Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
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- Expressway usage during the Golden Week [Tohoku region version]
May 7, 2018
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Tohoku office
NEXCO EAST Tohoku Regional Head Office (Aoba Ward, Sendai City) is a Tohoku Expressway managed by the Company during Golden Week [Friday, April 27, 2018-Sunday, May 6, 2018] We will inform you about the usage status of.
Compared to the previous year, the traffic volume during the period was about the same, and the congestion over 10 km decreased 5 times.
1 traffic volume Attachment-1 [PDF: 200KB] Attachment-2 [PDF: 227KB]
- The average daily traffic volume for the 16 representative sections of the Tohoku Regional Head Office was about 99% (about 26 thousand vehicles / day) compared to the previous year.
- The peak traffic volume was on the Out-bound line on Thursday, May 3 and on the In-bound line on Saturday, May 5.
2 congestion Attachment-3 [PDF: 446KB]
- Congestion times of 10km or more occurred 4 times (5 times compared to the previous year), 1 for the Out-bound direction (-4 times compared to the previous year) and 3 times for the In-bound direction (-1 time compared to the previous year).
- Congestion over 5km occurred 19 times (+2 times from the previous year), 9 times in the Out-bound direction (± 0 times from the previous year) and 10 times in the In-bound direction (+2 times from the previous year).
- The maximum length of traffic jam is around 12:10 on Thursday, May 3rd, E4 Tohoku Expressway (In-bound line) It was 17.5km that occurred near the Fukushima tunnel. This traffic jam was caused by a broken car and traffic concentration.
Congestion status
[Number of traffic jams]
![Image of actual traffic count [Out-bound]](/rest/pressroom/press_release/tohoku/h30/0507b/images/02.jpg)
![Image of actual traffic count [Climbing line]](/rest/pressroom/press_release/tohoku/h30/0507b/images/03.jpg)
For details, please refer to the attached materials.
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