Traffic conditions on Expressway in Niigata during the long holiday season in September (preliminary report)
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September 24, 2009
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office (Niigata Nishi-ku, Regional Head Office length: Yoshio Shiraishi), out of the large holiday period of the year in September 2009 September 19 (Sat) - September 2009 23 days of (water) 5 We would like to inform you that we have summarized the traffic conditions of the Expressway in our Regional Head Office over the day.
1 Number of passengers in the entire jurisdiction and by road (average daily)
The number of vehicles used decreased by 2.8% compared to the consecutive holidays in May.
During the period, the number of Expressway used by the Regional Head Office is approximately 123,000 vehicles/day, and the consecutive holidays in May of this year [from Saturday, May 2, 2009 to Wednesday, May 6, 2009] Compared to 5 days], it has decreased by 2.8%.
| By road | H21 September A |
H21 May B |
May ratio (%) A/B |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The entire Niigata Regional Head Office | 123,226 | 126,719 | 97.2％ | |
| By road | Hokuriku Expressway (Asahi-Niigata Chuo Junction) |
57,250 | 59,494 | 96.2％ |
| Kan-Etsu Expressway (Mizukami-Nagaoka Junction) |
28,902 | 31,149 | 92.8％ | |
| Ban-Etsu Expressway (Tsugawa-Niigata Central Junction) |
11,034 | 12,313 | 89.6％ | |
| Joshin-Etsu Expressway (Shinanomachi-Joetsu Junction) |
7,122 | 6,508 | 109.4％ | |
| Nihonkai-Tohoku Expressway (Niigata Chuo Junction-Arakawa womb) |
18,918 | 17,255 | 109.6％ | |
2 congestion
Compared to the consecutive holidays in May, traffic congestion over 5km was reduced by about 40%.
Congestion over 5km due to traffic concentration and accidents occurred 12 times during the period, which was about 40% less than the 19 consecutive holidays in May.
The longest traffic jam during the period is approximately 17km of traffic caused by traffic congestion on the Joshinetsu Expressway (In-bound line) on September 21st (Monday).
・Congestion status (congestion over 5km)
| Classification | Large holidays in September (9/19-9/23) | Large holidays in May (5/2-5/6) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of times | Total time | Maximum extension total | Number of times | Total time | Maximum extension total | |
| Traffic concentration | 12 times | 94：38 | 125.9 km | 15 times | 144：50 | 160.4 km |
| accident | 0 times | 0：00 | 0.0km | 3 times | 6:54 | 24.2km |
| Other | 0 times | 0：00 | 0.0km | Once | 0:40 | 7.9km |
| total | 12 times | 94：38 | 125.9 km | 19 times | 152：24 | 192.5 km |
| May change | 63％ | 62％ | 65％ | |||
Number of exits and congestion status at major interchanges [PDF: 41KB]
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