Expressway usage during the year-end and New Year holidays
[Tohoku region version]
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- Expressway usage during the year-end and New Year period [Tohoku region version]
January 5, 2015
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is our company during the year-end and New Year period [12th December 2014 (Wednesday) to 4th January 2015 (Sunday)] We will inform you about the usage status of Expressway in the Tohoku region managed by.
During this period, traffic volume decreased compared to last year, but traffic jams occurred due to the accident.
1 Number of units used
[Average traffic volume on 7 cross sections of main line]
- All cars: about 91% of the previous year (about 20 thousand units/day) Attachment-1 [PDF:124KB]
- Peak: Out-bound line is Saturday, December 27, In-bound line is Saturday, January 3 Attachment-2 [PDF: 213KB]
[Number of interchange (IC) users (number of vehicles passing through exit toll gates, etc.)]
- All cars: About 92% of the previous year (about 278,000 units/day)
- Vehicle type
: Small vehicles: approx. 92% year-on-year (approximately 236,000 units/day)
: Large vehicles approximately 93% of the previous year (approximately 42,000 units/day)
Attachment-3 [PDF: 114KB] - By prefecture [YoY change]
Aomori: about 94% (about 20 thousand units/day), Iwate: about 91% (about 39,000 units/day), Akita: about 90% (about 23,000 units/day), Miyagi: about 90 % (About 91,000 units/day), Yamagata: about 91% (about 29,000 units/day), Fukushima: about 98% (about 76,000 units/day) Attachment-4 [PDF: 254KB]
2 congestion
- Congestion of 10 km or more on the main line occurred 3 times (2 times compared to the previous year), 2 times in the Out-bound direction (+1 compared to the previous year) and 1 in the In-bound direction (+1 compared to the previous year).
- The maximum length of congestion on the main line is 12.8 km (+0.8 km compared to the previous year), and it is between Saturday and January 3 (14:02-17:57 peak time 16:44) between the Fukushima Nishi IC and Shiraishi IC on the Tohoku Expressway It occurred in (In-bound line). This traffic jam was caused by an accident on the other side of the road.
- The amount of traffic congestion (*1) was approximately 64km·h (27km·h in the previous year), about 2.4 times.
- Congestion extension (km) × congestion time (h) ÷ 2
Comparison period
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