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May 9, 4th year of Reiwa
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.

NEXCO EAST (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) has summarized the traffic conditions during the Golden Week period [April 28, 4th (Thursday) -May 8th, 4th (Sunday): 11 days]. To do.

The average daily traffic volume was 74% compared to the same period in the first 2019 (before the Korona-ka) (up 131% compared to last year). ^{* 1}
The number of traffic jams over 10km was 97, which was 57% compared to the same period in the 2019 (up to 190% compared to the previous year).
The number of traffic jams over 30km was 14 times, which was 56% compared to the same period in the 2019 (up to 467% compared to the previous year).
The maximum congestion length was 51.9km, which occurred around 10:25 on May 3 (Tuesday), at the beginning of the E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway (Out-bound line) near Ranzan Ranzan PA.

* 1: For details, please see Attachment 1-1 [PDF: 275KB] and Attachment 1-2 [PDF: 274KB].

1. 1. Comparison period

4th year of Reiwa [Thursday, April 28, 4th year of Reiwa-Sunday, May 8th, 4th year of Reiwa: 11 days]
2019 degrees [2019 From Friday, April 26 to Monday, May 6, 2019: 11 days]
(Reference) Reiwa 3rd year [Wednesday, April 28, 3rd year of Reiwa-Wednesday, May 5th, 3rd year of Reiwa: 8 days]

2. Traffic volume

		(1) Reiwa 4th year results		(2) Actual results 2019		Contrast (1) / (2)		reference
		(1) Reiwa 4th year results		(2) Actual results 2019		Contrast (1) / (2)		(3) Reiwa 3rd year results		Contrast (1) / (3)
Average daily traffic volume ^{* 1} (All cars)		30,300 units / day		41,000 units / day		74％		23,100 units / day		131％
(Small)	(large)	26,000	4,300	36,400	4,600	71％	93％	19,000	4,100	137％	105％
Maximum daily traffic		41,900 units / day		49,000 units / day		86％		26,300 units / day		159％

3. 3. Congestion situation

	(1) Reiwa 4th year results	(2) Actual results 2019	Contrast (1) / (2)	reference
	(1) Reiwa 4th year results	(2) Actual results 2019	Contrast (1) / (2)	(3) Reiwa 3rd year results	Contrast (1) / (3)
Traffic congestion of 10 km or more	97 times	169 times	57％	51 times	190％
Traffic congestion of 30 km or more	14 times	25 times	56％	3 times	467％

≪Especially long traffic jams (worst place by top and bottom) ≫

[Reiwa 4th year]

	Vertical line	Road name	Congestion location ^{* 2}	Peak date and time	Extension	Factor
1	Out-bound	E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Near Ranzan Ranzan PA	May 3 (Tuesday) around 10:25	51.9 km	Traffic concentration and accident
2		E4 Tohoku Expressway	Hanyu Hanyu Near PA	May 3 (Tuesday) around 11:00	42.8km	Accident and traffic concentration
3		E14 Tateyama Road	Near Ichihara Ichihara IC	May 4th (Wednesday) around 10:10	35.4km	Traffic concentration and accident
1	In-bound direction	E4 Tohoku Expressway	Near Kuki Kuki IC	May 1st (Sun) around 17:40	45.0 km	Traffic concentration and accident
2		E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Takasaka Takasaka Near SA	May 4th (Wednesday) around 16:30	44.0 km	Traffic concentration and accident
2		E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Takasaka Takasaka Near SA	May 5th (Thursday) around 15:55	44.0 km	Traffic concentration and accident

[2019]

	Vertical line	Road name	Congestion location ^{* 2}	Peak date and time	Extension	Factor
1	Out-bound	E4 Tohoku Expressway	Hanyu Hanyu Near PA	April 28 (Sun) around 7:10	40.6km	Accident and traffic concentration
				Monday, April 29, around 9:20		Traffic concentration and accident
				May 2 (Thursday) around 8:45		Accident and traffic concentration
1	In-bound direction	E4 Tohoku Expressway	Near Kuki Kuki IC	May 2 (Thursday) 18:10	49.7 km	Traffic concentration and accident
2		E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Takasaka Takasaka Near SA	May 2 (Thursday) around 17:55	47.3km	Traffic concentration and accident
3		E4 Tohoku Expressway	Kamikawachi Kamikawachi Near SA	May 2 (Thursday) around 17:45	46.5km	Traffic concentration

(Reference) [Reiwa 3rd year]

	Vertical line	Road name	Congestion location ^{* 2}	Peak date and time	Extension	Factor
1	Out-bound	E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Takasaka Takasaka Near SA	May 2nd (Sun) around 9:30	30.9km	Traffic concentration and accident
2		E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Takasaka Takasaka Near SA	May 3 (Monday) around 10:00	29.9km	Traffic concentration and broken car
3		E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Takasaka Takasaka Near SA	May 1st (Sat) around 11:05	24.7km	Accident and traffic concentration
1	In-bound direction	E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Kawagoe Kawagoe Near IC	May 4th (Tuesday) around 18:20	41.1km	Traffic concentration
2		E17Kan-Etsu Expressway	Takasaka Takasaka Near SA	May 3 (Monday) around 17:10	31.8km	Traffic concentration and accident
3		E4 Tohoku Expressway	Kazo Kazo near IC	May 3 (Monday) around 18:45	28.6km	Accident and traffic concentration

* 2: IC: Interchange, SA: Service area, PA: Parking area

Four. Daily traffic conditions

The peak number of traffic jams was May 3 (Tuesday) for the Out-bound direction and May 4 (Wednesday) for the In-bound direction.

[Out-bound]

[In-bound]

Five. Reference materials

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Expressway traffic conditions during Golden Week (flash report)[NEXCO EAST version]