NEXCO EAST Kanto Regional Head Office from (Taito-ku, Tokyo), in August Tokyo Wan Aqua-Line Expressway and the Notice of congestion prediction of (Aqua line), ask for your cooperation for congestion relief, In-bound carried out in the vicinity of Kawasaki floating island junction (JCT) We would like to introduce our efforts to alleviate traffic congestion by using "Pacemaker Light".

The congestion of August of this year, this spring of Ken-O Road also affected, such as opening, is expected to be larger than last year, especially In-bound line, Obon period of 18 days from August 11 (Sat) (day) It is expected that there will be heavy traffic every day in the evening.

Please avoid using the traffic by shifting the aqualine usage time before and after the peak traffic hours. Also, if you are going through a busy time, please cooperate with driving with the blue light of the pacemaker light as a mark to speed recovery.

About summer traffic jam prediction

The traffic forecast for the Aqua Line over 5km in August is as follows.

2 Use when avoiding peak traffic hours on the Aqua Line

Congestion peaks occur at around 17:00 in the evening on the In-bound line and at around 8 in the morning on the Out-bound line.
Especially for the In-bound line, the time to pass the Kisarazu JCT is Advance 2 hours from 17:00 to 15:00] Or "Delay 3 hours to 20:00 This means that the transit time will be shortened by 1 hour or more. Please use it as a reference for changing the time when using the service.

3 Measures against traffic congestion with pacemaker lights and their effects

Aqua line In-bound in the vicinity of the aqua tunnel in Kawasaki floating island JCT of the line, "In-bound congestion caused by the decrease in speed in the hill" has occurred. As a countermeasure, only during busy hours, light from "blue LED lights (pacemaker lights)" installed on both sides of the road will be emitted so as to travel in the direction of travel. As a result, "customers In-bound is an attempt to reduce the rate of decrease in the slope", expect the easing traffic congestion.

From the trial operation results from GW, we were able to confirm the traffic congestion mitigation effect near the Kawasaki Ukishima JCT as follows.