2019 Spring Festival travel rush curtain opens today. Multi-department linkage will crack down on car troubles.

　　Beijing, Jan 21st (Reporter Zhang Ni): Starting today, the Spring Festival travel rush will be officially opened in 2019. In the next 40 days, the number of passengers sent nationwide is expected to reach 2.99 billion. At the same time, the four major changes in Spring Festival travel rush this year will also make the journey home more comfortable and convenient.

　　It is estimated that 2.99 billion passengers will be sent, and the demand for railway and civil aviation transportation will grow rapidly.

　　According to the data from the National Development and Reform Commission, in 2019, the number of passengers sent by Spring Festival travel rush will reach 2.99 billion, an increase of 0.6% over the previous year in Spring Festival travel rush.

　　Among them, the number of road trips was 2.46 billion, down by 0.8%; 413 million railway passengers, an increase of 8.3%; 73 million passengers in civil aviation, an increase of 12%; 43 million passengers were transported by water, basically the same as last year.

　　On the whole, the growth rate of total passenger traffic has slowed down but the structure has changed, and the demand for railway and civil aviation transportation has maintained rapid growth. Before the holiday, the student flow and the work flow are superimposed on each other, and the peak of passenger flow comes early and lasts for a long time, while the passenger flow after the holiday is relatively flat.

　　In terms of railways, Spring Festival travel rush’s transport capacity will increase by 5.3% this year. Among them, 4,787 pairs of passenger trains were arranged before the festival, an increase of 468 pairs year-on-year, with an average daily transportation capacity of 9.42 million seats, an increase of 5.4%; After the festival, 4,860 pairs of passenger trains were arranged, an increase of 460 pairs compared with the same period of last year, and the average daily transportation capacity was 9.64 million seats, an increase of 5.2%.

　　In terms of civil aviation, in order to avoid congestion and high fares in hot spots, the Civil Aviation Administration has launched pilot projects to extend the running time of domestic flights at 10 hot airports, including Pudong in Shanghai, Shuangliu in Chengdu and Fenghuang in Sanya, which has increased the flexibility of airlines’ overall capacity arrangement. It is expected that 35,000 overtime flights will be arranged during the Spring Festival this year.

　　Data Map: Hulk, a new member of Fuxing family, arrived in Shanghai to start debugging and will be put into operation during its stay in Spring Festival travel rush. Photo by Zhang Hengwei

　　Four New Changes in Spring Festival travel rush in 2019

　　— — New models unveiled to improve ride experience.

　　During Spring Festival travel rush in 2019, the railway department will further optimize the operation organization and open more passenger trains to meet the travel needs of passengers. Among them, the number of "Fuxing" will increase from 291.5 pairs to 400 pairs, and high-speed trains such as Jingha, Beijing-Guangzhou, Shanghai-Kunming and Chongqing-Guizhou will be added at night, and 180 newly purchased EMUs with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour will be put into operation, and many new lines such as Hanghuang and Huaiheng will be opened.

　　In addition, since the implementation of the new train diagram on the 5 th of this month, new members of the "Fuxing" family have met with passengers one after another.

　　On the 5th, 17 grouped super-long "Fuxing" EMUs were officially put into operation on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway. The number of passengers on the EMU is 1,283, and the passenger capacity is increased by 90 people, or 7.5%, compared with the 16 formed trains.

　　In addition, the "Fuxing" EMU, known as the "Hulk" with a speed of 160 kilometers per hour, will also meet with the public.

　　The EMU has two models: short marshalling and long marshalling. The short marshalling consists of 9 cars with a capacity of 720 people, while the long marshalling consists of 11 to 20 cars with a maximum capacity of 1,102 people.

　　Compared with the traditional locomotive traction bus, the driver of this vehicle is more convenient and quick to operate, the passengers are safer and more comfortable to ride, the transportation organization is more efficient, the existing maintenance resources can be fully utilized, and the basic investment and equipment maintenance cost can be reduced.

　　After the "Hulk" is put into operation, some ordinary speed lines will enter the era of moving trains.

　　— — The new line ushered in the first Spring Festival travel rush "final exam"

　　This year, a number of new railway lines will be put into Spring Festival travel rush for the first time.

　　For example, the Jiangzhan Railway and Kunchu Railway, which were opened in July 2018, and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway and Hajia Railway, which were opened in September 2018, will usher in their first "big exam" in Spring Festival travel rush.

　　In addition, 10 new railway lines from Hangzhou to Huangshan, Chengde to Shenyang, Xinmin to Tongliao, Harbin to Mudanjiang, Jinan to Qingdao, Qingdao to Yancheng, Nanping to Longyan, Huaihua to Hengyang, Tongren to Yuping and Chengdu to Ya ‘an, which were opened at the end of 2018, will also serve Spring Festival travel rush passengers for the first time.

　　— — The new service is online to facilitate passengers’ travel.

　　This year, in Spring Festival travel rush, besides the choice of new models and routes, passengers can also enjoy more convenient new services.

　　From December 27, 2018, the railway department selected the long-distance section of the train with a tight capacity in Spring Festival travel rush in 2019 on the website of Railway 12306 and the mobile phone client, and launched the pilot service of standby ticket purchase to further improve the passenger ticket purchase experience.

　　With this service, passengers can submit their ticket purchase requirements by date, train number and seat, and after paying the ticket in advance, the ticketing system will automatically arrange online queuing. When the tickets available for sale are generated for the corresponding trains and seats due to refund or change of tickets, the system will automatically cash the tickets and inform the passengers of the purchase results.

　　In addition, the railway department is still vigorously exploring "paperless" services. Since November 22, 2018, the railway department has implemented an e-ticket service pilot in Hainan’s high-speed rail around the island, making it easier and faster for passengers to purchase tickets, check in tickets and ride.

　　— — New regulations regulate travel order

　　In 2018, people were impressed by the appearance of "bully man" and "bully woman". However, during this year’s Spring Festival travel rush, the implementation of the new regulations will strictly restrict this behavior.

　　Previously, the National Development and Reform Commission and other nine departments issued the Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Spring Festival travel rush in 2019. The "Opinions" pointed out that it is necessary to severely punish serious uncivilized behaviors of passengers such as "car troubles", "machine troubles" and "high-speed rail hegemony" in accordance with the law and maintain a good travel order.

　　The transportation department should strengthen the education and training of drivers and passengers and improve the ability to deal with uncivilized behavior; Encourage passengers to participate in transportation safety, and dare to stop illegal acts of passengers that affect the normal driving of drivers and disturb the safety of public transportation; Cooperate with the public security department to punish suspected illegal and criminal acts according to law.

　　Civil aviation and railway departments should take disciplinary measures to restrict the use of planes and trains within a certain period of time against untrustworthy people who seriously disrupt the transportation order and endanger the transportation safety according to laws and regulations.

　　The Opinions on Appropriately Restricting Certain Serious Untrustworthy Persons to Take Civil Aircraft to Promote the Construction of Social Credit System, which was implemented in May 2018, also made it clear that nine types of serious "airplane-troubled" passengers, such as seizing seats on the plane, impacting the apron, fabricating false terror information about flight safety and fighting on the plane, will be "banned from flying" for one year. (End)