Epidemic prevention traffic control cannot be simplified
The reporter learned from the Special Class for the Spring Festival Work of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council that on the first day of the Spring Festival, 24.848 million passengers were sent nationwide, of which 18.62 million were on highways, accounting for the first place. The traffic of 500 important channel nodes on 70 highways monitored by the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security shows that the traffic on the first day of the Spring Festival increased by 22% compared with the same period of the Spring Festival in 2021. The national highway and the national and provincial trunk lines are in good order, and no long-term and large-scale traffic congestion has occurred.
During the Spring Festival, the flow and gathering of people increased significantly, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control was grim. As the main force of the Spring Festival, the road transport department has adopted a series of safeguard measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic through the transportation link, but also to do a good job in the emergency support of transportation, and to create a good atmosphere of scientific anti-epidemic and healthy Spring Festival.
On the one hand, strengthen the epidemic response. The Ministry of Transport will guide the competent departments of transportation in medium- and high-risk areas to suspend inter-provincial and inter-city road passenger shuttles and chartered buses in a timely manner, timely suspend cross-city passenger transport services such as buses, cruise taxis, online ride-hailing cars, and hitchhiking, and do a good job in releasing relevant information and refunding tickets.
In terms of normalizing epidemic prevention and control, we will guide all localities to supervise and urge passenger transport and passenger terminal operators to carry out ventilation and disinfection in accordance with regulations, strictly check passenger health codes, carry out body temperature detection, and remind passengers to wear masks throughout the process. In terms of emergency prevention and control emergency preparedness, guide all localities to improve emergency response plans and carefully carry out various service guarantee work.
On the other hand, do a good job in transport organization to ensure the safe and smooth arrival of passengers during the Spring Festival. "Epidemic prevention and control must not be simplified and 'one size fits all'." Zhou Min, deputy director of the Emergency Office of the Ministry of Transport, said that it is necessary to implement it layer by layer, rather than increasing the number of layers, and cannot affect the transportation of various key materials and the people's lives.
During the Spring Festival, under the premise of doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, the competent highway departments optimized the allocation of transport capacity, increased the capacity investment and emergency scheduling in key areas, strengthened the connection between trunk line transportation and urban transportation, and organized the intermodal transportation of passengers, especially the evacuation of passengers arriving at night, to avoid passenger detention.
In the face of possible peak hours and key road sections, the competent highway departments will strengthen the dynamic monitoring of road network operation and release road condition information in a timely manner. Strengthen the operation monitoring and maintenance of highway toll lanes, improve the ability to deal with abnormal situations, and avoid congestion. (Economic Daily-China Economic Network reporter Qi Hui)
Some passenger train fares can be as low as 20%.
On January 17, the railway sent 5.082 million passengers, and the lines and stations operated smoothly and orderly. According to the person in charge of the passenger transport department of the State Railway Group, the Spring Festival can provide more than 10.5 million passenger seats per day, an increase of more than 10% over 2019, which can meet the travel needs of the majority of passengers. Therefore, the focus of this year's Spring Festival guarantee is on epidemic prevention and control and precise delivery capacity.
According to reports, during the Spring Festival, the railway department will more accurately implement the "one-day-one-map" according to the changes in passenger flow and ticket pre-sale, dynamically arrange the delivery of transportation capacity and the operation of passenger cars, and fully meet the dual needs of ensuring passenger travel and epidemic prevention and control. If there is an epidemic in a local area, the transportation organization will be quickly adjusted, and passenger trains in the epidemic-related areas will be suspended and reduced to reduce the flow of people.
In order to ensure the travel of key groups, this year's Spring Festival State Railway Group will still run a special train "point-to-point" to provide service guarantee for the travel of students and migrant workers. The State Railway Group also actively uses the big data of the 12306 website to accurately analyze the travel needs of students and migrant workers, establish a communication and liaison mechanism with local governments, universities and employing enterprises, and organize "point-to-point" special trains or "chartered carriages" transportation.
In addition, the State Railways also promotes contactless services, increases the number of self-service equipment at stations, optimizes the layout of self-service equipment, guides passengers to use self-service, and increases the green channel for entering the station; it is recommended to use the Internet to order food, train WeChat to order food, and deliver food to the seats of the carriage to minimize the risk of cross-infection of the epidemic.
In order to facilitate the elderly, off-grid people and key groups in need of special services to buy tickets, the State Railway Group has continued to improve the barrier-free service level of the 12306 website and mobile phone clients such as aging, and the elderly have priority in accepting when they dial the 12306 customer service telephone; offline improve the service function of the love channel for key passengers, and do a good job in key passenger service work; continue to retain manual ticketing, telephone booking, cash ticketing and other service methods to ensure that people off-grid are convenient to purchase tickets.
Travel is not only convenient, but also cheaper. During the Spring Festival this year, the State Railway Group expanded the scope and intensity of fare concessions, preferential trains covering forward and reverse, EMU and Pusu, Tuding and Linke, EMU trains continued to have a minimum 5.5% discount, and Pusu passenger trains implemented a minimum 20% discount, and continued to implement a differentiated fare preferential strategy. During the Spring Festival, it will continue to maintain the scale of public welfare "slow train" and will not arrange for suspension. (Economic Daily-China Economic Network reporter Qi Hui)
Guide idle international shipping capacity to transfer to China
Recently, at Lhasa Gonggar Airport, passengers walked out of Tibet Airlines Flight TV9850. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Rufeng
Before and after the Spring Festival holiday and after the Lantern Festival, the peak of civil aviation passenger travel will be ushered in, and the Civil Aviation Administration of China has set up a leading institution for the Spring Festival work to make specific work arrangements for the civil aviation units during the Spring Festival in terms of organizational leadership, epidemic prevention and control, capacity guarantee and Spring Festival duty.
In order to meet the passenger demand of hot spots and hot routes during the Spring Festival, the Civil Aviation Administration of China actively guides airlines to transfer idle capacity and time resources of the original international routes to domestic routes, and at the same time relaxes the overtime assessment requirements for domestic routes during the Spring Festival, and encourages airlines to allocate capacity more flexibly. Xu Qing, deputy director of the Transportation Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, introduced at a regular press conference held by the Civil Aviation Administration of China recently that more than 600,000 domestic passenger flights have been arranged during the Spring Festival, and more than 20,000 overtime flights have been approved for domestic routes to ensure the travel needs of passengers.
It is understood that the Civil Aviation Administration has issued the "Notice on Conscientiously Doing a Good Job in the 2022 Civil Aviation Spring Festival Work", proposing that airlines should closely track the occasional epidemic situation in some parts of the country, cooperate with the prevention and control requirements to do a good job in ticket refund and change services, and all airports should strengthen docking and cooperation with local Spring Festival institutions, do a good job in smoothly connecting the arrival and departure of passenger traffic, and do a good job in passenger service under abnormal flight conditions.
During the Spring Festival, Air China reasonably matched resources such as routes, flights, aircraft types, and time slots, flexibly allocated transportation capacity, strengthened flight operation control, and made every effort to ensure the safe, stable and smooth operation of Spring Festival flights. China Eastern Airlines coordinates epidemic prevention and control, transportation support for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Spring Festival, focusing on passenger demand in hot areas and hot routes during the Spring Festival.
China Southern Airlines Group is coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic and the Guarantee of the Spring Festival, and is expected to carry out about 110,000 flights, with an average daily flight volume of more than 2,700 flights. In order to meet the travel needs of passengers, China Southern Airlines Group plans to increase capacity investment in popular markets, planning to increase flights by about 11,023 flights.
During the Spring Festival, Beijing Daxing International Airport is expected to perform about 24,000 flights, with an average of about 596 flights per day, and is expected to complete a passenger throughput of about 2.8 million passengers, with an average daily passenger throughput of about 70,000 passengers. (Economic Daily-China Economic Network reporter Cui Guoqiang)
Source: Economic Daily