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Calgary commuters who think their daily drive compares to gridlock in snarled cities such as Los Angeles and New York may have to hit the brakes on their gloomy outlook.

Think of cities such as Buffalo and Sarasota, Fla., and you’re getting much closer to how much time the average Cowtown driver spends in traffic annually, according to a sweeping global traffic scorecard released this month by Inrix Research.

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The exhaustive survey of 1,064 cities in 38 countries, the largest ever study of traffic congestion, combined GPS data from 300 million connected vehicles and devices alongside traditional real-time traffic flow data to rank the best and worst commutes globally.

As it turns out, Calgary motorists, even those who brave Deerfoot Trail daily, have it pretty good.

The study found Calgary drivers spent 15.7 hours total stuck in peak hour traffic last year, which ranks it a mere 159th of cities surveyed, behind such metropolises as Cleveland, Ohio, which has a third of Calgary’s population, and Innsbruck, Austria, boasting a fraction of Calgary’s 1.2 million citizens at just 130,000.