportation Research Institute's latest analysis highlights significant congestion at key intersections nationwide, with Fort Lee, N.J., topping the list again.
February 18, 2025BusinessLogistics
ATRI: I-95 in Fort Lee, N.J., Still Worst Truck Bottleneck
ATRI's analysis, based on an extensive database of freight truck GPS data, uses several customized software applications and analysis methods, along with data from trucking operations.
February 12, 2025BusinessSafety
Top Truck Bottlenecks Mostly the Same, Just More Congested
A familiar congested highway spot in Fort Lee, N.J., outside New York City, once again tops American Transportation Research Institute's list of the nation’s worst trucking chokepoints.
February 13, 2024BusinessTechnologySafetyLogistics
Tracking Trucking's Top Bottlenecks
American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) recently released the 2023 Top Truck Bottleneck List with Fort Lee, NJ claiming the top spot for the fifth year in a row. The in-depth analysis provides vital insight into truck-involved congestion points, highway traffic trends, and infrastructure investment opportunities. How much has the list changed since last year? How can this research be used to further conversations on funding and regional regulations? Rebecca Brewster, President and Chief Operating Officer of ATRI, joins Dan Ronan to help breakdown the top highway bottlenecks and discuss opportunities to address supply chain challenges.
February 9, 2023Business
Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks: 2020 ATRI Ranking Has Familiar Chokepoints
This is one ranking where you probably don't want to repeat as champion, but for the second year in a row, the approach to the George Washington Bridge heading into New York from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River is being cited as the nation's worst truck bottleneck.
February 19, 2020GovernmentSafetyEditorial
Editorial: Good Places to Start
In the nine years that the American Transportation Research Institute has been producing a list of the worst bottlenecks in the United States, three spots have had the inauspicious honor of landing at the top of the list. These same three are consistently awful, even if from year to year one is worse than the others.
February 14, 2019