Metro Las Vegas is one of the moderately congested regions for automobile traffic in the nation, as is shown consistently in various national transportation studies.

According to a transportation study by INRIX Inc. (a high tech telematics transportation company) metro Las Vegas ranked #40 out of the top 100 worst traffic congested cities in the USA... the INRIX study also determined the peak weekly traffic period in metro Las Vegas to be on Friday afternoons between the hours of 5pm - 6pm.

According to another traffic study by the Texas Transportation Institute, the TTI ranked metro Las Vegas #19 out of the top 20 most congested cities as measured by the number of hours commuters endured in extra travel time during rush hour traffic... the TTI determined metro Las Vegas residents waste approx. an extra 51 hours per year traveling in local rush-hour traffic.