On February 18th, data from the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism for the Spring Festival transport work class showed that during the seven days of the Spring Festival holiday (New Year’s Eve to the sixth day), the country’s railways, highways, waterways, and civil aviation sent 98.416 million passengers, a decrease of 76.8% compared with the same period in 2019. A decrease of 34.8% in the same period in 2020.
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The railway sent a total of 24.05 million passengers, a decrease of 60.2% over the same period in 2019 and an increase of 3.6% over the same period in 2020;
The total number of passengers sent by highways was 67.85 million, a decrease of 79.9% from the same period in 2019 and a decrease of 43.2% from the same period in 2020;
The waterway sent a total of 2.935 million passengers, a decrease of 76.8% over the same period in 2019 and an increase of 63.2% over the same period in 2020;
Civil aviation sent a total of 3.574 million passengers, a decrease of 71.7% from the same period in 2019 and a decrease of 45.5% from the same period in 2020.
In terms of expressways, during the Spring Festival holiday, the cumulative traffic of expressways nationwide was 219,651,500, a decrease of 20.27% year-on-year in 2019 and an increase of 118.26% year-on-year in 2020.
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The passenger vehicle flow was 21,103,300, a decrease of 21.45% compared to 2019, and an increase of 120.11% compared to 2020;
The flow of trucks was 8,648,500, an increase of 25.84% year-on-year in 2019 and an increase of 81.13% year-on-year in 2020.
The reporter learned that the Spring Festival travel season entered the 22nd, and today the country is expected to send 21.44 million passengers.
Among them, railways are expected to send 6.7 million passengers, 13.3 million highways, 480,000 waterways, and 960,000 civil aviation.
The national highway traffic is estimated to be 29.49 million vehicles.
On the last day of the holiday, local transportation departments actively responded to the return passenger flow and strengthened the guarantee of transportation services.
In Guangzhou, the transportation department optimized the bus operation organization based on the passenger flow, and prepared more than 20 night overtime bus routes, which depart from major passenger transport hubs such as Guangzhou Railway Station, City Passenger Transport Station, Tianhe Passenger Transport Station Main Station, etc., for late-night passengers. Provide safe, convenient and caring service.
In Chongqing, in order to ensure the safety of people’s lives, the Chongqing Maritime Department strictly enforces the ferry management mechanism, strengthens the on-site supervision of passenger flow peaks and two-river cruises in key ferry areas such as Shimen, Baisha, Mingshan, and continues to standardize ship navigation actions, strictly implement prohibition and restriction measures, and strictly enforce Crack down on illegal activities such as foggy navigation, driving without a license, and overloading transportation.
In Sichuan, in order to make it easier for college and technical students who are studying in other places to return to school after the Spring Festival, the Jiangbei Passenger Transport Center Station of the Pakistan Transport Group has opened a campus through train. Students can use mini programs, public accounts, offline agencies, station windows, and towns. Purchased at a networked point of sale, the through train fare is the same as the fare of the passenger transport to the city, which saves students the pain of running around after getting off the station and transferring. (CCTV reporter Tang Ying)