Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 17 (Reporter Ye Haoming) The reporter learned from the 2024 comprehensive transport Spring Festival work class on the 17th that from February 10 to 17 (the first day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the first lunar month, the Spring Festival holiday), the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society is expected to accumulate 231.1 billion passengers.
Specifically, the railway passenger volume is expected to accumulate 99.59 million passengers; The flow of people on the highway is expected to accumulate 218.4 billion person-times, of which the number of non-commercial passenger cars on expressways and ordinary national and provincial highways is expected to accumulate 199.8 billion passengers, highway commercial passenger traffic is expected to accumulate 18.6 billion passengers; The total number of passengers transported by waterway is expected to be 9.4 million; Civil aviation passenger traffic is expected to accumulate 18.04 million passengers.
On the 17th, the 2024 Comprehensive Transport Spring Festival Work Team also released the travel data on the 16th (the 22nd day of the Spring Festival, the seventh day of the first lunar month), and the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society was about 308.46 million, an increase of 34% over the same period in 2023. Among them, the railway passenger traffic is 152880,000 passengers, an increase of 25 over the same period in 20231%；The flow of people on highways (including the number of non-commercial passenger cars on expressways and ordinary national and provincial roads, and the number of commercial passenger traffic on highways) was 289.61 million, an increase of 34 over the same period in 20234%；Waterway passenger traffic 12160,000 person-times, an increase of 32 over the same period in 20235%；Civil aviation passenger traffic 23490,000 passengers, an increase of 42 over the same period in 20232%。
The Spring Festival holiday is coming to an end, and various places have entered the peak of returns. Local transportation departments have taken multiple measures to adhere to the bottom line of safety, enrich transportation capacity, refine service measures, and improve service quality, so as to make the return journey of the Spring Festival safer, more convenient and warmer.