Expressway usage during the Obon season [Tohoku region version]
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- Expressway usage during the Obon season [Tohoku region version]
August 18, 2014
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is a Expressway in the Tohoku region managed by the Company during the Obon season [11th August 2014 (Thursday) to 17th August 2014 (Sunday)] We will inform you about the usage status of.
During this period, traffic volume decreased and traffic congestion (*1) increased compared to last year.
1 Number of units used
[Average traffic volume on 7 cross sections of main line]
- All cars: About 92% of the previous year (about 35,000 units/day)
- Vehicle type
: Small vehicles (light vehicles, ordinary vehicles) About 92% of the previous year (about 30 thousand units/day)
: Large vehicles (medium-sized vehicles, large vehicles, oversized vehicles) About 96% of the previous year (about 40,000 units/day)
Attachment-1 [PDF: 69KB] - Peak: Out-bound line is Wednesday 13th August, In-bound line is Saturday 16th August
Attachment-2 [PDF: 100KB]
[Number of interchanges used (number of vehicles passing through exit toll gates, etc.)]
- All cars: about 92% of the previous year (about 392,000 units/day)
- Vehicle type
: Small vehicles: about 92% of the previous year (about 349,000 units/day)
: Large vehicles about 98% of the previous year (about 43,000 units/day)
Attachment-3 [PDF: 73KB] - By prefecture [YoY change]
Aomori: About 93% (about 30 thousand units/day), Iwate: About 87% (about 55,000 units/day), Akita: About 88% (about 36,000 units/day), Miyagi: About 95 % (About 114,000 units/day), Yamagata: about 90% (about 59,000 units/day), Fukushima: about 97% (about 98,000 units/day)
Attachment-4 [PDF: 90KB]
2 congestion
- Congestion of 10 km or more on the main line occurred 12 times in the Out-bound direction (3 times from the previous year) and 23 times in the In-bound direction (+8 times from the previous year) for a total of 35 times (+5 times from the previous year).
- The maximum length of traffic congestion on the main line is 31.0 km (-7.6 km compared to the previous year), and the Tohoku Expressway Ohira Interchange (IC)-Ichinoseki on Saturday, August 16 (11:17-22:30, peak time 17:43) It occurred between ICs (In-bound line). This traffic congestion was caused by traffic congestion and the sag area*2 near the Furukawa IC.
- The amount of traffic congestion was approximately 2,006 km/h (1,755 km/h in the previous year), an increase of approximately 10%.
- 1 Congestion extension (km) × congestion time (h) ÷ 2
- 2 Out-bound from the hill In-bound portion of the change in slope
Comparison period
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