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Expressway traffic conditions during Golden Week (flash report)
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May 9, 4th year of Reiwa
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.

NEXCO EAST (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) has summarized the traffic conditions during the Golden Week period [April 28, 4th (Thursday) -May 8th, 4th (Sunday): 11 days]. To do.

  • The average daily traffic volume was 74% compared to the same period in the first 2019 (before the Korona-ka) (up 131% compared to last year). * 1
  • The number of traffic jams over 10km was 97, which was 57% compared to the same period in the 2019 (up to 190% compared to the previous year).
  • The number of traffic jams over 30km was 14 times, which was 56% compared to the same period in the 2019 (up to 467% compared to the previous year).
  • The maximum congestion length was 51.9km, which occurred around 10:25 on May 3 (Tuesday), at the beginning of the E17 Kan-Etsu Expressway (Out-bound line) near ​Ranzan Ranzan PA.

* 1: For details, please see Attachment 1-1 [PDF: 275KB] and Attachment 1-2 [PDF: 274KB].

1. 1. Comparison period

  1. 4th year of Reiwa [Thursday, April 28, 4th year of Reiwa-Sunday, May 8th, 4th year of Reiwa: 11 days]
  2. 2019 degrees [2019 From Friday, April 26 to Monday, May 6, 2019: 11 days]
  3. (Reference) Reiwa 3rd year [Wednesday, April 28, 3rd year of Reiwa-Wednesday, May 5th, 3rd year of Reiwa: 8 days]

2. Traffic volume

(1) Reiwa 4th year results (2) Actual results 2019 Contrast (1) / (2) reference
(3) Reiwa 3rd year results Contrast (1) / (3)
Average daily traffic volume * 1
(All cars)		 30,300 units / day 41,000 units / day 74％ 23,100 units / day 131％
(Small) (large) 26,000 4,300 36,400 4,600 71％ 93％ 19,000 4,100 137％ 105％
Maximum daily traffic 41,900 units / day 49,000 units / day 86％ 26,300 units / day 159％

3. 3. Congestion situation

(1) Reiwa 4th year results (2) Actual results 2019 Contrast (1) / (2) reference
(3) Reiwa 3rd year results Contrast (1) / (3)
Traffic congestion of 10 km or more 97 times 169 times 57％ 51 times 190％
Traffic congestion of 30 km or more 14 times 25 times 56％ 3 times 467％

≪Especially long traffic jams (worst place by top and bottom) ≫

[Reiwa 4th year]

Vertical line Road name Congestion location * 2 Peak date and time Extension Factor
1 Out-bound E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Near Ranzan Ranzan PA May 3 (Tuesday) around 10:25 51.9 km Traffic concentration and accident
2 E4 Tohoku Expressway Hanyu Hanyu Near PA May 3 (Tuesday) around 11:00 42.8km Accident and traffic concentration
3 E14 Tateyama Road Near Ichihara Ichihara IC May 4th (Wednesday) around 10:10 35.4km Traffic concentration and accident
1 In-bound direction E4 Tohoku Expressway Near Kuki Kuki IC​ May 1st (Sun) around 17:40 45.0 km Traffic concentration and accident
2 E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA May 4th (Wednesday) around 16:30 44.0 km Traffic concentration and accident
E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA May 5th (Thursday) around 15:55 44.0 km Traffic concentration and accident

[2019]

Vertical line Road name Congestion location * 2 Peak date and time Extension Factor
1 Out-bound E4 Tohoku Expressway Hanyu Hanyu Near PA April 28 (Sun) around 7:10 40.6km Accident and traffic concentration
Monday, April 29, around 9:20 Traffic concentration and accident
May 2 (Thursday) around 8:45 Accident and traffic concentration
1 In-bound direction E4 Tohoku Expressway Near Kuki Kuki IC​ May 2 (Thursday) 18:10 49.7 km Traffic concentration and accident
2 E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA May 2 (Thursday) around 17:55 47.3km Traffic concentration and accident
3 E4 Tohoku Expressway Kamikawachi Kamikawachi Near SA May 2 (Thursday) around 17:45 46.5km Traffic concentration

(Reference) [Reiwa 3rd year]

Vertical line Road name Congestion location * 2 Peak date and time Extension Factor
1 Out-bound E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA May 2nd (Sun) around 9:30 30.9km Traffic concentration and accident
2 E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA May 3 (Monday) around 10:00 29.9km Traffic concentration and broken car
3 E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA May 1st (Sat) around 11:05 24.7km Accident and traffic concentration
1 In-bound direction E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Kawagoe Kawagoe Near IC May 4th (Tuesday) around 18:20 41.1km Traffic concentration
2 E17Kan-Etsu Expressway Takasaka Takasaka Near SA May 3 (Monday) around 17:10 31.8km Traffic concentration and accident
3 E4 Tohoku Expressway Kazo Kazo near IC May 3 (Monday) around 18:45 28.6km Accident and traffic concentration

* 2: IC: Interchange, SA: Service area, PA: Parking area

Four. Daily traffic conditions

  • The peak number of traffic jams was May 3 (Tuesday) for the Out-bound direction and May 4 (Wednesday) for the In-bound direction.

[Out-bound]

[Out-bound] Image of traffic volume
[Out-bound] Image of the number of traffic jams (10km or more)

[In-bound]

[In-bound] Image of traffic volume
[In-bound] Image of the number of traffic jams (10km or more)

Five. Reference materials

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