The “Greater Bay Area on Track” is accelerating again
This year, we will strive to connect the "four lines" of Dongguan-Huizhou, Foshan-Zhaoqing, Guangzhou-Foshan South Ring Road, and Foshan-Dongguan.
After years of development, rail transit in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has gradually formed a three-level network of "national railway trunk lines, intercity railways, and urban rail transit", with a rail transit mileage of over 5,400 kilometers in operation and under construction. As an explorer of urban rail transit integration, Guangzhou Metro has been steadily building subway, intercity, and hub projects. In the past year, it has started construction and opened multiple subway and intercity lines as scheduled. It completed an investment of 86.1 billion yuan in key projects throughout the year and achieved business operations. Revenue was 14.1 billion yuan. This year, Guangzhou Metro will continue to play the role of ballast stone for major projects, comprehensively promote the construction of 23 654 kilometers of subway and intercity lines under construction, and strive to open the Guangzhou-Foshan South Ring, Foshan, Guangqing North Extension, Xinbai Guangzhou and other four intercity lines will accelerate the construction of the "Greater Bay Area on Track" and better serve the high-quality economic and social development.
Explore the integrated and innovative development of rail transit in the Greater Bay Area
The "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" clearly proposes to promote the integrated development of multiple rail networks and create a Greater Bay Area on rails, pointing out the direction for the integrated development of rail transit in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. After years of development, rail transit in the Greater Bay Area has gradually formed a three-level network of "national railway trunk lines, intercity railways, and urban rail transit".
As an explorer of urban rail transit integration, Guangzhou Metro and Foshan Metro have successively opened three lines: Guangfo Line, Foshan Line 2, and Guangzhou Line 7 West Extension Line. Operational data over the years show that the line has prominent commuting functions, a high proportion of interchange passengers, and rapid passenger flow growth. From 2010 to 2019, the passenger volume of Guangfo increased from 120,000 passengers/day to 531,000 passengers/day. The transfer ratio of the Guangfo Line is about 67%, and the interactive passenger flow between Guangzhou and Foshan is about 150,000 passengers/day. At present, Foshan Center and Guangzhou Center have been quickly connected, and a pattern of single-region urbanization to city-wide urbanization has been initially formed.
Special research work on line networks focusing on integration and innovation. With the promotion of the government and the participation of enterprises, we have focused on the "subway + intercity" composite giant network of nearly 10,000 kilometers in the three major metropolitan areas of the Bay Area and 11 cities in total, and carried out a joint project covering five major aspects: planning, construction, operation, system, and resources. 23 special studies to explore the integrated and innovative development of rail transit in the Greater Bay Area.
This year, the Guangfo East Ring Road and the Guangqing South Extension Section will be completed.
In 2023, the construction of the "Greater Bay Area on Track" will move forward steadily. Guangzhou Metro has made full use of the operation mechanism of the Guangzhou Metropolitan Area Intercity Project Headquarters to organize hundreds of internal and external technical review and coordination meetings to ensure that the construction of the Nansha to Zhuhai (Zhongshan) intercity and the Guanghe High-speed Railway from Baiyun Airport T3 to Jiangcun West Section starts. . Through multiple efforts to jointly promote project progress, the southern section of the Xinbai-Guangzhou Intercity and the Zhenlong Station transportation hub have been basically completed, and the static acceptance of various majors has been completed for the Guangzhou-Foshan South Ring Road and the Foshan-Dongguan Intercity.
Promote the access construction and dynamic acceptance of the new Guangfo South Ring and Foshan-Dongguan intercity lines, advance the construction of the Guangfo West Ring in an orderly manner, and complete the Pazhou branch line, Guangfo East Ring, and Guangqing South Extension... In 2024, Guangzhou Metro will continue We will deepen the construction of a new stage of the "Greater Bay Area on Track" and steadily build subway, intercity, and hub projects by strengthening efficient coordination and linkage with relevant national, provincial, municipal, and district government departments. By achieving the project opening and construction targets as scheduled, we will continue to accelerate urban development, promote the integration of the Bay Area, and give full play to the traction role of rail transit as an "economic artery."
Launching intercity "counted tickets" and "regular tickets" to increase passenger flow stickiness
On October 27, 2020, Guangzhou Metro successfully obtained an intercity railway transportation license and became the first local enterprise to obtain intercity railway transportation qualifications.
On the way to solidly promote the operation of large-scale line network, Guangzhou Metro has paid close attention to service guarantee to make the "subway + intercity" operation more high-quality. In 2023, Guangqing and Guangzhou East Ring Intercity Stations completed the adaptability transformation of four-unit trains on existing lines, and successfully launched mixed grouping of four- and eight-unit trains, reducing traction energy consumption by 37% and better serving "Guangzhou City" circle” commuting needs. The introduction of intercity special "counted tickets" and "regular tickets" has increased the stickiness of commuter passenger flow.
"As the main body, Guangzhou Metro Group, with the support of the state, province and city, after more than two years of operation practice, has actively explored the 'Intercity Railway Public Transport Operation Model' on the Guangqing and Guangzhou East Ring Intercity Railways." January 23 On the afternoon of the same day, Liu Zhicheng, deputy to the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and general manager of Guangzhou Metro Group, participated in the Guangzhou delegation's review of the provincial government work report at the second session of the 14th Provincial People's Congress and said that the Guangzhou-Qinghai intercity has achieved "speed increase" in 2023 - driving. The interval is compressed to 19 minutes, and a direct train from Guangzhou to Qingyuan is launched, making the two places direct in 16 minutes at the fastest time. Guangqing and Guangzhou East Ring Intercity have also launched the "12306 + Provincial Independent Public Transport" dual ticketing system. The 12306 ticketing system has achieved "one-time validity on the same day", and the provincial independent public transport ticketing system has implemented Yangchengtong and Guangzhou Metro City. Passengers can use various payment methods such as international bus codes to enter the station and take the bus, and passengers can "come and go".
This year, we will closely promote the intercity transfer between Guangzhou, Dongguan and Shenzhen.
In 2024, the intercity network in the Greater Bay Area will usher in accelerated opening: Guangzhou Metro strives to open three intercity lines including Guangzhou-Foshan South Ring, Foshan-Dongguan, and Guangqing North Extension, and closely connect with Guangzhou Railway Group to promote the inter-city transfer between Guangzhou, Dongguan, and Shenzhen , striving to realize the "four-line" interconnection operation of Wanhui, Foshan, Guangzhou, Foshan, and Foshan-Dongguan intercity, and strive to open the new Baidu-Guangzhou intercity, laying a solid foundation for the high-quality network operation of the "one horizontal and two vertical" backbone networks.
In order to match the operation of newly opened lines, Guangzhou Metro plans to implement express trains at major stations and mixed stop-and-run transportation at stations to increase traffic density. In order to implement the public transportation operation in detail, it is planned to complete the transformation of the public transportation ticketing system of the existing lines, launch the provincial independent public transportation ticketing system, and implement the passenger interface upgrade. In terms of extending existing bus connection services, explore the formation of a co-station management model for intercity, national railways and subways to improve the level of comprehensive transportation hub interconnection.
Constructing a one-hour living circle in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on track
"Intercity rail is the link connecting cities in the Bay Area and will also become the main driving force for urban development." Liu Zhicheng said that in recent years, the layout of the railway hub in the Greater Bay Area has become increasingly perfect, and intercity railways have gradually become a network operation, with transportation capacity and services The level has been greatly improved.
Guangzhou Metro has proposed a "multi-network integration pyramid" planning method and technical route. Through optimization and adjustment of the line network, it can achieve the three goals of high-speed rail into the city, intercity into the center, and one-ticket access, and build a regional one-hour living circle. In terms of unified standards, by promoting the establishment of the "Guangdong Intercity Technical Standard System", a "1+5+34" standard system has been built, covering a total of 34 items in 5 aspects including planning, construction, operation, system, and resources. standard. Cai Changjun, deputy general manager of Guangzhou Metro Group, pointed out that a unified standard system is the basis for high-quality interconnection. Ultimately, it must be based on multi-city, cross-regional integration, and multi-network and cross-standard integration to achieve interconnection, interoperability, interoperability, and mutual maintenance. Operational effects.
In terms of cross-standard interconnection, cross-standard integration will be achieved by adding contact lines and optimizing the line network structure. Taking Guangqing Intercity, Foshan-Zhaozhou Intercity, and Guangfo-Jiangzhu Intercity as examples, through the addition of connecting lines with Guanghua Intercity and Foshan-Suzhou-Dongguan Intercity, Qingyuan, Zhaoqing, and Jiangmen can be directly connected to Guangzhou in one hour. core zone. Through the multi-line and multi-point cross-city connection model and the multi-line and multi-city connection model between cities, we will promote the realization of interconnection from city-wide, to interconnection between core cities and surrounding cities, and then to interconnection of multiple cities in the Greater Bay Area. Cross-regional planning integration goals.
"Guangzhou Metro focuses on 'one string of cities, one network, one ticket' to carry out the practice and exploration of the integrated development of urban rail transit." Liu Zhicheng, general manager of Guangzhou Metro Group, said in the keynote report of the first Greater Bay Area Modern Rail Transit Technology Academic Forum that in his mind, the Greater Bay Area on the rails is high-level, high-quality interconnection in the new era.
It is estimated that by 2035, the rail transit operation scale in the Greater Bay Area will reach 7,500 kilometers, including nearly 3,500 kilometers of railway + intercity and nearly 4,000 kilometers of urban rail transit. It will cover 100% of cities above the county level and 80% of towns with a planned population of more than 50,000. , build a regional one-hour living circle.
Text/Li Tianyan Correspondent Sui Tiexuan