On January 17, He Jianzhong, member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Transport and the Director of the Department of Policy and Regulations, and a spokesman for the press, stated at a regular press conference that the transportation and transportation during the Spring Festival season has been basically ready and transportation departments at all levels will fully optimize the transport organization. , ensure the transport capacity, do a good job in the small passenger car free traffic during the Spring Festival and the 20th start of long-distance passenger transport transport pilot work, do our utmost to provide safe transportation services for the majority of passengers to return home safely during the new year.

The characteristics of passenger flow during the Spring Festival in 2013 mainly include three aspects. First, the short- and medium-distance passenger traffic will have a significant increase. With the accelerating rate of economic development in inland provinces, and the adjustment and shift in industrial structure, migrant workers have chosen to work nearby, and the number of migrant workers between inland provinces and neighboring regions will increase significantly. Second, the number of passengers in rural areas will increase significantly. This has benefited from the continuous increase in the rate of rural roads and passenger bus connections, the gradual acceleration of the integration of urban and rural passenger transport, the continuous development of road passenger transport in rural areas, the continuous expansion of coverage, and the gradual enhancement of service capabilities. Third, the passenger transportation between the islands and the Straits is still a hot water passenger transportation area during the Spring Festival. He Jianzhong stated that the transportation department will adjust the density of flights according to changes in passenger flow, and promptly perform emergency dredging work for passengers stranded under sudden passenger flow and bad weather conditions. At the same time, it will try to do a good job in connection with transportation, give full play to the advantages of comprehensive transportation, and make it more convenient for passengers to transfer and provide convenience for passengers to travel.

In response to the theme of “Peaceful Spring Transportation,” transportation authorities at all levels will focus on strengthening the management of passenger trains, make good use of long-distance passenger transport pilots, and earnestly fulfill the requirements for monitoring the source of “three non-stop” and “six outbound” passenger terminals. Supervise the passenger transport enterprises to earnestly implement the safety notification system and intensify the investigation of hidden dangers. In terms of water passenger transportation, on-site supervision of key areas and key ships will be intensified, safety inspections at waterway passenger stations including passenger terminals will be strengthened, and illegal navigation under bad weather conditions is strictly prohibited, and ferry ferryboats are strictly supervised on site.

He Jianzhong introduced that from January 20 onwards, some of the long-distance passenger transportation lines over 800 kilometers above 13 kilometers in 13 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) will simultaneously carry out pilot work on long-distance passenger transport connections. By selecting suitable sites during the operation of passenger cars, the driver’s parking will be replaced. People, landing and rest, or change of vehicles for substitution, transporters who continue to carry out passenger transport tasks by the driver who waits at the connection point, and prevent many problems caused by fatigue driving and night stop of passenger cars, improve the safety of long-distance passenger transportation at night Level and quality of service.

The minibus-free toll policy will continue to be implemented during the Spring Festival this year. Localities will use the toll gates to provide free passes without issuing card lift bars, set up special free passages, set up temporary traffic signs, guide free vehicles, and pay vehicles to separate roads. To ensure safe and smooth roads during the holiday season.

He Jianzhong said that the assessment of the implementation of the free passage of the “Golden Week Expressway” during the “Eleventh” year last year found that ordinary roads parallel to the expressway are not congested, and the transportation department will guide the travelers to select routes through information on road conditions. He also reminded travelers to drive civilly and safely.