Waze is the traffic partner of the Tour de France 2022. The application will help spectators navigate throughout the event to the best spots or to avoid traffic jams.
Are you a cycling enthusiast and want to attend the Tour de France? So Waze can become your greatest ally, during the race weeks. Indeed, the application will be the “Official Traffic Partner” of the Great Loopreveals Jérôme Marty, Country Manager France of Waze.
Concretely, the software will be useful « pour know the best spots where to see the runners pass or to avoid traffic jams due to closed roadscontinues Jérôme Marty. Waze is here to help you throughout the Tour period! »
For this, Waze will map more than 4,000 kilometers of closed roads to traffic during the stages. The application will navigate based on open roads or not. This will be particularly useful for Paris, Lille or even Saint-Étienne. These are the largest cities on the event map.
Waze predicts traffic increases for the 2022 Tour de France
Over 30 Waze community volunteers will be responsible for updating the map for users. Necessary work when you know the traffic that the Tour generates. In Alpe d’Huez, one of the most famous portions of the Grande Boucle, traffic increases by an average of 70% the day the competitors pass.
In Paris, the increase is 20%. We pity Anne Hidalgo! More generally, Waze saw navigation to restaurants in France explode by almost 90% during the Tour 2021. All this is explained by the popularity of the event but also by the passage of many official cars in the stages.
Remember that the Tour de France 2022 will be contested from July 1 to 24. The start will be given from Copenhagen, before branching off towards France. Calais, Lille, Saint-Etienne and even Carcassonne are on the programme. The finish will take place in Paris, on the Champs-Élysées.
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