Traffic conditions on Expressway in Niigata during the year-end and New Year holidays (preliminary report)
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- Traffic conditions on Expressway in Niigata during the year-end and New Year holidays (preliminary report)
January 7, 2008
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office (Niigata Nishi-ku, Regional Head Office length: Yoshio Shiraishi), the out of the year-end and New Year holidays of this year, those in the 12 days of December 2007 26 days (Wed.) to January 2008 6 (Sunday) We have summarized the traffic conditions on the Expressway within the 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 the Regional Head Office was approximately 70,000 units/day, and it was the same period last year [12th December 2006 (Wednesday) to 7th January 2007 (Sunday)]. Compared to this, it has increased by 2.5%.
| By road | H19 year A | H18 year B | YoY (%) A/B |
|---|---|---|---|
| The entire Niigata Regional Head Office | 70,465 | 68,727 | 102.5 |
| Hokuriku Expressway (Asahi-Niigata Central Junction) | 34,764 | 33,786 | 102.9 |
| Kan-Etsu Expressway (Mizukami-Nagaoka Junction) | 20,269 | 19,941 | 101.6 |
| Ban-Etsu Expressway (Tsugawa-Niigata Central Junction) | 4,660 | 4,579 | 101.8 |
| Joshin-Etsu Expressway (Shinanomachi-Joetsu Junction) | 3,133 | 3,196 | 98.0 |
| Nihonkai-Tohoku Expressway (Niigata Chuo Junction-Nakajo) | 7,639 | 7,225 | 105.7 |
2 congestion
No traffic congestion of more than 5km did not occur due to accidents or traffic concentration. Congestion over 1km occurred 7 times during the period (11 last year). The longest traffic jam during the period is about 2km due to a chain check on the Kan-Etsu Expressway (In-bound line) on January 2 (Wednesday).
[Congestion status (congestion over 1km)]
| FY2007 (12/26~1/6 of the next day) | 2006 (December 27th-July 1st) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of times | Total time | Total extension | Number of times | Total time | Total extension | |
| Snow and traffic concentration | 7 | 9：04 | 9.7km | 5 | 5：18 | 7.4km |
| accident | ― | ― | ― | 6 | 6：37 | 15.4km |
| total | 7 | 9：04 | 9.7km | 11 | 11：55 | 22.8km |
| Increase or decrease | ▲4 | ▲2：51 | ▲ 13.1km | ― | ||
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