About result of winter tire wearing situation investigation on Expressway

~November 9th, 2009~

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November 11, 2009
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office

NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba-ku, Sendai, Regional Head Office president: Mikio Kashima), Check the winter tire installation status and ask the customer to replace the tires early. Therefore, Expressway in major interchanges (IC), has implemented the mounting survey of winter tire in the early winter period.

The results of the survey conducted on November 9 are shown in the table below.

In North Tohoku (Aomori prefecture, Akita prefecture, Iwate prefecture) and Yamagata prefecture, the winter tire installation rate is higher than the previous survey (conducted on November 2), but it is still low in the whole Tohoku It is in

In the Tohoku region, there are many places where the first snow is already observed, and the first snow observation day is earlier than usual.

From now on, in the full-fledged winter, snow is expected in the northeastern part of the country, the Yamagata road, and the mountainous areas of Ban-Etsu Expressway, so please use Expressway In that case, please attach a winter tire early and drive safely.

Survey location Winter tire installation rate 【reference】
Same period last year
(November 10)
This time survey
(November 9)
Last survey
(November 2)
Tohoku Expressway Aomori IC 44% 26% 58%
Tohoku Expressway Towada IC 53% 23% 43%
Hachinohe Road Hachinohe IC 27% 18% 47%
Akita Expressway Akita Minami IC 27% 17% 31%
Akita Michi Yokote IC 30% 13% 47%
Tohoku Expressway Morioka South IC 49% 9% 27%
Tohoku Expressway north Ezuriko IC 27% 19% twenty four%
Tohoku Expressway Furukawa IC 10% 3% 11%
Tohoku Expressway Sendai Miyagi IC 19% 9% 5%
Yamagata Expressway Yamagata Kita IC 35% 17% 23%
Yamagata Expressway Tsuruoka IC 45% 2% 30%
Tohoku Expressway Fukushima Iizaka IC 26% 17% 15%
Tohoku Expressway Koriyama IC 29% 33% 22%
Ban-Etsu Expressway Aizuwakamatsu IC 29% 0% 8%
Joban Expressway Iwaki Chuo IC 12% 4% 8%
Tohoku Regional Head Office 29% 12% 23%

The next survey is scheduled for November 16th.
(It may be changed without notice if the survey could not be performed due to bad weather etc.)

  • Survey method: Visually check the tire type of the vehicle passing through the general lane at the tollgate.

(One time: about 100 units or 30 to 60 minutes)

This material has been updated with the latest data as a supplementary material to the press release “Starting efforts to promote early replacement of winter tires” (November 6, 2009) .

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