Expressway traffic during the year-end and New Year period
(Niigata Prefecture) (breaking news)
December 28, 2016 (Wednesday) to January 4, 2017 (Wednesday) 8 days
(Fiscal year 2015 comparison period: December 28, 2015 (Monday) to January 4, 2016 (Monday) 8 days)
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- Expressway traffic during the year-end and New Year holidays (Niigata Prefecture) (preliminary report)
January 5, 2017
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata office
NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office (Chuo-ku, Niigata City) has summarized the traffic conditions during the year-end and New Year holidays.
Traffic overview
- The year-on-year change in the average daily traffic volume of the main sections, About 3% increase Did.
- The traffic peak for the Out-bound line was December 30 (Friday), and the peak for the In-bound line was January 3 (Tue).
- The number of times of traffic over 5km 0 times It was (twice last year).
- The largest traffic congestion during the period is due to the accident that occurred on December 31 (Sat) at Hokuriku Road (In-bound line) Sanjo Tsubame IC-Makigata East IC, and the maximum traffic length is "1.9 km". was.
Major sections during one period *1 Average daily traffic *2 (Unit/day)
| Road name | section | FY2016 A |
FY2015 B |
Year-on-year A / B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hokuriku Expressway | Makigata East IC-Niigata West IC | 34,500 | 33,600 | 103％ |
| Joetsu IC-Kakizaki IC | 15,000 | 14,200 | 106％ | |
| Familiar IC-Itoigawa IC | 14,800 | 13,900 | 106％ | |
| Kan-Etsu Expressway | Ojiya IC-Nagaoka IC | 17,400 | 17,000 | 102％ |
| Minakami IC to Yuzawa IC | 24,800 | 25,300 | 98％ | |
| Ban-Etsu Expressway | Yasuda IC-Nitsu IC | 6,700 | 6,600 | 102％ |
| Tsugawa IC-Mikawa IC | 6,900 | 6,800 | 101％ | |
| Joshin-Etsu Expressway | Joetsutakada IC-Joetsu JCT | 10,900 | 10,300 | 106％ |
| Shinano-machi IC - Myoko Kougen IC | 13,500 | 13,000 | 104％ | |
| Tohoku Expressway | Nakajo IC-Arakawa Wombai IC | 7,700 | 7,200 | 107％ |
| Daily traffic volume based on simple average of the above 10 sections | 15,200 | 14,800 | 103％ | |
"IC: Interchange", "JCT: Junction"
- : Interchange section near prefectural borders and major cities
- : The traffic volume is due to the traffic volume measuring device, and there are some mechanical errors.
[Reference] Day arrangement for the year-end and New Year holidays of 2016 and 2015
2 congestion
2016 Traffic congestion during the year-end and New Year period (maximum traffic length of 5 km or more): None
3 Reference materials (attached sheet)
- Reference material 1: Traffic volume (map version) of main sections [PDF: 198KB]
- Reference material 2: Average daily traffic volume (graph) of main sections [PDF: 219KB]
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