An expressway in Quzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/qz123.com]

During the 40-day Spring Festival travel trash that started on Jan 7 and ended on Feb 15, Quzhou in Zhejiang province served a total of 4.85 million passengers by railways, roads, waterways, and civil aviation, an increase of 17.9 percent over the same period in 2022.

Data showed that the city's total passenger volume totaled 4.04 million in terms of road passenger transportation, an increase of 15.2 percent over the same period last year. The number of deliveries was 205,200, an increase of 3.8 percent year-on-year.

A total of 743,000 passengers traveled via railway, a year-on-year increase of 34.2 percent.

In this period, civil aviation saw a passenger throughput of 63,000, a rise of 30.6 percent year-on-year.

The city's urban public transportation completed 103,000 trips, delivering 2.92 million people during the travel rush period.

The total traffic volume at the entrances and exits of expressway toll stations in the city was 3.76 million vehicles, with an average daily traffic volume of 94,200 vehicles, 0.73 percent higher than that in the same period of 2022.

Thanks to the expressway reconstruction and expansion project, as well as inter-provincial traffic control, no long-distance, long-term, and large-scale traffic jams occurred.

In addition, the city offered chartered bus service to migrant workers for work resumption. During the Spring Festival travel rush, more than 4,000 people were picked up by chartered buses.