As a citizen of a larger European city, I have perceived urban area traffic to be quite messy and unpredictable. However, based on personal experience each of us has built up some gut-feeling about certain busy streets and quickest routes through our hometowns, maybe even dependent on the time of the day.
In this article, I attempt to test these conjectures by analytically deriving the traffic density of the City of Vienna on a granular level. I do this by combining two publicly available sources: