Expressway during the Golden Week period
Traffic situation (within Niigata Prefecture) (flash report)
12 days from Saturday, April 25, 2015 to Wednesday, May 6, 2015
(FY2014 comparison period: Friday, April 25, 2014 to Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 12 days)
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- Expressway traffic during Golden Week (Niigata Prefecture) (preliminary report)
May 7, 2015
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Niigata branch (Niigata city Chuo Ward) organized the traffic situation during the Golden Week period.
[Summary of traffic conditions]
- The year-on-year change in the average daily traffic volume of the main sections, About 2% increase Did.
- The number of times of traffic over 5km 9 times, 4 times increase from the previous year Did.
- The biggest traffic jam that occurred during the period was Hokuriku Road (Out-bound line) Makigata East IC-Nakanoshima Mitsuke IC "15.3km" due to an accident that occurred on Sunday, May 3 was.
Main section during one period *1 Average daily traffic volume *2 (vehicles/day)
| Road name | section | 2015 A |
2014 B |
Year-on-year A / B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hokuriku Expressway | Makigata East IC-Niigata West IC | 50,400 | 50,800 | 99％ |
| Joetsu IC-Kakizaki IC | 25,000 | 24,700 | 101％ | |
| Familiar IC-Itoigawa IC | 22,100 | 22,300 | 99％ | |
| Kan-Etsu Expressway | Ojiya IC-Nagaoka IC | 25,300 | 25,000 | 101％ |
| Mizukami IC to Yuzawa IC | 28,100 | 27,000 | 104％ | |
| Ban-Etsu Expressway | Niitsu Nishi Smart IC-Niigata Central JCT | 13,600 | 12,700 | 107％ |
| Tsugawa IC-Mikawa IC | 13,200 | 13,200 | 100％ | |
| Joshin-Etsu Expressway | Joetsutakada IC-Joetsu JCT | 18,300 | 17,300 | 106％ |
| Shinano-machi IC - Myoko Kougen IC | 20,800 | 20,000 | 104％ | |
| Tohoku Expressway | Nakajo IC-Arakawa Wombai IC | 12,500 | 12,200 | 102％ |
| Daily traffic volume based on simple average of the above 10 sections | 22,900 | 22,500 | 102％ | |
"IC: Interchange", "JCT: Junction"
*1: Interchange section near the prefectural border and near major cities
*2: Traffic volume is based on traffic volume measuring equipment and may have some mechanical errors.
【reference】2015 And array of days of the week during 2014 Golden Week
2 congestion
2015 Occurrence of traffic jam during Golden Week (maximum traffic length of 5km or more): 9 times in total
The table below shows the worst 5th
| worst | Road name | Vertical line | Date and time of traffic jam | Traffic jam location | Congestion length | Congestion factors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hokuriku Expressway | under | Sunday, May 3 10:23 | Between Makigata East IC and Nakanoshima Mitsuke IC | 15.3km | accident |
| 2 | Joshin-Etsu Expressway | under | Tuesday, May 5 16:06 | Between Joetsutakada IC and Myokokogen IC | 13.6km | Traffic concentration And broken car |
| 3 | Joshin-Etsu Expressway | Up | Tuesday, May 5 9:12 | Between Nakago IC and Joetsu JCT | 9.9km | Accident and Traffic concentration |
| 4 | Hokuriku Expressway | under | Sunday, May 3 8:45 | Between Niigata West IC and Makigata East IC | 9.4km | accident |
| 5 | Joshin-Etsu Expressway | under | Sunday, May 3 15:39 | Between Joetsutakada IC and Nakago IC | 8.0km | Traffic concentration |
【reference】
Traffic congestion occurrence during the 2014 Golden Week period (maximum congestion length of 5 km or more): 5 times in total
| worst | Road name | Vertical line | Date and time of traffic jam | Traffic jam location | Congestion length | Congestion factors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshin-Etsu Expressway | under | Saturday, May 3 8:15 | Between Joetsutakada IC and Nakago IC | 11.1km | Traffic concentration |
| 2 | Joshin-Etsu Expressway | Up | Saturday, May 3 9:57 | Between Nakago IC and (Hokuriku Expressway) Joetsu IC | 10.8km | Traffic concentration |
| 3 | Hokuriku Expressway | under | Saturday, May 3 9:41 | Between Makigata East IC and Nakanoshima Mitsuke IC | 7.0km | accident |
| 4 | Joshin-Etsu Expressway | under | Sunday, May 4 16:13 | Between Joetsutakada IC and Nakago IC | 5.5km | Traffic concentration |
| 5 | Joshin-Etsu Expressway | under | Sunday, May 4 16:13 | Between Joetsutakada IC and Nakago IC | 5.1km | Traffic concentration |
3 Reference materials (attached sheet)
Reference material: Traffic volume (map version) of main sections [PDF: 142KB]
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