Every year as the Spring Festival approaches, grabbing train tickets has become the most important thing on the minds of people working outside.
Yesterday, trains from Beijing showed no tickets soon after tickets were released. Trains from Shanghai also showed no tickets soon after tickets were released. Trains from Guangzhou also showed no tickets soon after tickets were released. Some trains even "disappeared" within a minute.
After this news was released by China News Network, many netizens expressed emotion. Obviously more and more high-speed rail lines are being built, but why are tickets to go home for the New Year still so difficult to buy?
As more railways are built, tickets become more difficult to grab.
In recent years, domestic railway construction has really never stopped. The number of high-speed rail lines for operation has continued to increase, and the number of trains has become much denser than before.
But the problem is, Spring Festival The scale of population movement during this period was too huge.
The economy is developing, and the number of people going out to work and study is also on the rise. Everyone has a demand to return home for the New Year, and this demand is setting new records every year.
Furthermore, the household registration system is still in the process of improvement, and the housing security system is still being improved. Accordingly, although many people have been working in big cities for many years, it is still difficult to achieve the goal of settling down.
Going home during the Spring Festival is not only a reunion for them, but also a psychological sense of belonging.
Hundreds of millions of people travel together in just ten days, and no matter how many trains there are, they will be filled up quickly.
Scalpers have never disappeared, they just changed their methods.
Mentioning the difficulty of buying tickets, scalpers It can never be avoided.
In the past, people lined up to buy tickets, and scalpers hoarded tickets based on their connections; now that the real-name system has been implemented, they have switched to online operations.
The software that grabs the tickets, as well as the plug-in program, can lock the seats in batches the moment the tickets are released. When ordinary users manually refresh, the tickets are almost all occupied.
These scalpers took advantage of the shortage of tickets during the Spring Festival and resold tickets at high prices. This move not only disrupted the normal order of the market, but also caused people who were really eager to go home to spend unnecessary money.
Although the railway department has been cracking down and technical means continue to be upgraded, scalpers still have ways to exploit loopholes.
The time to go home is too concentrated, and the routes are also crowded.
Another reason that is easily overlooked is the time and route of returning home. Highly concentrated .
Most companies only have holidays two or three days before New Year's Eve, so everyone can only squeeze in those days to set off.
Trains originating from first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and bound for large labor export provinces such as Sichuan, Hunan, Henan, and Anhui, have always been key areas that are particularly difficult to obtain tickets and are the "hardest-hit areas."
It’s not that many people don’t have tickets, but they simply can’t get the train and time period they want to buy.
On the other hand, before the festival, trains traveling from relatively small cities to larger cities, or during certain less popular time periods, have sufficient remaining tickets.
To put it bluntly, the imbalance between supply and demand is maximized at a specific time and on a specific line.
There are also Spring Festival travel abroad, but there are more diversion methods
In fact, not only in China, but also in the United States, there will also be travel peaks during Thanksgiving and Christmas.
But many people there will choose to travel during off-peak hours or drive home by themselves.
The transportation hubs in the United States are more densely distributed, and the transfer points in the United States are even more densely distributed. Aviation, highways, and railways cooperate with each other, which can effectively disperse passenger flow.
In China, everyone is still accustomed to taking trains, especially high-speed rail has become the first choice.
With large amounts of traffic and high density flowing into the railway system in a short period of time, the pressure is naturally huge.
The real-name registration technology is slowly showing results
In the past few years, the real-name ticket purchase function has been launched, and then the standby ticket purchase function has also been launched. Since then, the space for ticket storage has been reduced a lot.
The situation where scalpers held a lot of tickets in their hands in the past is basically invisible now.
However, online scalpers still exist. These people use automated tools to grab tickets and then charge high "fees", which are "purchasing fees."
To treat this problem with fundamental methods, relying solely on technology is not enough. Laws and regulations must be further clarified, and at the same time, passengers must be encouraged to actively report.
The railway department's 12306 system, which has been upgraded year by year, continues to improve its ability to identify abnormal requests, and the success rate of ticket grabbing for ordinary users is also slowly increasing.
To truly solve the Spring Festival transportation problem, we must start from the root cause
From a long-term perspective, enabling more people to stay in their hometowns for development, or to actually take root in big cities, is the fundamental way to alleviate the pressure of Spring Festival travel.
If the central and western regions had more employment opportunities and greater room for development, many people would not have to leave their hometowns and go to work thousands of kilometers away.
At the same time, social security and housing policies should be improved to give migrant workers a sense of belonging. In this way, they may not have to rush home during the Spring Festival every year.
More companies also need to be willing to try methods such as staggered vacations and flexible working systems.
When it’s time to return home again, hundreds of millions of people are on the road, and everyone knows the feeling of wanting to go home.
Although it is difficult to grab tickets, there are more ways than difficulties.
Plan your itinerary in advance, make frequent use of the waitlist function, and pay attention to additional train information. This can increase the probability of buying a ticket!
I hope everyone who is working hard outside can successfully grab the ticket to go home.
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