On January 26th, 2024, Spring Festival travel rush will be officially opened. It is estimated that the number of passengers sent by Spring Festival travel rush and Guangdong Province will reach 127 million this year, which is about 25% higher than that in 2023. Compared with previous years, roads, railways, civil aviation and water transportation will increase greatly. Compared with previous years, what features will Spring Festival travel rush present this year? What are the highlights?
Yesterday, Yang Xu, member and deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Communications Department, Pan Jian, assistant general manager and operation director of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Co., Ltd., and Peng Xiang, chief engineer of the passenger transport department of China Railway Guangzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd. all boarded the special program of Guangdong Minsheng Hotline in Spring Festival travel rush in 2024-"Happy New Year in Spring Festival travel rush, Guangdong" to introduce the relevant situation and service information of various points in Spring Festival travel rush. The program is jointly sponsored by the CPC directly under the authority Working Committee and Guangdong Radio and Television Station.
Counting Spring Festival travel rush: It is estimated that the province will send 127 million people.
Yang Xu introduced that after research, Spring Festival travel rush will present the following characteristics this year: First, the passenger flow will continue to increase, and the people’s willingness to travel is relatively strong. Second, there will be some changes in the way passengers travel, specifically, "three increases and one decrease"-the proportion of passenger traffic transported by railway, civil aviation and water transport will increase, and the proportion of road passenger traffic will decrease compared with previous years. Third, the weather will have a great impact on travel this year. There will be obvious precipitation process and cold wave in the early and late stages of Spring Festival travel rush, which may have some impact on Spring Festival travel rush.
In terms of railways, Guangzhou Railway Spring Festival travel rush is expected to send 72.5 million passengers in 40 days, with an average of 1.813 million passengers per day, up 33.2% year-on-year and 16.8% higher than the same period in 2019. Among them, Guangdong Province is expected to send 46.8 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 39.6%. It is estimated that the peak before the festival will be on February 3 (year 24), and it is estimated that 2.42 million passengers will be sent; The peak after the holiday is expected to be February 17 (the eighth day of the year), and it is expected to send 2.3 million passengers.
This year, Spring Festival travel rush is the first Spring Festival travel rush since the opening of Guangzhou Baiyun Station. Guangzhou Baiyun Station is expected to send 600,000 passengers before the Spring Festival travel rush Festival, with an average of 40,000 passengers per day. During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, 103 scheduled trains will be operated, 14 ordinary passenger trains will be operated, and 20 night EMU trains will be opened in Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Xiangyang and Xinyang. "In order to facilitate passengers to transfer, we also arranged six trains from Guangzhou Baiyun to Shenzhen after the holiday to meet passengers’ more travel needs in a long and short way." Peng Xiang said.
Spring Festival travel rush Baiyun Airport will send 60,400 flights in 40 days, with a passenger throughput of 9,198,700 passengers, up by 10.74% and 10.24% respectively compared with Spring Festival travel rush in 2019, setting a new record. It is estimated that the peak period before the festival will be 28 years old, with about 230,000 passengers transported. The post-holiday peak period is expected to be on February 17th (the eighth day of the Lunar New Year), and about 260,000 passengers will be transported.
In terms of road passenger transport, the province has invested 32,000 vehicles with 1.26 million seats. In terms of waterway transportation, there are 390 passenger ships on 96 routes in the province, about 1,300 shuttle buses on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and 270 voyages on the Qiongzhou Strait ferry every day.
Ping An Spring Festival travel rush: The liquid will pass the security check and no longer use the trial drink.
Every year in Spring Festival travel rush, "safety" is always the highest goal pursued by transportation. Yang Xu said that in order to ensure the safety of passengers, the transportation system will intensify its work and go all out to ensure safety. In view of the illegal operation, overload, overrun and "scalpers" in high-speed railway station and airport hubs, the transportation department will crack down on illegal passenger behavior together with the public security department to ensure the smooth travel of passengers. For bad weather and vehicle accidents, the transportation department should make emergency preparations and safeguard plans, implement the responsibilities of three parties along the way, and increase the rapid rescue and repair of vehicles. The transportation department has sent a working group to conduct a safety inspection of road transport enterprises to ensure strict compliance with road transport safety regulations and ensure that transport vehicles carry passengers on the road without faults.
Guangzhou Railway Group has greatly strengthened the security inspection equipment, and nearly 100 liquid security inspection instruments have been added in the pipeline, so that passengers can pass the security inspection without trying to drink when the liquid passes the security inspection; Intelligent mapping equipment has also been added to prevent dangerous goods from entering the station, and the security inspection efficiency has been further improved. It is worth mentioning that the Guangzhou Railway has also strengthened the free charging service for passengers. 145 stations that send more than 1,000 passengers a day have added free charging stations, and each charging station can satisfy five passengers at the same time. Charging devices have also been added to the trains, and power panels have been added to the washing table of high-speed trains. Each train of ordinary speed trains is equipped with at least two charging treasures to meet the emergency use of passengers when their mobile phones are out of power along the way.
Baiyun Airport has carried out comprehensive inspection and maintenance of luggage equipment, security inspection channel equipment, passenger boarding bridge, car ferry and ladder truck to ensure safe and good condition; We have formulated emergency plans to deal with various emergencies, including public transportation, public safety and special aircraft events, and have done a lot of emergency drills.
Smooth Spring Festival travel rush: Passengers can arrive at the airport five minutes late.
In order to ensure the smooth transportation in Spring Festival travel rush, Yang Xu introduced that the Provincial Department of Transportation, as the lead department of Spring Festival travel rush, established and strengthened the coordination and liaison mechanism with relevant units, and also strengthened communication and coordination with neighboring provinces, strengthened information exchange and interaction, and timely notified and coordinated. All front-line staff and leading cadres will stick to their posts, master the situation of Spring Festival travel rush as a whole, and deal with any abnormal situation in time.
Peng Xiang introduced that the peak period before the railway trip is generally from 23 to 28, and Guangzhou Railway will operate the "red-eye high-speed train" overnight in these six days, mainly in Hubei, Henan, Sichuan, Chongqing and Jiangxi. After the festival, there will also be overnight trains to Guangzhou and Shenzhen. At the same time, the railway department strengthens the docking and contact with local transportation departments to ensure the transportation connection of passengers arriving at night, including extending the subway operation time, adding night bus and network car, etc., to ensure that passengers can get through the "last mile" to go home.
Baiyun Airport is the first in China to implement the procedure of taking off from the runway on the same side this year, which reduces the taxiing time on the ground, the waiting time at the runway head and the flying time in the air. According to statistics, the average taxiing and waiting time of each flight departing from Hong Kong is reduced by two and a half minutes compared with that before the implementation of the procedures. Baiyun Airport has also taken the lead in shortening the interception time from 45 minutes to 40 minutes, which means that the service and security departments of the airport have compressed their own guarantee time and left five more minutes for passengers. Passengers can arrive at the airport five minutes later than before and travel will be smoother. In addition, Baiyun Airport has increased the express flights between hot cities. "For example, we have more than 18 check-in counters for fixed flights in Beijing every day, with boarding gates and security checkpoints for fixed flights, which can give express passengers a more convenient and smoother travel experience." Pan Jian said.
Warm-hearted Spring Festival travel rush: Five New Functions of 12306 Online.
In order to cope with the Spring Festival travel rush exam in 2024, airports, railways and other departments have made significant service improvements.
Facing passengers who need help, such as the elderly and those with babies in their arms, Baiyun Airport will put a "love sticker" on them, which can give priority to check-in and security inspection. Baiyun Airport also implements the "wheelchair door-to-door" service, from the door to the hatch, to ensure that wheelchair passengers have full escort. It is worth mentioning that Baiyun Airport also launched the first pet toilet in China last year, and on January 22 this year, it officially opened the "Love Pet Station" to provide a warm and loving pet consignment environment for passengers carrying pets. Pan Jian also introduced that Baiyun Airport has built a number of the Year of the Loong-themed punch-in points this year, and also set up the Year of the Loong Flower Market Landscape in the departure hall on the 3rd floor of T1 Terminal, where passengers can buy flowers, handicrafts and so on. There is also a Chinese rose exhibition garden on the roof of the P8 parking lot in T2, where passengers can watch nearly 26 varieties of Chinese rose when they are free.
This year, the railway department in Spring Festival travel rush has strengthened its technical strength to tackle key problems. Many functions of the 12306 website have been optimized, and many new intimate and warm-hearted functions have been introduced. First, the alarm clock function, the pre-sale period of train tickets is 15 days. Once it enters the pre-sale period, this function will prompt passengers and friends to buy tickets. The second is the reservation function. After the train ticket is selected according to the travel demand outside the pre-sale period, it can be put into the reservation function, just like putting the goods in the shopping cart on the e-commerce platform. After entering the pre-sale period, the travel demand can be "lifted" in seconds. The third is the expansion of standby demand. In the past, standby ticket purchase was five combinations of two time periods. After the function expansion, passengers can choose three more time periods and choose 60 tickets with different combinations. Peng Xiang said that the standby demand submitted by the majority of passengers in 12306 is actually an effective reference for the railway department to add trains. If it is found that there is a great demand for standby in a certain direction at a certain time, the railway department can adjust the capacity in time, so it is advocated that the majority of passengers can use the standby function as much as possible. The fourth is to get a car in advance. If passengers choose this function when submitting a standby order, the railway can give priority to this part of passengers when temporarily adding trains. The fifth is the reservation function for students and migrant workers. They can submit their ticket purchase requirements in advance outside the pre-sale period, and once they are sold, they can give priority to meeting them.
The reunion of compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao in the Mainland is a characteristic of Spring Festival travel rush, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. With the implementation of policies such as "Australian cars going north" and "Hong Kong cars going north", the traffic volume of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has continued to grow, hitting record highs. By the middle of this month, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has released 1.5 million single-brand vehicles from Hong Kong and Macao. In order to ensure that Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong travel by car during the Spring Festival of 2024, and ensure the smooth and orderly passage of vehicles at bridges and ports, all parties concerned will strengthen human resources protection, optimize mechanisms, and strengthen pre-plan drills, and all gates will be fully opened to improve traffic efficiency.
"With the efforts of governments at all levels, industry authorities and all cadres and workers in the transportation industry, this year’s Spring Festival travel rush will certainly be able to achieve the goal of’ safe Spring Festival travel rush, smooth Spring Festival travel rush and warm-hearted Spring Festival travel rush’ proposed by the provincial party Committee and government." Yang Xu said.
Text/Guangzhou Daily Xinhua City reporter Huang Qing
Figure/Guangzhou Daily Xinhua City reporter Chen Youzi
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