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The article analyzes the impact of the economic crisis on the speed and intensity of traffic on the approaches to large urban centers, describing the Barcelona case, which has a system for monitoring traffic speeds in the arterial network. The economic recession since 2008 has involved a 9.2% reduction in traffic intensities and a parallel decrease in levels of recurrent congestion, which results in increases in traffic flow speeds rush hour at reaching in some places 75% higher values than those recorded in 2007 on a working day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]