Expressway during the year-end and New Year holidays (Niigata Prefecture version) (breaking news)

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January 4, 3rd year of Reiwa
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office

NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office (Chuo-ku, Niigata City) summarized the traffic conditions during the year-end and New Year period [2020 to Sunday, January 3rd, 3rd year of Reiwa]...

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  1. The average daily traffic volume on the representative section decreased by 40% from the previous year.
  2. The traffic volume during the period reached its maximum on Saturday, December 26, for both the upper and lower lines.
  3. The number of traffic jams over 5km was 0 as in the previous year, and there were no traffic jams under 5km.

1. 1. Average daily traffic volume for representative sections * 1 during the year-end and New Year holidays * 2 (vehicles / day)

Road name section 2020 degree
A
2019 degree
B
Year-on-year
A / B
E8Hokuriku Expressway Asahi IC-Oyashirazu IC 7,800 14,500 54%
E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Minakami IC ~ Yuzawa IC 13,400 21,000 64%
Daily traffic volume based on simple average of the above 2 sections 10,600 17,750 60%
"IC: Interchange"
  1. Niigata Prefecture section of 40 Expressway major cities nationwide
    (https://www.mlit.go.jp/road/road_fr4_000090.html)
  2. Traffic volume is approximate by traffic counter (all models)

«Reference: comparison period» 2020 time, 2019 day of the week array of year-end and New Year period of degree

R2 year 12/26
(soil)
12/27
(Day)
12/28
(Moon)
12/29
(fire)
12/30
(water)
12/31
(wood)
1/1
(Money)
1/2
(soil)
1/3
(Day)
R year 12/26
(wood)
12/27
(FRI)
12/28
(SAT)
12/29
(SUN)
12/30
(MON)
12/31
(TUE)
1/1
(WED)
1/2
(THU)
1/3
(FRI)

2. Main congestion points

2020 traffic congestion situation of the degree of year-end and New Year period (maximum congestion length 5km or more): a total of 0 times
(There was no traffic jam less than 5km.)

«Reference» 2019 of year-end and New Year period traffic congestion situation of the (maximum congestion length 5km zero or more times)

Road name / direction Date and time of traffic jam Traffic jam location Congestion length Congestion factors
E8Hokuriku Expressway (below) 1/1 (Wednesday) 15:10 Niigata West-Sanjo Tsubame 1.0km accident
E18 Joshin-Etsu Expressway (below) 1/5 (Sun) 17:10 Joetsutakada-Arai SIC 1.0km accident
"SIC: Smart Interchange"

3. 3. Average daily traffic volume of representative sections (average of 2 sections)

Average daily traffic volume of representative section (average of 2 sections) Image of Out-bound
Average daily traffic volume of representative section (average of 2 sections) Image of In-bound
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