Traffic situation on Expressway in Niigata prefecture during the year-end and New Year holidays
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- Traffic situation on Expressway in Niigata prefecture during the year-end and New Year holidays
January 5, 2007
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. Niigata Regional Head Office (Niigata City, Regional Head Office length: Hiroyuki Matsuda), the out of the year-end and New Year holidays of this year, 2006 December 27 (Wed.) to January 2007 4 days 9 days (Thursday) We have summarized the traffic conditions on the Expressway in our Regional Head Office.
1 Number of passengers in the entire jurisdiction and by road (average daily)
During the period, the number of Expressway used by our Regional Head Office was about 71,000 units/day, which was the same period of the previous year [Tuesday, December 27, 2005-Wednesday, January 4, 2006] Compared to this, it has increased by 0.8%.
| By road | H18 year A |
2017 year B |
Year-on-year (%) A/B |
|---|---|---|---|
| The entire Niigata Regional Head Office | 70,642 | 70,061 | 100.8 |
| Hokuriku Expressway (Asahi-Niigata Central Junction) | 34,365 | 33,007 | 104.1 |
| Kan-Etsu Expressway (Mizukami-Nagaoka Junction) | 20,696 | 21,524 | 96.2 |
| Ban-Etsu Expressway (Tsugawa-Niigata Central Junction) | 4,716 | 4,785 | 98.6 |
| Joshin-Etsu Expressway (Shinanomachi-Joetsu Junction) | 3,401 | 3,367 | 101.0 |
| Nihonkai-Tohoku Expressway (Niigata Chuo Junction-Nakajo) | 7,464 | 7,378 | 101.2 |
2 congestion
Traffic jams of 5 km or more due to accidents and traffic concentration did not occur during the period (4 times last year).
The longest traffic jam during the period is about 3km due to a chain check on the Kan-Etsu Expressway (In-bound line) on Saturday, December 30th.
Congestion status (congestion over 5km)
| 2006 (December 27th-January 1st) | 2005 (December 27th-January 1st) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of times | Total time | Extension | Number of times | Total time | Extension | |
| Snow and traffic concentration | No occurrence | 3 times | 24:59 | 39.2km | ||
| accident | Once | 0:21 | 5.6km | |||
| total | 4 times | 25:20 | 44.8km | |||
| Increase or decrease | ▲ 4 times | ▲25:20 | ▲44.8km | |||
- Reference materials Number of vehicles used, traffic jam occurrence status list, etc. [PDF: 49KB]
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