Passenger flow out of Beijing will peak 2-3 days before the Chinese New Year festival Traffic areas do not check passengers’ negative nucleic acid certificates and health codes
The reporter learned from the Municipal Transportation Commission that the 2023 Spring Festival begins on January 7, 2023 (the sixteenth day of the lunar month) and ends on February 15 (the twenty-fifth day of the first month), a total of 40 days.
This year’s Spring Festival is in the epidemic prevention and control optimization and adjustment of the transitional period, it is expected that travel demand will be released. According to the forecast, the total number of railroads, civil aviation, inter-provincial passenger transport to and from Beijing 25.36 million passengers, an average of 630,000 passengers per day; 1.8 million vehicles per day on the highway. The average daily passenger volume of public transportation in the city is 11.03 million. Due to the impact of the epidemic, the flow of workers and students is characterized by staggered batches, leaving Beijing one after another to return home before the Spring Festival, and starting to return to school and work after the Spring Festival. Tourism flow is limited by the impact of the epidemic infection period. The family visit flow is still the main stream, which is expected to start to leave Beijing one after another before the Spring Festival holiday and return to Beijing after the holiday. It is expected that 2-3 days before the festival will usher in the peak of outbound passenger flow, and around the seventh day of the first month and the fifteenth day of the first month will usher in two peaks of return passenger flow to Beijing, with 800,000 passenger trips in and out of Beijing, and the peak of highway traffic volume will appear on February 10, reaching 2.05 million vehicles.
Beijing strictly implemented the measures of optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention and control, and carefully implemented the policies of epidemic prevention and control in the fields of railroad, highway, civil aviation and postal express. No more checking negative nucleic acid test certificates and health codes for passengers, no more landing checks, and no more implementation of passenger temperature testing.
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