The Spring Festival holiday in 2024 is finally over, after an 8-day long holiday, many partners who start businesses and work in the city have returned, but they have encountered different degrees of congestion on the way back, similar to Guangdong, especially from eastern and western Guangdong to the Pearl River Delta region, and encountered a large traffic jam on the highway, and this traffic jam should be unprecedented.
I asked a few friends who were returning, and they were basically twice or even twice as long as the original commute, which shows the seriousness of this traffic jam.
I have shared with you some reasons for traffic jams before, and today I will talk to you about the biggest reason, which is the congestion of many tens of kilometers in front of the service area.
Highway traffic jams.
We all know that there are many service areas on the highway, these service areas are mainly for the convenience of the public in the long-distance driving process, can take a short break, meal, refuel, go to the toilet, etc., usually without a huge traffic flow, the service area is very convenient for the people.
However, once similar to the Spring Festival holiday, the National Day holiday and other situations appear, there are a variety of problems in the service area: the load is aggravated, the health level is reduced, etc., but more importantly, the scale that a service area can accommodate is fixed, when the scale is exceeded, it leads to a lot of vehicles entering the service area need to wait in line, once the waiting vehicle exceeds the capacity of the service area, then there will be a lot of vehicles need to enter the auxiliary road of the service area, and even extend to the driving lane of the highway beyond the auxiliary road.
Highway traffic jams.
Vehicles on the highway will be cautious during driving, after all, the speed is fast, and that is for safety reasons.
However, once the vehicles that want to enter the service area line up in the normal lane of the highway in order to wait, it will form a domino effect, or the first stopped vehicle, will cause the normal driving vehicle behind to gradually slow down, step by step to form a slow drive, and then become a stop driving.
Vehicles that are 10 kilometers or 20 kilometers away do not know how to drive to the leftmost lane and drive at a normal speed, and for the sake of safety, they all reduce their speeds, so many people feel that there are many "turtle speed" vehicles during the Spring Festival and National Day holidays.
Highway service areas.
The problem of slowdown and congestion in this service area needs to be solved, which is actually difficult to completely solve, and can only alleviate the problem.
I think there are a few things to consider:
First, expand the scope of the service area and consider temporarily opening up more parking spaces in the service area where severe traffic congestion is expected. As long as the service area can accommodate a larger amount of traffic, it can be alleviated, and as for how to find this kind of temporary parking space, I think it may be necessary to use natural resources and other departments to consider a solution, handle the temporary land adjustment and provide venues.
Secondly, a temporary diversion parking area will be opened near the toll entrance and exit of the expressway near the service area. Many highway entrances and exits have relatively wide roads and some idle land resources, which can be temporarily opened up and changed to temporary parking areas during the Spring Festival, which is equivalent to adding multiple service areas at once, so as to accommodate more traffic.
Finally, a special barrier is added to the first 10 kilometers of the service area. It may also be a good idea to divert traffic ahead of time, as vehicles that are not entering the service area can anticipate lanes in advance and move quickly through the upcoming congested road without following slow vehicles.
Of course, if we can achieve traffic big data intelligent allocation of driving resources, it will have better results, but people always consider subjectively, and when it is time to decide, it will be a beat slower.
I don't know if you have any good ways to prevent highway congestion in service areas?
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