How to ensure the smooth traffic of expressway toll station during the holiday peak period?

How to ensure the smooth traffic of expressway toll station during the holiday peak period?

Abstract: In recent years, China's expressway construction has achieved rapid development, which has provided a strong support for China's national economy. But at the same time, the number of motor vehicles in China is increasing at a faster speed, which leads to frequent congestion and slow traffic on some major highways. Especially during the major holidays, the traffic volume of expressways has surged, and large-scale traffic jams often occur at toll stations. Therefore, how to ensure the smooth traffic of expressway toll stations during holiday peak hours is an important topic for expressway managers. This paper discusses this and puts forward some countermeasures, hoping to provide some ideas for alleviating highway holiday congestion.

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Keywords: toll station; Expressway; Congestion; Smooth; measure

First, the main reasons for the congestion of expressway toll stations 1. The traffic flow design standard is unreasonable, and the traffic growth forecast is inaccurate. At the initial stage of some expressways, due to the slow development of local economy and small traffic volume, the future traffic growth was not accurately predicted, resulting in too few reserved toll lanes and low traffic capacity. When the traffic volume increases rapidly, it is easy to exceed the design standard, resulting in congestion of toll stations, especially during the peak traffic hours on holidays. Even if all toll lanes are opened, congestion cannot be avoided. 2. Congestion of toll stations caused by human factors When the traffic volume increases during holidays, it is inevitable that there will be slow traffic flow, mutual rush and long waiting. At this time, due to the impatience of the driver, it is easy to cause vehicle collision. At the same time, the service quality of staff will inevitably be affected by long-term hard work, and drivers and passengers are also prone to quarrel with staff. These human factors will cause traffic congestion. As long as these problems occur together, it is easy to cause a chain reaction and lead to major accidents. 3. Congestion caused by toll station facilities and equipment When the traffic volume increases during holidays, the workload will also increase. If the toll collection system, traffic lights, lifting poles and other equipment and facilities are improperly maintained and overloaded for a long time, it may break down and cause congestion. 4. Congestion caused by natural factors Due to natural conditions such as freezing rain and snow, the speed is slow, leading to congestion. Second, the main measures to alleviate the congestion during the peak hours of expressway traffic. During the peak hours of holiday traffic, the traffic volume often has the characteristics of "concentrated time, concentrated flow direction and concentrated vehicle types". According to these characteristics, highway managers can carefully analyze the causes of congestion and formulate targeted measures to solve and alleviate the congestion phenomenon of toll stations. Let's talk about specific measures first. 1. To improve employees' ideological understanding and enhance their service concept, we must first educate employees within the enterprise, so that employees can form a unified ideological understanding, fully understand the importance and significance of ensuring the smooth holidays, and mobilize their enthusiasm for enthusiastic service through various means. Holiday rush hour is a good opportunity to reflect the work image and comprehensive quality of toll station employees, reflect the emergency ability of managers and win social recognition. Therefore, managers should make full use of the holiday peak period to carry out ideological education and service mobilization, enhance employees' service awareness, and strive to improve service quality and work level. 2. Improve employees' business skills and operational level. During the holiday peak period, the charging speed must be fast, so as to maximize the traffic speed. Therefore, the professional level of employees is very high. This requires toll station managers to regularly conduct business skills training and actual combat training for employees in their daily work, and at the same time, improve their business level and comprehensive quality through technical competitions and on-the-job training, so that employees can master operational skills skillfully to ensure the overload work during the holiday peak period. 3. Check and test equipment and facilities regularly to ensure trouble-free during holidays. In daily work, it is necessary to conduct comprehensive inspection and routine maintenance on the toll collection equipment, systems, toll station pavements, signal lights, signs and signs on a regular basis, especially before major holidays, to ensure that the toll collection equipment and facilities can operate normally and be in good condition during the holiday peak period. During holidays, except for emergency repair construction, pavement construction projects shall not be arranged to avoid traffic jams caused by construction. At the same time, equipment maintenance and pavement maintenance departments should be on standby 24 hours a day. Once there is a need for maintenance or emergency repair, they can deal with it as soon as possible and solve the problem in the shortest time. 4. Focus on the deployment of toll stations with concentrated traffic. During the holiday peak period, not all toll stations will have peak traffic. Often only some toll stations near cities or scenic spots will have traffic jams. Therefore, in the deployment of holidays, it is necessary to predict the toll stations with concentrated traffic according to the past experience, open standby channels and increase the number of toll collectors. Give priority to personnel, equipment, funds, etc. And coordinate manpower with traffic police, road administration and other relevant departments to focus on guarding these toll stations and do a good job in ensuring smooth flow. 5. Accurate prediction and timely warning As the manager of the expressway, he should be able to analyze the possible traffic flow in time and judge the possible congestion according to the traffic capacity of the toll station, and give early warning through TV, radio, information signs, text messages and other channels at the first time to remind the public to travel at the wrong peak. For example, the coastal expressway in Shenzhen, the traffic from downtown to Yantian, Dameisha and Meisha in summer is often congested from 10 to 6 pm. According to the congestion situation, the management department will issue an early warning on TV and radio one day in advance, which obviously reduces the traffic flow the next day and achieves good results. 6. Transform toll stations that are often congested during holidays and increase lanes.