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Expressway usage during the Obon period [Tohoku region version]

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August 19, 2019
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office

NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Sendai Aoba-ku) is, Obon period [2019, August 8 (Thursday) -2019, August 18 (Sunday) of 11 days] Tohoku region of the Company to management in We are pleased to inform you that we have summarized the usage status of the Expressway

Traffic volume

Attachment-1 [PDF: 176KB]
Attachment-2 [PDF: 134KB]

  • Average daily traffic volume in the Tohoku region compared to the previous year About 101% (Approximately 29,000 units / day).
  • The peak traffic volume is Out-bound line is Sunday, August 11th, In-bound line is Thursday, August 15th was.

Congestion

Attachment-3 [PDF: 398KB]

  • The number of traffic jams over 5 km 31 times in the Out-bound direction (± 0 times from the previous year), 19 times in the In-bound direction (+2 times from the previous year), 50 times (+2 times from the previous year) Has occurred.
  • The maximum length of traffic is Saturday, August 10, around 10:21, E4 Tohoku Expressway (Out-bound line) 26.0km that started near Adara Tara SA was. This traffic jam was caused by traffic concentration.

<Average daily traffic during the period>

[FY2018: H30.8.9 (Thursday) -H30.8.19 (Sunday)]

[1] R1 year results [2] H30 FY results YoY [1] / [2]
Average daily traffic volume 28,500 units / day 28,300 units / day 100.7％

* A simple average of the 16 main sections. Detailed daily traffic is Attachment-1 [PDF: 176KB] please look at.

《Number of traffic jams》

[FY2018: H30.8.9 (Thursday) -H30.8.19 (Sunday)]

Traffic jam scale [1] R1 year results [2] H30 FY results [3] Difference [1]-[2]
total going down going up total going down going up total going down going up
Congestion over 5km 50 31 19 48 31 17 2 0 2
Of which, traffic congestion of 10 km or more 25 17 8 28 18 10 ▲3 ▲1 ▲2
Image of traffic count (congestion over 5km) [Out-bound Line]
Image of the number of traffic jams (5km or more) [In-bound]

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