China News Service, Nanjing, February 17 (Reporter Zhu Xiaoying) The 17th is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, and the Yangtze River Delta Railway has reached its peak return passenger flow.
The Yangtze River Delta ushered in a peak return passenger flow. Photo by Yang Bo
China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. estimates that the Yangtze River Delta Railway will carry 2.66 million passengers on the 17th; the railway department plans to operate 568 additional passenger trains and reassemble 191 EMU trains to ensure passenger safety in a large passenger flow environment. Travel in sequence.
Since the Spring Festival, as of the 16th, the Yangtze River Delta Railway has carried more than 52.4 million passengers, with an average of more than 2.38 million passengers per day; of which more than 37.7 million passengers have been carried in the 15 days before the holiday, with an average of more than 2.5 million passengers per day; Spring Festival More than 14.6 million passengers have been sent during the holidays, with an average of nearly 2.1 million passengers per day. The passenger flow before and during the festival increased significantly compared with the same period in 2019.
The Yangtze River Delta ushered in a peak return passenger flow. Photo by Yang Bo
In terms of air routes, Nanjing Lukou International Airport Operations Command Center estimates that on the 17th, the airport will support 668 inbound and outbound passenger flights, transporting about 100,000 passengers; from the 10th to the 17th, the airport will carry out more than 5,000 passenger flights, transporting passengers About 780,000 people visited.
A reporter from China News Network learned from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation on the 17th that from the 10th to the 17th, Jiangsu Province’s highways and waterways are expected to carry a total of 7 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 49.4%; of which it is expected that highways will carry about 6.5 million passengers, and waterways will carry There are about 500,000 passengers.
The Yangtze River Delta ushered in a peak return passenger flow. Photo by Yang Bo
From the 10th to the 17th, the traffic volume of the expressway network in Jiangsu Province increased significantly and is expected to hit a new high during the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, affected by factors such as the increased toll-free period for passenger cars during the Spring Festival holiday (the toll-free period is from the 9th to the 17th), fine weather and other factors, public travel demand, especially for tourism and returning home to visit relatives, has been intensively released.
The Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation estimates that from the 10th to the 17th, the average daily export traffic of the province's highways will reach 3.4611 million vehicles/day, which is expected to hit a new high in Spring Festival traffic, with a year-on-year increase of 30.91%; The average cross-section traffic volume was 12,116 vehicles per day, a year-on-year increase of 19.9%. (over)