A bird’s eye view of Spring Festival travel rush ｜ New changes in data refraction from ＂going well＂ to ＂going well＂

　　CCTV News:Spring Festival travel rush is a long way home, from the green leather car to the "Fuxing" EMU, from "walking well" to "walking well". Behind the safe and stable operation of the train, it is inseparable from the hard work of many maintenance workers.

　　This is the largest passenger train maintenance base in Shandong Province, which undertakes the daily maintenance work of all the more than 1,600 ordinary-speed passenger cars and power-concentrated EMU cars in Shandong Province.

　　Every morning, the six tracks of the power centralized EMU maintenance base are full of trains waiting for "physical examination". The maintenance workers of Jinan Depot of Jinan Bureau of China Railway have to inspect and repair 48 cars of Fuxing power centralized EMU at the same time, and the scene is brightly lit and the maintenance lasts all night.

　　During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, the train runs at a high density, and the maintenance workers are busier than usual. Every day, there will be 32 passenger trains that have been overhauled from here to various stations, carrying home passengers to all parts of the country.

　　Shandong: A cross-sea ferry capable of loading trains.

　　Yantai-Bohai Ferry is the longest railway ferry in Asia, which integrates railway, port and shipping. During its stay in Spring Festival travel rush, it is expected to send 42,000 passengers, ferry 15,000 cars and transport 550,000 tons of railway materials.

　　Yanda Bohai Ferry starts from Lushun West Station in the north and reaches Yantai West Station in the south, with a sea transportation distance of about 99.79 nautical miles. Railway transportation by ferry is more than 1600 kilometers shorter than that around Shanhaiguan, which is the shortest route from Shandong to Northeast China.

　　China Railway Bohai No.3 Ferry has a total length of 182.6 meters and a width of 24.8 meters. The full-load displacement can reach 16,229 tons, and a single voyage can carry a 50-section freight train, 50 trucks, 25 cars and 716 passengers.

　　As the Spring Festival approaches, trains loaded with grain, coal, daily necessities and holiday materials "swim" on the north and south banks of Bohai Bay every day, becoming a unique sea scenery in Spring Festival travel rush, China. At present, Yantai-Bohai Ferry operates 3-to-6 voyages daily.

　　The number of arrivals in less populated cities has increased significantly today.

　　On the thermal map of Spring Festival travel rush on February 7th, the most popular cities haven’t changed much. According to the ticketing data of 12306, it is estimated that the number of arrivals in 48 cities will increase obviously on February 7th.

　　The number of arrivals in 48 cities including Aksu, Xuancheng, Jishou, Nanping, Baoding, Ningbo, Zhuzhou, Qujing, Chifeng and Qinhuangdao has not changed much in the past few days, but more people will arrive here on February 7, and most of them belong to cities with less population. The number of arrivals in Xuzhou, Ganzhou, Anqing, Bijie, Weinan and Zhangzhou in the past week has increased every day.

　　Beijing replaced Guangzhou as the most popular candidate city.

　　The popular route for applying for standby tickets changed on February 7, and Beijing replaced Guangzhou as the most popular departure city for applying for standby tickets. The waiting tickets from Beijing to Chaoyang, Chifeng, Harbin, Zhengzhou, Linfen, Xinyang and Anyang are the most tense, while the waiting tickets from Shanghai to Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Zhoukou, Shangqiu and other central cities are also tense.

　　As the year is approaching, remind the passengers that in addition to the direct ticket, you can also choose the transfer scheme of Railway 12306 and choose the combined ticket. According to the data, about one out of every seven travelers since Spring Festival travel rush has transferred to their hometown by combining tickets.

　　The return train tickets for the Spring Festival have been sold. Judging from the tickets sold by Railway 12306 at present, it has entered the peak period of everyone’s return from the third day of the New Year’s Eve, and the sixth day to the eighth day of the New Year’s Eve is the most intensive time period. Among them, the sixth day of the New Year’s Eve is the day when the return tickets are purchased the most.

　　"Reverse Spring Festival travel rush" has become a new trend, and the travel volume of the elderly has increased.

　　According to the analysis of China Unicom’s wisdom footprint on the age of travelers, "reverse Spring Festival travel rush" will become a new trend in 2024. The data shows that 20 years old — The number of 29-year-olds returning home decreased by 5.3% compared with the same period in 2023, while the number of people over 60 increased by nearly 30%.

　　More elderly people choose to go to their children’s workplace for reunion. Their origins are mainly concentrated in Sichuan, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan and other provinces, while their main destinations are Beijing, Xi ‘an, Tianjin, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Changsha and other first-and second-tier central cities.

　　College students who live in popular tourist cities "go home at the wrong peak"

　　There have also been new changes in college students’ travel. Some college students who live in popular tourist cities choose to "go home at the wrong peak" in 2024.

　　Among the college students registered on Qunar.com, more than 30% choose to travel first and then go home. College students in Guangzhou, Harbin and other places gave their hometown to foreign tourists, and they chose to go to Chengdu, Changsha, Wuhan and other delicious and fun cities first.

　　The proportion of people who stick to their posts and don’t go home during the Spring Festival has increased

　　Compared with the data of the previous two years, many people choose not to go home during the Spring Festival, and stick to their posts and devote themselves to their work. After modeling and analyzing the cell phone signaling data around the Spring Festival in recent years, the joint team of Peking University and China Unicom Smart Footprint found that during the period of Spring Festival travel rush in 2024, the number of employees in more than 2,000 key industrial parks nationwide will increase by 5.8% compared with the same period in 2023.

　　Among them, the number of employees in food and furniture manufacturing industries increased the most obviously, reaching 6.6%. At the same time, the number of employees in automobile, electrical machinery and other equipment manufacturing industries has also increased by more than 6%.

　　Young people become the main force of car rental during the Spring Festival.

　　In the Spring Festival of 2024, more and more people choose to travel by car. According to the data of CAR Inc., young people, such as the "post-90s" and "post-00s", have become the main force of car rental during the Spring Festival, and the total booking volume accounts for nearly half of the total, paying more attention to experience and being keen on interaction.

　　Where are young people going to rent a car? From the perspective of car rental destinations, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Xi ‘an and Shanghai rank in the top five, and the order data shows that they mainly book cars in different places, which accounts for more than 60%.