China News Service, Beijing, February 17 (Reporter Liu Wenwen) The 17th (the eighth day of the first lunar month) is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday in the Chinese Year of the Dragon. The latest data from the 2024 Comprehensive Transportation Spring Festival Transport Work Class shows that from February 10th to 17th (the first to the eighth day of the first lunar month), the cross-regional movement of people in China's society is expected to total 2.311 billion people.
On February 17, at Nanjing Railway Station, passengers getting off the train exited the station in an orderly manner. Picture/Visual China
Data show that on February 16 (the 22nd day of Spring Festival travel, the seventh day of the first lunar month), the number of cross-regional personnel movements across society was 308.46 million, an increase of 34.00% over the same period in 2023, and an increase of 34.06% over the same period in 2019. Among them, railway passenger volume was 15.288 million, an increase of 25.1% over the same period in 2023, and an increase of 19.9% over the same period in 2019. The number of highway personnel movements was 289.61 million, an increase of 34.4% over the same period in 2023 and an increase of 35.8% over the same period in 2019. Waterway passenger volume was 1.216 million, an increase of 32.5% compared with the same period in 2023, and a decrease of 42.8% compared with the same period in 2019. Civil aviation passenger volume was 2.349 million, an increase of 42.2% over the same period in 2023 and an increase of 16.5% over the same period in 2019.
The Spring Festival holiday is coming to an end, and various places are entering the peak period of return travel. The transportation department has taken multiple measures to increase transportation capacity and improve service quality.
In order to ensure smooth traffic on the return trip during the Spring Festival, the Sichuan Provincial Transportation Department promptly dispatched additional personnel to take turns on duty, diversion control, and traffic flow when congestion trends occur at key points such as high-speed connection hubs, easy-to-congest road sections, and important toll stations. .
In order to facilitate the travel needs of passing drivers and passengers, the Jilin Expressway Service Area has launched a "Speak If I Need Anything" convenience contact card. The contact information of the service area staff is marked on the card to provide services to passengers in need as soon as possible.
Qiongzhou Strait ushered in the peak of the return trip from the island. In order to solve the shortage of tickets for the return trip out of the island during the peak period, Haikou City organized Xinhai Port and Xiuying Port to further optimize the shipping capacity and sell about 1,200 additional tickets for the small car out of the island. In the future, tickets for leaving the island for fuel vehicles and new energy vehicles will be dynamically sold based on ship capacity. (over)