Fast Technology reported on February 4 that according to official data, since the Spring Festival train tickets went on sale on January 12, the railway 12306 system has sold a total of 39.8 billion, including 2 tickets during the Spring Festival5.8 billion.
12306 registered users successfully log in 3584 per day20,000 people, with a single day's highest successful login of 448980,000 person-times; The average daily page views are 622100 million times, with a single-day maximum of 875600 million times.
The 12306 Internet ticketing system has withstood the pressure of ultra-large-scale concurrent access, successfully passed the peak of pre-holiday ticketing, and the system runs smoothly and stably.
As for why there is still a situation where "train tickets are difficult to buy and some trains are on sale in seconds", Yang Lipeng, technical director of the Railway 12306 Science and Technology Innovation Center, gave a detailed explanation.
According to reports, this year's Spring Festival transportation is the first normalized Spring Festival transportation after the smooth transition of epidemic prevention and control, and passengers have a strong willingness to travel, and the average daily railway passengers sent by the railway in the first nine days of the Spring Festival have reached 118340,000 people.
During the Spring Festival travel period, the railway department has put all passenger cars into operation, providing up to 10.7 million ticket seats per day (excluding reuse on the way), and the total capacity arrangement has reached the highest in history.
Despite this, tickets are still in short supply, because during the peak period of the Spring Festival, passengers gather in the first line, and the railway passenger flow has the significant characteristics of extremely concentrated, extremely unbalanced, and one-way flow, and the contradiction between supply and demand is extremely prominent, such as Guangzhou to Chongqing, Shenzhen to Wuhan and other particularly popular directions.
At the same time, it is impossible for any means of transportation to prepare capacity according to the highest passenger flow, otherwise it will cause a great waste of transportation capacity resources in ordinary times.
According to the analysis of pre-holiday ticketing and waitlist, all the capacity of the railway has been put into use, but it is still unable to meet the large-scale ticket purchase demand of passengers in just a few days.
It is precisely because of the tight supply of tickets during the period that some institutional platforms take the opportunity to increase prices for profit by special means such as **, ticket grabbing, and ticket hoarding, which further exacerbates the contradiction between supply and demand.
Since the sale of Spring Festival tickets, the 12306 system has identified and disposed of 64% of the abnormal ticket purchase behaviors of the total number of ticket purchase requests and 39% of the abnormal waitlist ticket purchase behaviors of the total number of standby ticket purchase requests.
For some "ticket-grabbing software" so-called fast, light-speed, VIP and other "acceleration package" concepts, according to the analysis of 12306 background data, regardless of whether the "acceleration package" is purchased or not, the success time of ticket purchase is the same.
12306 also emphasized that it has never cooperated with any third-party platform organization, nor has it allocated the ticket amount to any third-party platform for sale, nor has it made data links with any third-party platform.
The remaining ticket data displayed on the platform page of the "Ticket Grabbing Software" platform is crawled from the information displayed on the page of the 12306 platform, and then modified and processed.
When the tickets for a certain train are sold out, the 12306 platform will display that there is no ticket for the train, but when it is displayed on the "ticket grabbing software" platform, it will be changed to "with a ticket", which is essentially for passengers to "buy a long time by a short time" and "buy a short time by a long time".
Ticket-grabbing software "induces passengers to set up multiple combinations of arrivals and stations, and adopts the method of "buying a long time and a short time" by spending more money and buying tickets for several stations in front of the actual arrival station, as well as the "buying a short and a long time" method of buying a short-distance ticket to get on the train first and not getting off the train in violation of regulations.
Set up additional small text prompts under "have a ticket", such as "buy a few more stops" or "you don't need to get off the bus and make up the ticket for the whole journey", etc., this kind of "ticket" does not really have a ticket from the departure station to the arrival station.
"Buy a long ride and a short ride" to let passengers pay more, "buy a short ride and a long ride", and make up the ticket on the train may trigger an alarm of overcrowding on the train and affect the safety of train operation.
In addition, the "ticket-grabbing software" also recommends unreasonable transfer schemes, so that its platform displays that there are tickets, and some transfer times are particularly short, and it is very easy for passengers to "miss the ride" when traveling, but the "ticket-grabbing software" does not consider these, and only considers the fees that can be earned by successfully purchasing tickets.
The basic principle of railway ticket allocation is to take into account the convenience of passengers along the line to purchase tickets and travel, and to make full use of railway capacity resources, taking into account both long and short distances.
The allocation is mainly based on the historical passenger flow and ticket pre-sale at the departure station and each station along the way, giving priority to long-distance passengers who take the train from the departure station to the final station, and when there are long-distance tickets left, the ticketing system will adjust part of the ticket amount to the stations that are in demand along the way.
At present, in the national railway operation map, the proportion of short-distance passenger trains under the management of the railway bureau has reached 65%, and short-distance passengers can choose more space.
The main reason for the phenomenon of "a large number of empty seats" on the existing trains found on the Internet is that these trains are either return trains with one-way passenger flow, or some seats reserved to take care of passengers at intermediate stations, or some trains with longer operating lines have some sections of passenger flow that are not full.