China News Service, Beijing, October 7th (Reporter Zhou Yin) The Ministry of Transport of China disclosed on the 7th that from October 1st to 7th, the National Day holiday in 2022, the national transportation industry will operate smoothly, and various modes of transportation will be connected in an orderly manner. Compared with the same period of previous years, the number of passengers sent across the country has decreased by different degrees.
Statistics show that during the National Day holiday this year, the national railways, highways, waterways, and civil aviation are expected to send a total of 255.5411 million passengers, an average of 36.506 million passengers per day, a daily average decrease of 36.4% compared with the same period in 2021 (the 7-day National Day holiday, the same below). , 41.4% lower than the same period in 2020 (8-day National Day holiday, the same below), and 58.1% lower than the same period in 2019 (7-day National Day holiday, the same below).
Among them, highways are expected to send 198.24 million passengers, with an average daily average of 28.32 million, down 34.5% from the same period in 2021, 40.2% from the same period in 2020, and 58.7% from the same period in 2019; waterways are expected to send passengers 4.6393 million person-times, with a daily average of 663,000 person-times, a decrease of 24.8% from the average daily average of the same period in 2021, a decrease of 36.6% from the average daily average of the same period in 2020, and a decrease of 65.7% from the average daily average of the same period in 2019.
The Ministry of Transport stated that during the National Day holiday, road trips are mainly short-distance and short-distance, showing the characteristics of "short radius and tidal type". In previous years, the number of roads has decreased, and there is a lot of pressure on epidemic prevention and traffic control in some provincial border sections.
From October 1st to 7th, it is estimated that the average daily flow of expressways across the country will be 39.1226 million vehicles, a decrease of 21.54% from the average daily average of the same period in 2021, a decrease of 17.40% from the average daily average of the same period in 2020, and a decrease of 21.78% from the average daily average of the same period in 2019.
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