Spring Festival travel rush opened in 2024, and Shenzhen took many measures to escort passengers home.

Spring Festival travel rush officially started on January 26th and ended on March 5th, 2024, with a total of 40 days. Work flow, student flow, family visit flow and tourism flow are superimposed at a high level. Shenzhen’s transportation departments have taken various measures to make all the preparations to provide a safe and convenient Spring Festival travel rush for the tourists.

On the morning of January 25th, the reporter came to Shenzhen North Railway Station to see that the passenger flow increased significantly compared with usual, and the passengers took big bags and small boxes and set foot on the way home during the Spring Festival.

Wang Rui, the stationmaster on duty at Shenzhen North Station, said that the number of students on holiday had started to rise a week ago. At present, the ticket sales in Spring Festival travel rush are booming, and the popular departure directions in Shenzhen are: Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Henan, Beijing, and western Guangdong (Zhanjiang, Maoming), and the tickets are basically sold out.

In order to ensure the safety of passengers during their stay in Spring Festival travel rush, Shenzhen North Railway Station will set up a temporary medical point in the waiting room from 26th, and arrange a special person in the ticket office to help passengers handle business quickly. In addition, during the period of Spring Festival travel rush, Shenzhen North Station will also open night trains according to the passenger flow demand.

In terms of aviation, at Shenzhen Baoan International Airport, many airlines have opened unaccompanied children’s services, realizing seamless connection between air and ground in check-in, waiting, boarding, pick-up and baggage claim.

At Futian Port, the reporter saw that the iron horse was prepared in advance to ensure the safety of passengers. According to Chen Yuanqiang, a third-level researcher at the Customs Clearance Management Office of Shenzhen Port Office, the passenger flow at Futian Port in Spring Festival travel rush is expected to be around 160,000 on the first day, with more inbound passengers, accounting for 60% to 70%.

According to the judgment of the traffic police department, the number of vehicles traveling in Spring Festival travel rush increased significantly compared with previous years, and the number of vehicles traveling in depth was basically the same as last year. It is expected that the peak of pre-holiday travel will appear from February 3 to 8.

Rapid recovery of passenger flow

The reverse Spring Festival travel rush characteristic is obvious.

According to the statistics of Shenzhen Municipal Transportation Bureau, it is estimated that the number of passengers sent by Shenzhen this year will reach about 13 million, up 15.3% year-on-year, of which 8.93 million passengers will be sent by railway, up 12% year-on-year; Civil aviation sent 3.35 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 31.5%; Highway and waterway sent 335,000 and 330,000 passengers respectively, down 26.2% and up 29.2% respectively.

This year, the passenger flow in Spring Festival travel rush has increased significantly year-on-year. It is expected that the pre-holiday travel peak will occur from February 3 to February 8 (the 24th to 29th of the twelfth lunar month).

　

Personalized modes of travel, such as private cars, online car-sharing, and inter-city carpooling, are becoming more and more common. The proportion of passenger traffic in civil aviation, railway and waterway transportation has increased significantly, while the proportion of passenger traffic in road transportation has dropped significantly.

At the same time, citizens’ travel habits have changed greatly, and the amount of car trips is expected to remain high.

This year’s Spring Festival holiday is long. It is expected that there will be many people from Hong Kong residents and the mainland coming to spend the holidays, shopping and traveling, and the demand for public transportation in the city will increase significantly compared with previous years.

Strengthen support and guarantee

Meet the travel needs of passengers

Facing the peak passenger flow during Spring Festival travel rush, Shenzhen Transportation Department strengthened transportation organization, continuously expanded transportation capacity, and fully met the travel needs of passengers.

Intercity travel

Spring Festival travel rush’s railway transportation capacity puts in 694 pairs of trains every day, including 611 pairs of high-speed trains and 83 pairs of ordinary railways;

The daily average number of take-off and landing flights at Shenzhen Airport is nearly 1,100;

The city is expected to invest 5,500 buses of various types, with more than 240,000 seats.

The Shenzhen-Hong Kong shuttle bus scheme will run about 900 times a day to and from Hong Kong during its stay in Spring Festival travel rush;

18 waterway passenger routes plan to invest 88 ships with 18,000 seats;

The city road network has been further optimized and improved. The total mileage of expressways is nearly 400 kilometers, and there are 8 expressways out of the city. It is expected that the proportion of self-driving passengers will continue to increase during Spring Festival travel rush.

In terms of urban traffic

As for the subway, the operation hours of the whole network of rail transit will be extended four days before the festival (from 26th to 29th of the twelfth lunar month) and five days after the festival (from 6th to 10th of the first month), and the operation hours will be extended for the next seven days (from 11th to 17th of the first month) on key lines connecting with airports and railway stations.

In terms of public transportation, the service hours of 12 bus lines connected to the subway will be extended, 16 holiday special lines for tourist attractions will be opened, and the service hours of 26 bus lines at hubs and ports will be extended, and 200 emergency transport capacity will be reserved in key areas and hubs;

In terms of rental, the passenger flow in major scenic spots, transportation hubs, ports and other key areas in the city is monitored 24 hours a day, and the taxi capacity is guided and dispatched in time. Eleven enterprises are arranged to reserve a total of 1,100 cruise taxis as the city’s emergency capacity, and 50,000 network taxis in the city operate normally to ensure the personalized travel needs of citizens.

Improve the service quality of Spring Festival travel rush.

Improve citizens’ travel experience

In order to ensure that passengers can enjoy better service quality during their stay in Spring Festival travel rush, the municipal transportation department actively carries out joint transportation services such as public rail and air rail, and promotes the optimization of security inspection procedures for railways and subways. By optimizing the ticketing organization, expanding the online ticketing scope, promoting the application of e-tickets, and opening ticketing windows, self-service terminals and security inspection channels in time, passenger travel efficiency is improved.

Strictly implement the protection of the travel rights and interests of special groups such as mothers and babies, old and young, sick and pregnant. For example, we will set up a love channel, a mother-infant breastfeeding area, and a waiting area for sick and pregnant passengers of all ages, and open up a "green channel" for passengers in need, providing services such as wheelchair reservation and getting on and off.

(Source: Shenzhen Transportation)

Give full play to the role of "cars, boats, airplanes, roads, ports, stations" and other service guarantee windows in Spring Festival travel rush, and dynamically release Spring Festival travel rush information such as traffic conditions, weather conditions, passenger flow trends, congested sections, and diversions, so as to guide the masses to make reasonable arrangements for travel.

In order to ensure the safety of Spring Festival travel rush, the transportation department has further improved the emergency plans for safety, fire fighting, transportation capacity, bad weather and epidemic diseases, and set up 66 extended waiting emergency points around 15 key passenger stations in the city, which can accommodate more than 140,000 emergency passengers at the same time.

At the same time, reserve 600 emergency buses and 600 emergency drivers to ensure that they are on standby at any time in emergencies.

Reporter/Wang Yafeng Yang Ming

Part of the source/Shenzhen traffic

Source: WeChat WeChat official account "Shenzhen Satellite TV Shenshi News"

The original title is "Spring Festival travel rush is about to open, and Shenzhen has taken many measures to escort passengers home"