Spring Festival travel rush increasingly highlights the steaming and vitality of China.

40 days! 9 billion people! Today, 2024 Spring Festival travel rush kicked off.

Nowadays, the smooth traffic has made the distance no longer far away, but how to make everyone arrive safely, conveniently and comfortably still requires the national transportation industry to go all out. When hundreds of millions of people set foot on the journey, the transportation capacity will be guaranteed and the travel will be faster; A little more service will make the journey warmer.

According to the deployment requirements of the State Council, the Ministry of Transport took the lead in setting up a special class for comprehensive transportation in Spring Festival travel rush, and successively issued a number of policy documents such as the overall plan for service guarantee and safety production of comprehensive transportation in Spring Festival travel rush in 2024, deploying the whole industry with the greatest capacity, the most practical measures, the best state and the best service, making every effort to organize, coordinate and ensure the service guarantee in Spring Festival travel rush, better adapting to the new characteristics of public travel structure changes, effectively coping with the impact of extreme weather such as low temperature, rain, snow and freezing, and making every effort to ensure people’s safe, convenient and warm travel and smooth transportation and logistics.

During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the passenger volume of traditional commercial transport, including railway, highway, civil aviation and waterway passenger transport, is estimated to be 1.8 billion passengers. Local transportation departments will dynamically judge the changing trend of passenger flow, strengthen organizational scheduling and dynamically allocate transportation capacity in accordance with the principles of full preparation, on-demand investment and timely response, and effectively enhance the flexibility and resilience of transportation organizations.

It is very important to connect various modes of transport. The seamless connection of air-rail combined transport and Komba combined transport will greatly improve the level of passenger transfer convenience. All localities should give full play to the advantages of comprehensive transportation, strengthen the transportation capacity of railway stations, bus stations, port passenger stations, airports and other key places, do a good job in information sharing and effective connection between urban and rural passenger transport and trunk transport modes, and smooth the "first and last mile" of passenger travel.

In addition to the substantial increase in passenger flow, structural changes are also a new test. This year, self-driving travel in Spring Festival travel rush will reach a record high, and it is expected to reach 80% of the total number of trips. Faced with the huge traffic flow and the pressure of road network, there is a huge pressure to unblock and keep traffic smooth in various places, and it is necessary to take diversified measures to deal with structural changes, including improving emergency measures, enhancing emergency response capabilities, and implementing detailed supporting services.

The biggest pain point of self-driving travel is traffic jam. The Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Security put forward "eight measures" to ensure road travel during major holidays. All localities and departments should strengthen the guidance of congested road sections, improve the traffic capacity of toll stations, optimize services such as obstacle clearing and rescue, and release road network and passenger rolling routes information in a timely and multi-channel manner to provide "accompanying" services to the public. It is necessary to strengthen the operation and management of expressway service areas to meet the needs of self-driving passengers such as parking, charging, refueling and dining. On the basis of ensuring smooth traffic, we should make full use of information technology to strengthen the monitoring and scheduling of expressway network operation, and promote the operation of a network, intelligent management and control, hierarchical scheduling, real-time guidance, efficient rush and safe management to ensure safe, smooth and orderly highway traffic.

Change is both a test and an opportunity. It can be predicted that the surge in the number of self-driving travelers will give birth to a fiery tourism market. On the one hand, local transportation departments need to strengthen the docking with cultural tourism departments, strengthen the sharing of information such as passenger flow scale and travel mode in key tourist areas and scenic spots, guide road passenger transport operators and urban passenger transport operators to operate special tourist lines, through trains and customized passenger transport lines, and guide car rental enterprises to increase the delivery of leased vehicles, strengthen operation and maintenance scheduling, and provide high-quality and accurate service guarantee. On the other hand, all localities can take this opportunity to give full play to the role of the cultural display window of the service area, polish the new business card of making friends and traveling with warm-hearted service and regional characteristics, and turn passenger flow into "guest retention".

Looking at the national comprehensive transportation network, the total mileage has exceeded 6 million kilometers, and the beautiful vision of "people enjoy their travel and things flow smoothly" is accelerating. However, when we focus on every car and every waiting hall, we will still find some problems, such as whether it is convenient to transfer, whether the environment is clean and tidy, and whether emergency supplies are sufficient … When we strive to achieve more transportation and faster running, we must provide better service. Local transportation departments still need to constantly innovate, optimize and upgrade the service hardware and software to enhance the passenger travel experience, such as optimizing and improving the ticketing function to ensure the travel of key groups; Increase convenient transfer service to facilitate passengers’ transit; Provide targeted care services for key groups such as the elderly, the sick, the disabled and the pregnant. At the same time, don’t ignore the thousands of traffic people who stick to the front line in Spring Festival travel rush, give them more understanding and care, and make the hearts of service providers and devotees warm.

Thousands of miles to return home, peace is the way home. The realization of "Safe Spring Festival travel rush" requires the joint efforts of the whole society. The local transportation departments should put the word "strict" throughout, strictly carry out safety supervision and inspection, strictly investigate and rectify potential safety hazards, strictly implement safety tips and reminders, and strictly handle emergencies, so that the people can have a beautiful, happy, safe and warm Spring Festival.

The transportation capacity is more abundant, the transportation organization is more efficient, the service guarantee is better, and people’s travel has changed from "walking well" to "walking well". Spring Festival travel rush, a unique flowing landscape in China, will also show the steaming and vitality of China.