# NY/NJ truck planning-time index Road congestion around NY/NJ: the FHWA truck planning-time index, a proxy for drayage conditions, not terminal turn time. Monthly. _Data through Jun 2026 · source last checked Sep 1, 2026 · page revised Aug 20, 2026_ > The NY/NJ truck planning-time index is 2.37 as of Jun 2026, below its trailing-12-month normal of 3.95. This is road congestion around the complex, a proxy for drayage conditions, not the terminal turn time a driver clocks gate to gate. The planning-time index is the ratio of a near-worst-case trip time to free-flow around the port, so a higher number means a wider window a drayage trip has to plan for. The FHWA publishes the planning-time index about two months behind, so June 2026 is the latest reading, not the current week. The truck planning-time index at NY/NJ dropped to 2.37 in June, down 38% from May and 40% year over year, well below its five-year median of 3.93. Road congestion around the complex has eased. The index lags about two months, so June 2026 is the latest reading. ## Period moves and the seasonal vs-N-yr median (a prior-years comparison). The card verdict and the friction board use each series' trailing-12-month median, the friction rule. | Period | Current | Prior | Change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Month over month | 2.37 | 3.82 | -38.0% | | Year over year | 2.37 | 3.97 | -40.3% | | vs 5-yr median | 2.37 | 3.93 | -39.7% | ## About NY/NJ truck planning-time index The truck planning-time index around NY/NJ measures how much longer a drayage trip near the terminals takes relative to free-flow conditions, published monthly by the FHWA. It is a road-congestion signal around the complex, a proxy for dray conditions: it says nothing about ships or boxes, and it is not the terminal truck turn time, the gate-to-gate minutes a driver actually spends inside the terminal that drayage and BCO readers quote. Turn times are the number the harbor trucking trade watches most, but HTA and PMSA publish them as monthly write-ups rather than a clean public data feed, so we do not carry them and use the FHWA planning-time index as the public, consistent proxy instead. A value of 1.0 would be free-flow; the numbers here are the buffer a trucker has to plan for. The FHWA releases it about two months after the month it covers, so the reading here is always the latest month available rather than a live figure. ## About this data - Source: FHWA National Performance Management Research Data Set, via BTS - Series: Truck planning-time index - Basis: Road congestion proxy, not terminal turn time - Geography: NY/NJ - Unit: PTI - Calculation period: Monthly, published about two months behind - Last observation: Jun 2026 - Update frequency: Monthly --- Cite: The truck planning-time index around NY/NJ is 2.37 as of Jun 2026 (FHWA, via BTS; 1.0 is free-flow). The Dwell. https://the-dwell.com/pti/new-york-new-jersey Canonical URL: https://the-dwell.com/pti/new-york-new-jersey