Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
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- Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
May 7, 2012
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is the Expressway in the Tohoku region that we manage during Golden Week [Friday, April 27, 2012-Sunday, May 6, 2012] We will inform you about the usage status of.
During this period, the number of interchange users (the number of vehicles that passed the exit toll gate, etc.) and the amount of traffic congestion (*1) decreased compared to the same period of the previous year due to the free social experiment conducted last year and the effect of bad weather. ..
1 Number of units used
[Average traffic volume on 7 cross sections of main line]
- All cars
: About 98% of the previous year (about 33,000 units/day) - Vehicle type
: Small vehicles (light vehicles, ordinary vehicles) Approximately 101% of the previous year (approximately 29,000 units/day)
: Large vehicles (medium-sized vehicles, large vehicles, oversized vehicles) About 80% of the previous year (about 40,000 units/day)
- peak
: Out-bound line is May 3 (Thursday), In-bound line is May 5 (Sat)
[Number of interchanges used (number of vehicles passing through exit toll gates, etc.)]
- All cars
: Approximately 84% of the previous year (approximately 374,000 units/day) - Vehicle type
: Small vehicles about 86% of the previous year (about 337,000 units/day)
: Large vehicles about 70% of the previous year (about 37 thousand units/day)
- By prefecture [YoY change]
: Last year, the number decreased, mainly in prefectures where free social experiments were conducted.
Aomori: About 73% (about 32,000 units/day), Iwate: About 102% (about 55,000 units/day), Akita: About 59% (about 38,000 units/day), Miyagi: About 97 % (About 10 million units/day), Yamagata: about 53% (about 56,000 units/day), Fukushima: about 124% (about 93,000 units/day)
2 congestion
- Congestion of 10 km or more on the main line occurred 11 times to the Out-bound area (+3 times from the previous year) and 17 times to the In-bound area (+/- 0 times from the previous year) for a total of 28 times (+3 times from the previous year). ..
- The maximum length of traffic on the main line was 43.4 km (-1.6 km compared to the previous year), and it occurred on Thursday, May 3 between the Nihonmatsu interchange and the Shirakawa interchange on the Tohoku Expressway (Out-bound). This traffic jam was caused by an accident that occurred near the Adachi Tara service area, a merger from the Adachi Tara service area to the main line, and a sag (*2) in the vicinity.
- The amount of congestion (*1) was 1,523 km·h (about 83% of the previous year).
2 ※ Out-bound from the hill In-bound where it reaches the hill
Comparison period
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