Traffic conditions on Expressway in Niigata Prefecture during the Obon season (preliminary report)
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August 17, 2010
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office (Niigata Nishi-ku) is, those in the 12 days of this year's Obon period August 2010 5 (Thursday) - 2010 August 16 (Monday) Regional Head Office of the tube Expressway traffic I have summarized the situation, so let me know.
1 Number of passengers in the entire jurisdiction and by road (average daily)
The number of units used increased by 26.1%.
During the period, the number of Expressway used by the Regional Head Office was about 146,000 units/day, which was the same as the previous year [12 days from Thursday, August 6, 2009 to Monday, August 17, 2009]. Compared to this, it increased by 26.1%.
| By road | H22 A |
H21 year B |
YoY (%) A/B |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The entire Niigata Regional Head Office | 145,773 | 115,642 | 126.1％ | |
| By road | Hokuriku Expressway (Asahi-Niigata Chuo Junction) |
56,518 | 57,312 | 98.6％ |
| Kan-Etsu Expressway (Minakami- Nagaoka Junction) * |
26,785 | 26,725 | 100.2％ | |
| Ban-Etsu Expressway (Tsugawa-Niigata Central) |
13,380 | 9,371 | 142.8％ | |
| Joshin-Etsu Expressway (Shinanomachi-Joetsu Junction) * |
4,619 | 4,571 | 101.1％ | |
| Nihonkai-Tohoku Expressway (Niigata Chuo Junction-Arakawa womb) |
44,471 | 17,662 | 251.8％ | |
*The number of vehicles used in Asahi and Shinanomachi is not included.
2 congestion
Congestion over 5km occurred 21 times.
Congestion over 5 km due to traffic concentration and accidents occurred 21 times during the period (13 times last year).
The longest traffic jam during the period is approximately 23km of traffic caused by traffic concentration on the Hokuriku Road (In-bound line) on Sunday, August 15th.
・Congestion status (congestion over 5km)
| Classification | 2010 (8/5-8/16) | 2009 (8/6-8/17) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of times | Total time | Maximum extension total | Number of times | Total time | Maximum extension total | |
| Traffic concentration | 18 times | 128：57 | 176.1 km | 11 times | 93：04 | 124.5 km |
| accident | 3 times | 10：47 | 22.9km | Twice | 5：57 | 16.5km |
| Other | 0 times | 0：00 | 0.0km | 0 times | 0：00 | 0.0km |
| total | 21 times | 139：44 | 199.0 km | 13 times | 99：01 | 141.0 km |
| Increase or decrease | +8 times | +40：43 | +58.0km | |||
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