Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
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- Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
May 9, 2011
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is a Tohoku Expressway managed by the Company during Golden Week [11th April 28 (Thursday) to 8th May 2011 (Sunday)]. We will inform you about the usage status of.
1. Number of units used [Attachments 1, 2, 3] [PDF: 186KB]
- The cross-sectional traffic per day for the seven main sections of the Tohoku region (excluding the free social experiment section) was approximately 32,900 vehicles per day, which was almost the same as the previous year.
- The number of interchanges (ICs) used per day (the number of cars that have passed through the toll gate, including the free social experiment section) is approximately 435,000 units, which is approximately 1.34 times the previous year due to the effect of the free social experiment. did.
- The peak traffic volume was on Tuesday, May 3 for the Out-bound line and Thursday, May 5, for the In-bound line.
2. Congestion status [Attachment 4] [PDF: 65KB]
- The day congestion there were many Out-bound quarters April 29 (Friday) and May 3 (Tuesday), In-bound was a district on May 3 (Tuesday) and 4 days (water) and 5 (Thursday).
The amount of traffic jams over 10km was reduced by about 15% compared to the previous year, and the number of traffic jams was 25 times (8 times Out-bound line, 17 times In-bound line), 2 times more than the previous year.
- The ETC utilization rate during the period was 71.4%.
1 Number of units used
The daily traffic volume of Expressway in the Tohoku region during the Golden Week period (the cross-sectional traffic volume of the seven major Expressway sections in the Tohoku region, not including the free social experiment sections) is almost the same as the previous year (about 32,800 vehicles) It was used by many customers with 32,900 units.
In addition, the number of vehicles that passed through the toll gates on the Expressway in the Tohoku region was approximately 435,000 per day, which was approximately 1.34 times the number used in the previous year (approximately 323,000).
The peak traffic volume was on Tuesday, May 3 for the Out-bound line, and Thursday, May 5, for the In-bound line.
2 congestion
The amount of traffic congestion, which indicates the size of traffic congestion of 10 km or more, was 1,838 kmh, which was smaller than the previous year.
The longest traffic jam on the Tohoku Expressway is about 32km in the Out-bound direction on Friday, April 29, near the Adachi Tara service area (Honmiya IC to Nihonmatsu IC), and in the In-bound direction, it is Shiraishi Interchange on Wednesday, May 4th. It was about 45km starting from the neighborhood (Shiraishi IC-Kunimi IC).
Congestion occurred 8 times in the Out-bound direction and 17 times in the In-bound direction, a total of 25 times.
* Congestion amount = [congestion extension (km) x congestion time (h) / 2]
[Reference (data of h22GW)]
- Traffic congestion...2,179kmh
- Number of traffic jams: 23 times (Out-bound direction: 13 times, In-bound direction: 10 times)
- The maximum congestion length ... Out-bound direction: May 1 (Saturday) Tohoku Expressway (top near Fukushima tunnel) about 55km
In-bound: Tuesday, May 4, Tohoku Expressway (head of Ichinoseki tunnel) 43km
3 ETC usage status
The ETC usage rate was 71.4%, a decrease of approximately 11.4 points compared to the previous year (82.8%).
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