Expressway usage during the year-end and New Year period (preliminary report) [Tohoku region version]
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- Expressway usage during the year-end and New Year period (preliminary report) [Tohoku region version]
2019 January 7
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is during the year-end and New Year period [December 28, 2018 (Friday) to 2019, January 6 (Sunday) 10 days] We would like to inform you that we have summarized the usage status of Expressway in the Tohoku region that we manage.
1 traffic volume
- Average daily traffic volume in the Tohoku region compared to the previous year About 97% (Approximately 16,000 units / day).
- The peak traffic volume is Out-bound in line December 29 (Saturday), In-bound January 3 in the line (Thursday) was.
2 congestion
- Congestion over 5km occurred 4 times in the Out-bound direction (+3 times from the previous year) and 0 times in the In-bound direction (-2 times from the previous year) (+1 times from the previous year).
- The maximum length of traffic jam is around 13:00 on Saturday, December 29, E4 Tohoku Expressway (Out-bound line) It was 8.3km that occurred near the Fukushima West IC. This traffic congestion was caused by accidents and traffic concentration.
Congestion status
<Average daily traffic during the period>
[FY2017: Dec 28 (Thu) ~ Dec 30 (Sat) H30]
| [1] FY2018 results | [2] 2017 results | YoY [1] / [2] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average daily traffic volume | 16,400 units / day | 16,900 units / day | 97.0％ |
- Simple average of 16 main sections. Please see Attachment-1 [PDF: 160KB] for detailed daily traffic volume.
《Number of traffic jams》
[FY2017: Dec 28 (Thu) ~ Dec 30 (Sat) H30]
| Traffic jam scale | [1] FY2018 results | [2] 2017 results | [3] Difference ([1]-[2]) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| total | going down | going up | total | going down | going up | total | going down | going up | |
| Number of traffic jams over 5km | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ▲2 |
| Of which, the number of traffic congestions of 10 km or more | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ▲1 | 0 | ▲1 |
![Image of actual traffic count [Out-bound]](/rest/pressroom/press_release/tohoku/h31/0107/images/01a.jpg)
![Image of actual traffic count [In-bound]](/rest/pressroom/press_release/tohoku/h31/0107/images/01b.jpg)
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