The Spring Festival holiday is coming to an end, and the return journey is also ushering in a peak. The reporter learned from the 2024 comprehensive transportation Spring Festival work class on the 16th that on February 15 (the 21st day of the Spring Festival, the sixth day of the first lunar month), the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society reached 315.38 million, exceeding 300 million people for three consecutive days, an increase of 27%, an increase of 21%, an increase of 218%。
The Ministry of Transport reminded that on February 17, the return peak of road travel during the holiday. 9-12 o'clock and 14-19 o'clock every day are the travel periods that are concentrated and prone to congestion. It is expected that some roads in northern Xinjiang, eastern and southern Xinjiang, central and northern Sichuan Plateau, northeastern Inner Mongolia, and northern Heilongjiang will be affected by light to moderate snow or sleet, among which, the Altay region of Xinjiang and the Ili River Valley will be affected by heavy to heavy snowfall, and road travel may be affected.
In the face of the peak of return passenger flow, local transportation departments have taken active measures to do a good job in road network scheduling, transportation organization, safety emergency response, and unblocking and smoothing, so as to effectively ensure the safe, orderly and warm travel of passengers.
Hubei Traffic will send people to station in congested road sections, toll stations and service areas to realize the coordinated operation of government, police, road and enterprises; Detect congested road sections as soon as possible, strengthen monitoring and early warning of key road sections, increase accident rescue and dispatch, and continuously improve the emergency response process; Quickly deal with congestion, make full use of traffic information technology, pay close attention to the road network transportation conditions, comprehensively dispatch resources from all parties, and efficiently respond to congestion accidents; Strengthen vehicle guidance and diversion, adhere to the working principle of "remote guidance, proximal diversion", and guide drivers to avoid congested road sections through broadcasting, electronic display screens, map navigation, etc.
Combined with the operation of highway charging stations, Jilin has temporarily added mobile charging vehicles in service areas such as Dehui and Taolaizhao on the main line of Beijing-Harbin Expressway to carry out emergency charging for electric vehicles without electricity or low power near the service area, effectively improving the emergency charging service capacity. At present, the charging infrastructure in the Jilin Expressway service area has achieved 100% coverage, and the coverage rate of fast charging facilities has reached 50%, which can meet the demand for rapid energy replenishment within at least 100 kilometers.
In order to smooth the "last mile" of the way home late at night, Beijing Metro and BJMTR have taken measures such as extending operating hours and adding trains, and Beijing Public Transport Group has opened more ferry lines at key railway stations, appropriately extended the operating hours of day lines, and increased the capacity of night lines. At the same time, the Beijing transportation department coordinated key online car-hailing to establish a Spring Festival transportation support fleet, arranged more than 700 online car-hailing vehicles to ensure the "seven stations and two venues" connection transportation, and released the first flight and passenger volume to the online car-hailing platform in advance, and coordinated the platform to give priority to the airport and railway station. The airport bus combines the travel needs of passengers, adjusts the station settings, reserves mobile transport capacity, and does a good job in the airport transportation guarantee, and the maximum waiting time for passengers before 2:00 on the night route of Daxing airport bus does not exceed 30 minutes, so as to "depart when the passenger is full, and make up the shift at any time".
Relying on the "Mobility as a Service" (MaaS) platform for the digital transformation of transportation life, the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission organized the pilot work of the "Spring Festival Travel Back to Shanghai and Back to School Customized Line", providing customized special lines from Hongqiao Long-distance Bus Station to 27 university campuses in 6 directions from February 16 to March 5. Teachers and students returning to school can take the special line according to the route that has been reserved and purchased, arrive at the designated pick-up point at the Hongqiao hub, and take the special line after the exhibition code is verified. (Reporter Wang Lu).
Editor: Yu Jiang.