Estimated travel time tool

To help us all understand the personal travel implications of these changes, the City of Waterloo has collaborated with TraffMobility to create an estimated travel time tool. This tool allows you to enter your starting point, and your destination, and will then show estimated travel time using the speed limits for existing conditions, Option A and Option B. (The tool uses Waterloo open data and Google Maps data to output the estimated time of arrival for each proposed option.)

Please note that the difference in travel times within the tool is expressed using decimals: a time difference of an additional 0.09 minutes is about 5-6 seconds.

It is important to note that the travel time estimates created by this tool only consider travel speeds at the posted speed limits for each scenario. Future travel times will be estimated based on historical data.

Try the estimated travel time tool to see the impact of the two options on your travel times.

For example, to go from Edna Staebler Public School (450 Bernay Drive) to Sandowne Public School (265 Sandowne Drive) takes about 16.45 minutes (about 16 minutes, 27 seconds) under our current conditions. According to the estimated travel time tool, Option A would increase the travel time by 0.31 minutes (about 19 seconds), and Option B would increase the travel time by 1.36 minutes (about 1 minute, 26 seconds).