China News Service, February 24 (Xinhua) According to the China Railway WeChat official account, as major colleges and universities begin to reopen, the railway will usher in a peak passenger flow of student passengers returning to school in the near future. The railway department has carefully organized the transportation of student passengers and made overall arrangements for transportation capacity. In line with the station train service work, 253 special trains for students are scheduled to be operated from February 22 to March 5, and multiple measures will be taken to ensure that the majority of student passengers return to school safely and orderly.
The first is to increase the supply of transportation capacity.
Actively connect with the education department and major colleges and universities to promptly grasp the opening times of colleges and students' transportation needs, and adopt methods such as adding temporary passenger trains, arranging reconnected operation of EMUs, and adding additional carriages to normal-speed trains to increase transportation capacity on popular lines. , to meet the needs of student travelers returning to school to the greatest extent.
For routes where student passengers are concentrated, rolling stock, EMUs and crews will be mobilized to open more special trains for students. Among them, 253 special trains for students are planned to be operated from February 22 to March 5, mainly including Kashgar, Hotan to Urumqi, and Zhengzhou To Shenyang North, Yulin to Guilin, Chaoshan to Zhanjiang West and other directions, capacity will be increased in the future based on dynamic demand.
The second is to optimize the ticketing organization.
Based on the railway 12306 passenger ticket pre-sale and waiting data, dynamically monitor the student ticket pre-sale situation, study and judge the trend changes of student passenger flow, scientifically calculate the demand for back-to-school tickets, optimize the ticket sales strategy in a targeted manner, and timely distribute the tickets to stations with large student passenger flow. Maximize student ticket purchase needs.
Before the Spring Festival, the Railway 12306 mobile client launched the "Special Service for Student Winter Vacation Ticket Reservation" for the first time, giving priority to students' ticket reservation needs, and a total of 1.112 million student tickets have been redeemed.
According to statistics from Railway 12306, there were 15.45 million student passengers returning home by train before the Spring Festival this year.
As of February 23, 13.86 million post-holiday student return tickets have been sold, reaching 90% of the pre-holiday number.
The third is to strengthen service guidance.
Railway departments in various regions have strengthened travel service guarantees for student passengers, increased guidance in ticket halls, automatic ticket vending machines, ticket gates and other places, dynamically opened manual ticket inspection and verification channels, organized volunteers to help student passengers verify their preferential qualifications, and provided travel services Car guidance, consultation and Q&A, caring transportation and other heart-warming services.
Strengthen coordination and linkage with municipal transportation departments, increase subway, bus, taxi and other transport capacity connections to smooth the "last mile" of transportation services for students returning to school.