The line table provides information about a quantity of hours’ latency, which passengers have faced in multi-sized towns in the twenty-year period that also included a projection indicators for 2025.
To begin with, small cities were the category which experiences the least time deviation from the schedule, collecting only 7 hours in 1985, which was three times as low as in the years 1995 and 2015. Nevertheless come to the 2025 this amount should decrease to only 20 in small towns. However in 2005 it reached its peak numbering 27 hours in small cities, 31 in medium ones and 42 in large cities. Having a look at the medium and large cities, it is clear that downward trend appeared, in 2015 delays felt to 21 hours in medium-sized and 36 in large ones. This decline is expected to continue by 2025, with predicted values of 15 and 30 hours respectively.
Furthermore, it is clear that the number of delays in metropolis cities is continuing to raise in significant progression, reaching the highest figures in 2005 that counted roughly 60 hours, while 1995 and 2015 database identifies only 50 hours, which was approximately three time higher than 1985’s scores. But coming to the 2025 it drop to about 40 hours.
Overall, the table shows that larger cities consistently suffered higher delays than smaller ones, but the gap is forecast to narrow slightly by 2025 due to improvements that may reduce congestion.