Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
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- Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
May 7, 2014
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is a Tohoku Expressway managed by the Company during the Golden Week period (Friday, April 25, 2014 to Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 12 days). We will inform you about the usage status of.
During this period, both traffic volume and traffic congestion (*) decreased compared to the previous year.
1 Number of units used
Average traffic volume on the seven main cross sections
- All cars: about 93% of the previous year (about 30 thousand units/day)
- Vehicle type: Small vehicles (light vehicles, ordinary vehicles) About 93% of the previous year (about 26 thousand units/day)
: Large vehicles (medium-sized vehicles, large vehicles, oversized vehicles) Approximately 93% of the previous year (approximately 40,000 units/day)
Attachment-1 [PDF:115KB] - Peak: Out-bound line May 3 (Saturday), In-bound line May 5 (Mon.)
Attachment-2 [PDF: 107KB]
Number of interchanges used (number of vehicles passing through exit toll gates, etc.)
- All cars: About 96% of the previous year (about 379,000 units/day)
- Vehicle type: Small vehicles Approximately 96% of the previous year (approximately 337,000 units/day)
: Large vehicles about 98% of the previous year (about 43,000 units/day)
Attachment-3 [PDF: 104KB] - By prefecture [YoY change]
Aomori: About 101% (about 32,000 units/day), Iwate: About 92% (about 54,000 units/day), Akita: About 98% (about 36,000 units/day), Miyagi: About 97 % (About 115,000 units/day), Yamagata: about 94% (about 51,000 units/day), Fukushima: about 96% (about 92,000 units/day)
Attachment-4 [PDF: 548KB]
2 congestion
- Congestion of 10 km or more on the main line occurred 6 times in the Out-bound direction (7 times compared to the previous year) and 10 times in the In-bound direction (3 times compared to the previous year) for a total of 16 times (10 times compared to the previous year).
- The maximum length of congestion on the main line is 33.9 km (-7.9 km compared to the previous year), and the Tohoku Expressway Kunimi Interchange (IC)-Sendai on Saturday, May 3 (9:04 to 13:32 peak time 11:05) It occurred between Miyagi IC (In-bound line). This traffic jam was caused by an accident and traffic concentration near the Shiraishi IC.
- The amount of traffic congestion was 899 km·h (64% of the previous year), a decrease of about 40%.
- Congestion extension (km) × congestion time (h) ÷ 2
Comparison period
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