China News Service, March 5 (China News reporter Ge Cheng) The 40-day Spring Festival travel period ended on March 5.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport that the cross-regional movement of people across society during the 40 days of Spring Festival travel in 2024 is expected to exceed 8.4 billion people.
Among them, the railway passenger volume is expected to be 480 million; the highway passenger flow is expected to be 7.83 billion, of which the non-commercial passenger car travel on expressways and ordinary national and provincial roads is expected to be 6.72 billion (in the cross-regional movement of people in the whole society (accounting for about 80% of the total), road commercial passenger volume is expected to be 1.11 billion; waterway passenger volume is expected to be 29 million; civil aviation passenger volume is expected to be 83 million.
On March 5, many passengers departed or arrived at Nanchang Station in Jiangxi Province.
That day is the last day of the Spring Festival Transport in 2024, and the 40-day Spring Festival Transport comes to an end.
The picture shows Nanchang Station in Jiangxi Province, with many arriving passengers walking across the platform.
Photo by Liu Lixin
During this year's Spring Festival, the national transportation system strengthened overall coordination and dispatch, strengthened capacity guarantee, strengthened safety supervision, strengthened emergency response, and refined plans to deal with severe weather, heavy passenger flow, etc., so that more people's journey back home would be safer and more convenient. More convenient and warmer.
With billions of people moving across regions, safety has become the top priority for this year’s Spring Festival travel.
Before the official start of the Spring Festival travel season, the transportation department has carried out risk investigation and hidden danger management on important transportation infrastructure, including long bridges, tunnels, sharp curves and steep slopes and other key road sections, and comprehensively conducted comprehensive inspections of vehicles, ships, carriers and other equipment and facilities used in the Spring Festival travel season. Inspect and maintain to ensure driving safety.
Henan has launched a "hard-core" snow removal mode, which clears the snow as soon as it falls and clears the road after snow stops. "Henan efficiency" continues to dominate the screen; Hunan Xiangxi Expressway has launched an intelligent ice melting system for the first time at the key section of the G56 Hangrui Expressway Phoenix Junction to realize road temperature control and accurate early warning of road icing; Anhui has pre-positioned snow removal and ice melting materials and equipment on sections prone to snow and ice and accident-prone roads, and adopted measures such as speed reduction, time-sharing, and echelon traffic to ensure smooth traffic to the greatest extent... …When large-scale low-temperature, rainy, snowy, and freezing weather occurs during the Spring Festival travel season, all localities immediately activate emergency plans, promptly guide localities to carry out snow clearing and de-icing operations, and go all out to ensure smooth traffic.
A well-connected road network will make Spring Festival transportation more convenient.
From the return of motorcycles to their hometowns, to road self-driving becoming the main force in travel, from the difficulty of queuing to buy tickets to one-click selection of customized passenger transport, from the difficulty of transfers to efficient connection of interline transportation... more newly opened routes , more optimized travel times, and more advanced means of transportation, convenience has become an increasingly frequent word during this year’s Spring Festival travel season.
Behind the changes is the accelerated formation of a comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network.
Data shows that the total mileage of my country’s comprehensive transportation network exceeds 6 million kilometers.
In 2023, 2,776 kilometers of high-speed railways will be opened, 7,000 kilometers of highways will be built, reconstructed and expanded, 1,000 kilometers of new waterways will be added and improved, and the number of transportation aviation airports will reach 259.
The transportation network extending in all directions carries the vitality of the Spring Festival travel rush, making the beautiful vision of "people enjoying their travels and goods flowing smoothly" gradually becoming a reality.
During the Spring Festival this year, whether online or offline, whether at train stations, highways or airports, the quality of travel services has been further improved.
The Ministry of Transport has launched the "e-Road Smooth" applet, which can query the location, real-time status, charging mode and other information of highway charging facilities across the country; service areas in Shanxi, Fujian and other places have opened special areas for New Year's goods, carried out activities to send blessings and Spring Festival couplets, and launched many local specialty dishes and snacks; Beijing, Shanghai and other places have opened free shuttle routes and delayed subway operations to fully ensure the nighttime connection needs of passengers at key stations...
In order to ensure the smooth flow of logistics during the Spring Festival, the Ministry of Transport has played a special role in ensuring smooth logistics, focusing on tracking material needs, coordinating with relevant departments of the ministry and province, and tracking the logistics operations in key areas, hubs, and main channels. Monitoring; comprehensively identify the needs of key materials, especially people’s livelihood supplies, and at the same time strengthen transportation capacity reserves to ensure the smooth flow of the main road network’s logistics “major arteries”, ensure the efficient and smooth flow of the urban and rural terminal “microcirculation”, and ensure that key people’s livelihood supplies can be transported effectively, orderly, and stably .
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