In 2020, Spring Festival travel rush will begin on January 10th.

In 2020, Spring Festival travel rush will begin on January 10th.
3 billion passengers, how to travel more smoothly?

The Spring Festival in 2020 is the earliest Lunar New Year in recent 8 years. Before the holiday, the student flow and the work flow are superimposed on each other, and the passenger flow is relatively concentrated. During the peak period, the capacity of some key railway directions and a few hot air routes of civil aviation is relatively tight. Facing the pressure from Spring Festival travel rush, railways, highways and civil aviation will continue to enhance their transport capacity, promote more convenient transfer, travel more intelligently, and expand the scope of fare concessions to ensure that passengers not only "walk well" but also "walk fast".

On December 25th, 2020, the National Spring Festival travel rush Video Conference was held in Beijing. Lian Weiliang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that in 2020, Spring Festival travel rush will start on January 10th and end on February 18th. Of the 3 billion passenger flows in Spring Festival travel rush, 2.43 billion were by road, down 1.2% year-on-year; 440 million railway passengers, an increase of 8%; 79 million passenger trips in civil aviation, an increase of 8.4%; 45 million passengers were transported by water, an increase of 9.6%.

Spring Festival travel rush faces four major pressures and continues to implement free passage of passenger cars on expressways.

According to Lian Weiliang, migrant workers, students and visiting relatives will still be the mainstream in Spring Festival travel rush in 2020. The characteristics of the Spring Festival holiday are becoming more and more obvious, and the number of tourists has greatly increased. The proportion of the number of immigrants to the local resident population during the Spring Festival travel rush period in Sanya, Hainan ranks among the top in the country. Despite the increasing traffic support capacity, it still faces four major pressures.

Passenger flow concentration pressure. The Spring Festival in 2020 is the earliest Lunar New Year in recent 8 years. Before the holiday, the student flow and the work flow are superimposed on each other, and the passenger flow is relatively concentrated. During the peak period, the capacity of some key railway directions and a few hot air routes of civil aviation is relatively tight. Many scenic spots are overcrowded and there are insufficient supporting facilities such as parking.

Security pressure in Spring Festival travel rush. Fu Jianhua, Vice Minister of Emergency Management Department, said that there have been two major and above road traffic accidents in China since this year, which exposed the outstanding problems in the current road transportation field, such as illegal operation of passenger vehicles and overloading of trucks. In addition, during the Spring Festival, rural fairs, temple fairs and other folk activities are concentrated, and the flow of people and cars increases sharply compared with usual, while rural roads are of low grade, traffic signs and other facilities are not complete, and traffic hidden dangers are prominent.

Road congestion pressure. According to Liu Xiaoming, Vice Minister of Transportation, the number of private cars in China will exceed 200 million by the end of 2019. Affected by the cancellation of provincial toll stations on expressways and the continued implementation of the policy of free passage of minibuses on expressways during the Spring Festival holiday, the proportion of people traveling by car will be further increased during the Spring Festival, and the pressure on road network security will be further increased.

"In all provinces, serious highway congestion exceeding 10 kilometers should be reported to the responsible comrades of the provincial government in time, and those exceeding 15 kilometers should be reported to the main responsible comrades of the provincial government." Lian Weiliang revealed that last year, the average daily congestion mileage in Spring Festival travel rush, Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu and Anhui increased by more than 20% year-on-year, especially the inter-provincial traffic flow passing through Hunan and Anhui was huge, and the most congested road sections on the peak day of the return trip on the sixth day of the first month were mainly concentrated in these two provinces. "This year, Spring Festival travel rush will use big data technology to detect congested road sections and report areas with more heavily congested road sections."

Bad weather stress. Lu Erxue, deputy director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said that since the winter, heavy snow and low visibility weather have appeared many times in the northern region, and bad weather such as winter rain will also occur in the southern region. "During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the transportation task was heavy, there were many overtime and passengers, and the equipment and personnel were in a state of high load operation, which made the support more difficult."

E-tickets for high-speed rail will be fully promoted, and the discount for passenger train tickets will be expanded.

Faced with the pressure from Spring Festival travel rush, railways, highways and civil aviation have tried their best to ensure that passengers can not only walk well, but also walk well and quickly.

Transport capacity continues to increase. This year, the railway capacity increased by 7% compared with the previous year in Spring Festival travel rush, of which 5,275 pairs of passenger trains were arranged before the festival, and the passenger capacity increased by 7.7% year-on-year; After the festival, 5,410 pairs of trains were arranged, and the passenger capacity increased by 6.9% year-on-year. Civil aviation is expected to guarantee 704,000 take-off and landing flights of domestic and foreign airlines, up 6% year-on-year. At the same time, it will increase the capacity by arranging overtime and changing larger models in a targeted manner. In terms of road and water transport, it is estimated that 790,000 operating buses will provide 23.1 million seats and 19,000 passenger ships will provide 830,000 seats.

It is more convenient to transfer. During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the temporarily added trains and flights were successfully connected by the city bus, so as to get through the "last mile" for Spring Festival travel rush passengers to go home. Lian Weiliang introduced that in Spring Festival travel rush last year, 287 pairs of additional passenger trains, 88.5 pairs of night EMUs and 5,166 civil aviation overtime flights were connected. This year, all localities will continue to provide corresponding protection.

Travel is smarter. Li Wenxin, deputy general manager of the National Railway Group, said that in 2020, Spring Festival travel rush will expand the online standby ticketing service to all passenger cars, and at the same time comprehensively promote e-tickets on high-speed rail trunk lines and intercity railways, so that passengers can take the high-speed rail without collecting tickets. "The railway will continue to optimize and improve online ordering, intelligent navigation at the station, mobile payment, face-brushing pit stop, online seat selection, code scanning payment and other measures to give passengers a better experience."

Fare concessions are extended. Li Wenxin introduced that this year, it will also expand the direction of the temporary passenger discount, increase the scope and quantity of the temporary passenger discount, increase the preferential range of the temporary passenger discount, and provide preferential benefits for the reverse passenger flow in Spring Festival travel rush.

Minimize road closures, severely punish "slaughtering passengers" and "scalping tickets", and severely crack down on "machine trouble" and "dominating seats"

Spring Festival travel rush Road must be Ping ‘an Road. According to Lian Weiliang, there are five short board problems in Spring Festival travel rush, which are more prominent in various places, mainly focusing on road travel. First, some highway sections and service areas have small capacity, and some local mean time are saturated, and the peak flow exceeds the design capacity several times; Second, it is difficult to park vehicles returning home, and there is a safety hazard in parking in the road; Third, the installation of rural road safety warning signs is insufficient, and some road sections are relatively lacking in protective facilities and management capabilities are relatively weak; Fourth, holiday travel congestion; Fifth, the ability to respond to bad weather is poor. In some places, traditional measures such as stopping work and closing roads can only be taken.

"Local public security organs will strengthen guidance around key areas, node sections and peak hours that are prone to congestion. It is necessary to improve the linkage mechanism between police and insurance, implement quick compensation measures for traffic accidents, and prevent small accidents from causing big congestion. " Li Jiangping, director of the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, said.

In addition, in terms of safety supervision, Spring Festival travel rush has "four strictness" this year: strict management of key vehicles such as "two passengers, one danger and one cargo", school buses and rural vans; Strictly investigate serious violations of the law such as "three super-fatigue" and drunk driving; Severely punish outstanding crimes such as "slaughtering customers" and "scalping tickets"; Strictly crack down on illegal acts such as "machine trouble" and "hegemony" that endanger transportation order and operational safety. (Reporter Lu Yanan)