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Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]

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May 7, 2018
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku office

NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is a Tohoku Expressway managed by the Company during Golden Week [Friday, April 27, 2018-Sunday, May 6, 2018] We will inform you about the usage status of.

　Compared to the previous year, the traffic volume during the period was about the same, and the congestion over 10 km decreased 5 times.

1 traffic volume Attachment-1 [PDF: 200KB] Attachment-2 [PDF: 227KB]

  • The average daily traffic volume for the 16 representative sections of the Tohoku Regional Head Office was about 99% (about 26 thousand vehicles / day) compared to the previous year.
  • The peak traffic volume was on the Out-bound line on Thursday, May 3 and on the In-bound line on Saturday, May 5.

2 congestion Attachment-3 [PDF: 446KB]

  • Congestion times of 10km or more occurred 4 times (5 times compared to the previous year), 1 for the Out-bound direction (-4 times compared to the previous year) and 3 times for the In-bound direction (-1 time compared to the previous year).
  • Congestion over 5km occurred 19 times (+2 times from the previous year), 9 times in the Out-bound direction (± 0 times from the previous year) and 10 times in the In-bound direction (+2 times from the previous year).
  • The maximum length of traffic jam is around 12:10 on Thursday, May 3rd, E4 Tohoku Expressway (In-bound line) It was 17.5km that occurred near the Fukushima tunnel. This traffic jam was caused by a broken car and traffic concentration.

Congestion status

[Number of traffic jams]

Image of the number of traffic jams

Image of actual traffic count [Out-bound]

Image of actual traffic count [Climbing line]

For details, please refer to the attached materials.

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