Take multiple measures to ensure safe and smooth transportation during holidays
Halfway through the long holiday of "October", the national traffic safety situation is generally stable, and many passengers are about to embark on their return journey.
In order to allow the masses of people to travel conveniently and safely, various transportation departments have taken multiple measures and made every effort to carry out the work of ensuring smooth traffic.
As the first choice for short- and medium-distance travel, the railway continued to play an important role during the long holiday of this year's "October".
Statistics show that from September 30 to October 5, the national railways sent more than 70 million passengers.
According to the relevant person in charge of the National Railway Group, from the perspective of the pre-sale of railway tickets for 12306, the passenger flow of “compensation” visits to relatives, tourism and sightseeing during the "November" holiday this year is intertwined, and the national railway passenger flow is expected to be the same as the same period last year.
"In order to accurately allocate capacity resources, national railways implemented peak train operation diagrams and added 55.5 pairs of through passenger trains. According to the data of advance ticket sales and standby ticket purchases, the precise implementation of'one map per day' was implemented to maximize railway capacity resources and passenger flow. Matching requirements.” The person in charge said.
At the same time, railways also give full play to the backbone role of coal transportation. Each railway bureau group company and local government economic operation departments establish a daily communication mechanism to meet the coal supply, storage, consumption and transportation needs of power plants that have less than 7 days of coal storage every day.
Give full play to the advantages of “one game of chess” and “one net” of national railways, and strengthen unified coordination and dispatching and command.
At present, the average number of days that can be used to store coal in 363 railway power plants across the country remains at 14.4 days.
Compared with the long holiday of "October" in previous years, more tourists chose self-driving tours and surrounding tours during this holiday.
According to data released by the online travel platform Fliggy, reservations for surrounding tours on the eve of the National Day surged by more than 380% month-on-month. Rural tourism, red tourism, and self-driving tours by car rental are popular.
From October 1 to 5, the number of passengers sent by highways across the country exceeded 210 million, of which 46.62 million passengers were sent by highway on October 1, an increase of 27.6% from the previous month.
"The next peak period for the return journey is approaching. The transportation department will continue to do a good job in command and dispatch, alleviation of congestion and smoothness, on-duty, epidemic prevention and control, and trouble-relief work, and make every effort to ensure the safety and smooth flow of roads and the safety of mass travel." The person in charge said.
In addition, in terms of civil aviation, compared with the “difficult to find a ticket” during the "November" holiday in previous years, there are more choices of routes and time slots for this year's long holiday. There are many more tickets for the more popular tourist destination routes in the past.
Lan Xiang, dean of the Qunar Big Data Research Institute, pointed out that due to the impact of the epidemic, people’s travel habits have changed to a certain extent. In the past, the earlier you book before the Golden Week, the cheaper it is, but you may also get cheaper tickets if you buy a ticket before you travel this year. .
Data shows that from October 1st to 5th, the national civil aviation sent 6 million passengers. In order to improve the travel experience of passengers, many airlines provide information and intelligent seamless services from ticket sales, ground to air services. , Optimize the service experience of passengers.
(Our reporter Zi Qian)