About result of winter tire wearing situation investigation (the sixth)

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December 8, 2010
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office

NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City), in the wake of a full-fledged snowfall season, winter tires on Expressway were promoted with the aim of encouraging early replacement with winter tires and enlightening safe driving. We have conducted a survey on the mounting situation and have published the results.

The results of the survey conducted on December 6 are shown in the table below.

Since the winter tire installation rate for the entire Tohoku area has reached a little over 80% (the same level as last year), we will finalize this survey, but in some areas there is still no heavy snowfall, and in areas where the installation rate is low You can see it.

NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office will continue to carry out a wide range of awareness-raising activities through traffic safety campaigns and the website “DraPla”. (Thank you for your cooperation.)

Survey location Winter tire installation rate 【reference】
This time survey
(December 6th)
Last survey
(November 29)
Same period last year (December 7)
Aomori Prefecture Tohoku Expressway Aomori IC 100% 95% 100%
Hachinohe Road Hachinohe IC 91% 81% 100%
Akita Tohoku Expressway Towada IC 100% 97% 100%
Akita Expressway Akita Minami IC 93% 96% 96%
Akita Michi Yokote IC 100% 100% 100%
Iwate Prefecture Tohoku Expressway Morioka South IC 91% 84% 95%
Tohoku Expressway north Ezuriko IC 88% 78% 99%
Miyagi Prefecture Tohoku Expressway Furukawa IC 87% 91% 96%
Tohoku Expressway Sendai Miyagi IC 81% 61% 86%
Yamagata Prefecture Yamagata Expressway Yamagata Kita IC 92% 88% 98%
Yamagata Road Kushibiki PA 90% 93% 100%
Fukushima Prefecture Tohoku Expressway Fukushima Iizaka IC 67% 60% 53%
Tohoku Expressway Koriyama IC 73% 43% 83%
Ban-Etsu Expressway Aizuwakamatsu IC 85% 65% 94%
Joban Expressway Iwaki Chuo IC 40% 27% 35%
Tohoku Regional Head Office 85% 77% 84%
  • Survey method: Visually check the tire type of the vehicle passing through the entrance of the general lane at the tollgate. (One time: 100 units or 30 minutes or more)
  • "IC" stands for interchange, "PA" stands for parking area.

This document is based on a press release "About the results of the winter tire installation situation survey (first)-Starting efforts to promote early replacement of winter tires-(November 4, 2010)" It is a continuous survey.

Image of Dr. Mammoshi

In order to use the winter highway safely, securely and comfortably, NEXCO EAST enlightenment activities at SA, PA, IC, traffic safety campaign, "Drupa" HP 's winter highway We actively send out information such as lectures ".

* Dr. Mammoshi: A researcher specializing in car and snow road safety

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