This year’s Spring Festival Transport is the first normalized Spring Festival Transport after the epidemic prevention and control has stabilized, and passengers have a strong willingness to travel. Judging from the situation in the first nine days of Spring Festival travel, railways, as a popular means of transportation, are the first choice for passengers to travel, with an average of 11.834 million passengers per day.
During the Spring Festival travel period, the railway department did its best to arrange transportation capacity and put all passenger cars into operation. It can provide up to 10.7 million passenger seats per day (excluding reuse on the way), and the total amount of transportation capacity is the highest in history. Despite this, passenger tickets are still in short supply.
During the peak period of Spring Festival travel, passengers travel intensively, and railway passenger flow has the characteristics of extreme concentration, extremely uneven flow, and one-way flow. Moreover, it is impossible for any means of transportation to prepare capacity according to the highest passenger flow, otherwise it will cause a huge waste of normal transportation resources. According to the analysis of pre-holiday ticket sales and waiting lists, all railway transportation capacity has been put into use, but it is still unable to meet the large-scale ticket purchase demand of passengers traveling intensively in just a few days. The contradiction between supply and demand is extremely prominent. It is expected that many passengers will travel during the peak period. It is impossible to buy train tickets as desired, especially for popular trains in particularly popular directions such as Guangzhou to Chongqing and Shenzhen to Wuhan.
The essence of “tickets available” on the “ticket grabbing software” page
The remaining ticket data displayed on the "ticket grabbing software" platform page is obtained by crawling the information displayed on the page from the 12306 platform, and then modifying and processing it. When the train tickets for a certain train are sold out, the 12306 platform will show that there are no tickets for the train, but when it is displayed on the "ticket grabbing software" platform, it will be changed to "ticketed", which essentially allows passengers to "buy a long trip and take a short trip" and " Buy the short and multiply the long”. "Ticket-grabbing software" induces passengers to set up multiple destination combinations, and adopt the "buy long-distance and take short-distance" method of spending more money to buy tickets for several stops ahead of the actual arrival station, as well as "buy short-distance tickets first and get on the train, but do not get off in violation of regulations" Buy tickets using the "buy short, ride long" method. Under "Have a ticket", additional small print prompts are set, such as "Buy for a few more stops" or "You don't have to get off the bus for the whole journey, just get on the bus to pay the ticket", etc. This kind of "Have a ticket" does not really have a ticket from the departure station to the arrival station. "Buy a short trip and take a short trip" will make passengers pay more. "Buy a short trip and take a long trip" and get on the train to pay for tickets may trigger an overcrowding alarm and affect the safety of train operation. The railway department will ask those who "buy a short trip and take a long trip" to get off the train in accordance with regulations. Passenger travel will be greatly affected.
In addition, the "ticket-grabbing software" also recommends unreasonable transfer plans, allowing its platform to show that tickets are available. Some transfer times are particularly short, which can easily cause "missed rides" when passengers travel. However, the "ticket-grabbing software" does not consider For these, only the fees earned by successfully purchasing tickets will be considered.
It is recommended to make full use of the new railway 12306 functions such as subscription to sales reminders, pre-filling of ticket purchase requirements, waitlisted ticket purchases, and special ticket purchase services for migrant workers and students to increase the success rate of ticket purchases. When you cannot buy the direct ticket you want, you can try to buy a connecting ticket on the 12306 platform and travel in sections. The railway department has launched transfer services at 120 major stations, allowing passengers to transfer without leaving the station.
