CCTV News: Today (April 6) is the last day of the Qingming Festival holiday. The transportation department expects that the peak of holiday return will be held this afternoon. At present, how are the operation of highways and waterways nationwide? What are the characteristics of the travel situation across the country today?

CCTV reporter Chen Xi: Today is the last day of the Qingming Festival holiday, and the free passage time for small passenger cars with 7 seats and below 7 seats has reached 24:00 today. During this year's Qingming Festival, the weather is generally conducive to travel, and the national road network traffic remains at a high level. It is expected that the return passenger flow will be relatively concentrated between 16:00 and 18:00 today.

This year's Qingming Festival holiday highway travel has shown four characteristics:

First, highway traffic has increased year-on-year. It is expected that during the Qingming Festival, the average daily flow of expressways nationwide will be about 59 million vehicles, an average daily increase of about 1.1% over the same period last year.

Secondly, the proportion of self-driving passenger cars is high, and the flow of new energy vehicles has increased significantly. It is expected that the flow of new energy vehicles will account for about 18% of the average daily total flow.

Third, road trips are mostly medium and short distances around the city, and the tide characteristics are obvious.

Fourth, on the road section of the outings and worship, vehicles are prone to slow traffic.

Today, the national water transport passengers were expected to exceed 1.05 million. Yesterday, the national water transport passenger passenger flow peaked in the entire Qingming Festival.

On the last day of the Qingming Festival holiday, the "visiting and returning" craze between Hong Kong and mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area continued. Data from the Shenzhen Maritime Bureau shows that from April 4 to today, the Shenzhen Hong Kong-Macao Line passenger ships have traveled 654 times, and the number of passengers has exceeded 78,500. The peak of a single-day will be held from 15:00 today.