Ever notice how much more tempting it is to pick up fast food for dinner after being stuck in traffic? It's not just you. New University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research shows that traffic delays ...

Handing over 1,000 sq m to Dutch architects MVRDV attracted pedestrians to a foreboding, traffic-clogged part of downtown ... Recently, public bodies on both sides of the motorway worked together to ...

The longer commutes get, the more people stop and get fast food on the way home ... published in the Journal of Urban Economics, examined weekday traffic data from Los Angeles County highways ...

A recent study found that a 30-second delay per mile in traffic leads to a 1% rise in fast food visits, totaling 1.2 million extra visits annually.

More information: Panka Bencsik et al, Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice, Journal of Urban Economics (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2025.103737 ...

The study, “Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice,” is published in the Journal of Urban Economics [DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2025.103737]. Authors include Panka ...