China News Service, Beijing, February 15th: Title: Halfway through the Spring Festival, China increases transportation capacity to cope with the peak return passenger flow
China News Service reporter Liu Wenwen
As the Spring Festival holiday enters the second half, China is experiencing a peak in return passenger flow. Many places and departments have increased the deployment of transportation capacity during peak hours and key areas to ensure smooth and smooth Spring Festival transportation.
——The railway opens additional trains in popular directions
This year's Spring Festival travel begins on January 26 and lasts for 40 days. Data from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. show that as of February 14, China Railways had carried a total of 230 million passengers in the first 20 days, and the transportation was safe, stable and orderly. At present, the return passenger flow of railways is growing strongly. Railway departments in various regions are actively coping with the peak return passenger flow, increasing the supply of passenger transport capacity, and adding passenger trains in popular directions and sections in a timely manner to meet passenger travel needs.
Among them, Wuhan Bureau Group Company opened 133 additional passenger trains on popular lines such as Han-Yi Railway, Han-Shi High-speed Railway, Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, and Hewu Railway. Nanchang Bureau Group Company plans to add 100 short-distance passenger trains in the directions of Shanghai-Hangzhou, Guangzhou-Shenzhen and Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, including 70 EMU trains. In addition to the current 47 pairs of trains running daily from Sanya Station to Haikou East Station, Guangzhou Railway Group will add 3.5 pairs of trains from Sanya Station to Meilan Station and Haikou East Station, and one pair will pass through Boao Station.
——Addition of temporary special lines for Spring Festival travel on highways
In terms of highways, all localities are fully committed to ensuring the smooth flow of passengers during the Spring Festival. Based on the characteristics of return passenger flow during the Spring Festival, the Shanghai public transportation industry has opened 25 special lines for Spring Festival travel in key places such as Shanghai Railway Station, Hongqiao Hub, Shanghai South Railway Station, Pudong Airport, Shanghai West Railway Station, Shidongkou Pier, etc., and ground buses have opened at Hongqiao Hub in 2 From October 14th to 23rd, 8 temporary special lines for Spring Festival travel will be added to ensure the effective connection between ground buses and airports, railway stations, docks, and rail transit, and serve return passenger flow. Nanjing South Bus and Passenger Transport Station has extended its services outside the station and set up a highway passenger guidance desk at the subway entrance near the high-speed rail manual ticket office in the North Square to provide convenient travel guidance for passengers.
——Waterways ensure accurate ship dispatching
As the golden waterway between Guangdong and Qiongzhou, the Qiongzhou Strait has experienced a record-breaking transportation peak during the Spring Festival this year. In order to cope with the peak return passenger flow and periodic heavy fog and other severe weather, the two provinces of Guangdong and Hainan, and the two cities of Zhanjiang and Haikou interact frequently to further establish and improve the communication and docking mechanism, and regularly share ship capacity, advance ticket sales data, and weather forecasts every day. and various types of information such as suspension warnings, the number of vehicles awaiting ferry, and traffic conditions on the highway to ensure the accuracy of prediction and ship dispatching.
Li Guantao, deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Transportation, said that in order to ensure return transportation during the Spring Festival in Qiongzhou Strait, Hainan Province will open more flights, strive to operate more than 300 flights per day, and invest in no less than 6 new energy vehicle flights. Continue to fully implement the appointment crossing system and the vehicle entry management system three hours before sailing. When necessary, coordinate the emptying of ships on the north coast and support rush shipments on the south coast.
——Civil aviation actively taps transportation potential
In order to effectively cope with the peak passenger flow, civil aviation is doing everything possible to tap transportation potential. During the Spring Festival travel period (from February 10 to March 5), China Southern Airlines has arranged a total of 2,324 overtime flights to help returnees travel smoothly. In terms of international and regional routes, there has also been a peak in return passenger flow from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and other places. China Southern Airlines has arranged overtime services on routes from Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to Guangzhou, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and Shenyang in China.
Tourism in Hainan is booming during the Spring Festival. Sanya Phoenix International Airport actively coordinates with airlines to increase the capacity of routes to key passenger source areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Hangzhou. On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Hainan Province began to enter the peak passenger flow out of the island. Sanya Phoenix International Airport's outbound air tickets are relatively tight. Air tickets to major destination cities in China have been basically sold out before the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. The peak passenger flow is expected to continue until around the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. In order to alleviate the shortage of return flights during the Spring Festival and other related issues, the Civil Aviation Administration has agreed to increase Hainan’s transportation capacity, and relevant airlines are submitting plans. (over)