Expressway during the Golden Week
Usage status [Tohoku region version]
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- Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
May 9, 2016
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku Regional Head Office
NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is the Expressway in the Tohoku region that we manage during Golden Week [11th April 2016 (Thursday) to 8th May 2016 (Sunday)]. We will inform you about the usage status of.
During this period, the number of vehicles used decreased slightly compared to the previous year, and the number of traffic jams also decreased.
1 Traffic volume and number of passengers
[Average traffic volume on eight sections of the main line]- All cars: About 99% of the previous year (about 27,000 units/day) Attachment-1 [PDF: 70KB]
- Peak: May 3 (Tuesday) for both Out-bound and In-bound lines Attachment-2 [PDF: 90KB]
[Number of interchanges used (number of vehicles passing through exit toll gates, etc.)]
- All cars: About 96% of the previous year (about 368,000 units/day)
- Vehicle type: Small vehicles about 98% of the previous year (about 329,000 units/day)
: Large vehicles about 84% (about 39,000 units/day)
Attachment-3 [PDF: 72KB] - By prefecture [YoY change]
Aomori Prefecture: Approx. 101% (Approximately 288,000 units/day), Iwate Prefecture: Approximately 90% (Approximately 50,000 units/day), Akita Prefecture: Approximately 98% (Approximately 32,000 units/day), Miyagi Prefecture: Approximately 95 % (About 111,000 units/day), Yamagata: about 104% (about 54,000 units/day), Fukushima: about 96% (about 92,000 units/day)
Attachment-4 [PDF:286KB]
2 congestion
- Congestion of 10 km or more on the main line occurred 4 times in the Out-bound direction (2 times compared to the previous year) and 3 times in the In-bound direction (1 time compared to the previous year), a total of 7 times (3 times compared to the previous year).
- The maximum length of congestion on the main line is 22.5 km (+6.5 km compared to the previous year), and on May 3 (Tue) (9:24 to 13:58 peak time 10:55), the Tohoku Expressway Hiraizumi Maesawa IC to Hanamaki Minami IC It occurred in the interval (In-bound line). This traffic jam was caused by the emergency construction and traffic concentration for the accident recovery near Mizusawa IC.
- The amount of traffic congestion (*) was 240 kmh (about 102% of the previous year), which was almost the same as the previous year.
- Congestion extension (km) × congestion time (h) ÷ 2 Note) “IC” is an abbreviation for interchange.
Comparison period
For details, please refer to the attached materials.
Reference materials [PDF: 297KB]
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