Boston-area drivers spent, on average, 164 hours caught in traffic in 2018 according to traffic data firm INRIX, equivalent to a whole month of workdays.

The Baker administration’s study of growing roadway congestion, which was originally supposed to be released earlier this summer and then promised by the end of the month, will now be published early next week, the governor said Wednesday.

Asked during a budget-signing ceremony if the report would be released Wednesday – the date he targeted six days ago – Gov. Charlie Baker said it would be out “by the beginning of [next] week.”

Baker pointed to the fiscal year 2020 budget, including two amendments he filed related to wind procurement and the meals tax, as a higher priority given that lawmakers are preparing to take an August recess.

“Normally we would have had this budget until Thursday or Friday,” Baker said. “That’s really when it was due. But if you need the legislature to do something affirmative to deal with the wind issue and the meals tax issue, we knew it needed to get done today. As a result, a few things got pushed aside so we could finish it today.”

Baker ordered the study in August 2018 after vetoing legislation that would have implemented a congestion-pricing pilot. At the time, he told the Department of Transportation to take nine months for an analysis of “when, where and why congestion is getting worse in the commonwealth and what additional policies and programs should be put in place to address it.”

While the results are not yet publicly known, Baker said some of the findings helped inform an $18 billion transportation bond bill he filed last week. That borrowing plan, among other initiatives, proposed a $2,000-per-employee tax credit to businesses that allow working from home, something Baker suggested would take cars off the road and reduce traffic.