Li Weiqing, who works in Beijing, didn’t pay much attention to the news that Spring Festival travel rush Railway will start selling tickets in 2020. Since buying a car, he has chosen to drive home every Spring Festival. He has been running for several years from Beijing to Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, about 500 kilometers of expressway.
"If it goes well, it will take five and a half hours. Once I caught a traffic jam, I got home in nine hours." In Li Weiqing’s view, driving home not only saves the anxiety of grabbing tickets, but also increases the opportunity to chat and talk with parents.
"Because I used to travel a lot in my previous job, it is actually a rare opportunity to communicate with my parents by car in the New Year. Starting from home, bring all the food and drink, and hurry and slow all the way. It is easier to talk and chat. " Li Wei qing said.
With the Spring Festival travel rush train ticket on sale on December 12th, "Spring Festival travel rush in 2020" once again boarded the hot search. Compared with Spring Festival travel rush in 2019, Spring Festival travel rush will be 11 days ahead of schedule in 2020. Therefore, some experts predict that Spring Festival travel rush will see the peak of passenger travel in the early stage, which is the superposition of "work flow", "student flow" and "visiting relatives flow", and "going home" has become a common keyword for many people who work and live outside the home.
Step on the accelerator to the end, and the congestion at the provincial border will be alleviated.
According to big data, during Spring Festival travel rush in 2019, the national railways, highways, waterways and civil aviation sent a total of 2.98 billion passengers, which was basically the same as that in 2018. Among them, the railway sent 410 million passengers, an increase of 7.4%; 2.46 billion passengers were sent by road, down by 0.8%; The waterway sent 41 million passengers, the same as in 2018; Civil aviation sent 73 million passengers, an increase of 12%.
In recent years, the trend of diversification of transportation modes in Spring Festival travel rush has become more and more obvious. Trains, planes, cars, hitchhiking and other ways go hand in hand, which has alleviated the pressure of passenger flow during Spring Festival travel rush to some extent. It is worth mentioning that with the increase of income and the update of travel concept, many people have joined the team of driving home.
According to the consulting data of Ai Media, 47.9% of the netizens surveyed indicated that their willingness to travel by car during Spring Festival travel rush in 2019 was significantly improved.
Some analysts believe that, on the one hand, according to the data of the Ministry of Transport, in 2018, the mileage of new highways in China was 86,000 kilometers, including 6,000 kilometers of expressways and 20,000 kilometers of newly built and rebuilt provincial trunk highways. The highway has been built to the "doorstep", which provides convenience for many self-driving families.
On the other hand, the number of motor vehicles in China continues to increase, and cars are becoming the standard of life for many people, which provides conditions for self-driving travel.
Ai Media Consulting analysts said that people’s living standards have improved and the number of private cars has been continuously improved. At the same time, the country has strengthened highway construction, and the trend of self-driving travel during the Spring Festival is obvious. The diversified combination of roads, railways and aviation has become the general direction of Spring Festival travel rush’s travel structure adjustment.
It is worth mentioning that traffic jams have always been one of the pain points of self-driving in Spring Festival travel rush, and high-speed toll stations are the "hardest hit areas" of congestion. In Spring Festival travel rush this year, this situation will improve.
On December 12th, the Ministry of Transport held a special press conference on "Cancellation of Provincial Toll Stations of Expressway". According to Sun Wenjian, spokesman of the Ministry of Transport, the project of canceling the provincial toll stations of expressways has entered the final stage, and the conditions for canceling the provincial toll stations of expressways nationwide are basically met before the end of the year.
Specifically, in terms of engineering construction, the completion rate of the national highway entrance weighing detection system has reached 100%. On December 16th, the national highway entrance weighing detection will be fully implemented. The completion rate of the main line reconstruction of provincial toll stations reached 93.02%, and the main line reconstruction of the remaining provincial toll stations was completed before December 20 as planned.
Sun Wenjian said that in ETC issuance, as of December 10, the total number of ETC customers nationwide reached 185.4599 million, completing 97.17% of the total issuance tasks; The network communication link test and system function test have been completed, and it is expected that all the work of joint debugging and testing will be completed before December 20.
It is understood that the cancellation of provincial toll stations on expressways is not a cancellation of charges, but a change in charging methods. At the same time of dismantling the provincial toll stations, it is helpful to reduce the transit time of vehicles by technical means to realize fast payment without stopping when driving across provinces.
"After the withdrawal of the station, under normal traffic conditions, the average time for buses to pass through the provincial boundary was reduced from 15 seconds to 2 seconds, a decrease of about 86.7%. The time for trucks to cross provincial boundaries was reduced from 29 seconds to 3 seconds, a decrease of 89.7%. " Sun Wenjian said, "After the provincial toll station of the expressway is cancelled, the people will be truly realized ‘ Step on the accelerator to the end ’ The dream of ".
Customized buses, hitchhiking and other new favorites "internet plus" empower Spring Festival travel rush to go home.
Although Spring Festival travel rush hasn’t officially started, Li Yong’s homecoming WeChat group is already full of excitement. "Between the 10th and 15th, did anyone return to Anhui via Wuxi, Changzhou and Nanjing?" "Looking for someone by train on the 20th, waiting for 2, waiting for 1" & hellip; … Working in Shanghai and his hometown in Huainan, Anhui Province, he continued to pay attention to the information in the group, hoping to get on a bus and go home.
In fact, carpooling home is becoming a new choice for more and more young people in Spring Festival travel rush.
Hellobike’s "Big Data on Travel in the Spring Festival of 2019" shows that during the Spring Festival of 2019, the average carpooling distance of Hello was 126.7 kilometers, the average carpooling time was 143.3 minutes, and the average carpooling cost was 122.6 yuan, so long-distance travel became the main order for hitchhiking.
Among them, the age of hitchhiking passengers is mainly between 24 and 32 years old, and the proportion of post-80 s and post-90 s is 41.1% and 44.9% respectively, and post-90 s becomes the main force of hitchhiking.
Li Yiming, who works in Beijing, is a hitchhiker. Online booking and telephone communication confirmed that during the Spring Festival last year, he took two passengers back to his hometown of Tangshan through a ride platform.
"The two passengers paid a total of more than 300 yuan and shared the fuel and tolls." Li Yiming said, "We also had lunch together at the high-speed service station on the way. It’s my treat, not for anything else. I just think it’s quite warm and I can have a chat companion along the way."
In fact, "internet plus" has brought many changes to Spring Festival travel rush. During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, in order to meet the diversified needs of tourists, customized buses began to enter the market in some places. By combining online and offline, and booking trips in various ways, the customized bus is based on highway passenger transport, which plays a role in connecting railway and air traffic in series.
Ding Yifan, who lives in Hangzhou, told reporters that during her stay in Spring Festival travel rush in 2019, she experienced a customized bus for the first time. On the arrival floor of hangzhou east railway station, find the dedicated service desk of "Spring Festival travel rush Warm Bus". As long as you register your destination, the service staff will match it in time, and "Spring Festival travel rush Warm Bus" will send passengers to the door of the community as far as possible.
"It has not only the routes in the city, but also the custom-made lines for returning home, the special shopping line for the Spring Festival, the bus lines connecting transportation hubs, etc., which saves the trouble of queuing at the train station and solves the last mile of Spring Festival travel rush." Ding Yifan said.
Scan code through the gate, brush your face into the station, and purchase tickets by electronic one-click … … In addition to hitchhiking and customized buses, the empowerment of "internet plus" makes the service in Spring Festival travel rush more intelligent, efficient and convenient, and constantly refreshes the travel experience of passengers. There is reason to believe that in the future, people will travel more and more, and the way home during the Spring Festival will be warmer.
China Youth Daily China Youth Network reporter Cheng Honghe Source: China Youth Daily