Transport Construction and Traffic Management Plan (Draft) For public comments and proposals
 
According to the schedule made by the Beijing Municipal Government and BOCOG regarding to the release of the Beijing Olympic Action Plan –Transport Construction and Traffic Management Plan (Draft) in both Chinese and English is now available on the website of BOCOG for public comments and proposals. The website is: http://www.beijing-2008.org.
You could send your advices and suggestions to Beijing Transport Development Research Center at the following address. For those who choose to send in your comments by mail or fax, please write "For Transport Construction and Traffic Management" on your envelope or fax.
 
Mailing Address:
Beijing Transport Development Research Center
No.60, Nanlishi Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, P. R. China
Postal Code: 100045
E-Mail: olympic@bjtrc.org.cn
FAX: (0086-10) 68056183
 
You can also let us know your comments and proposals over the hotline: (0086-10)68052299-6550 (Office Hours, Mon.-Fri.)
 
The deadline for your comments is Dec.30, 2002.
 
 
1. Guidelines and Objectives
 
 
This plan is formulated based on the aims and objectives of Beijing Olympic Action Plan, to accelerate the modernization process of transport construction and traffic management in Beijing for convenient, rapid, safe, orderly, efficient and environmentally friendly transportation services, and to create first-class traffic environments for staging a best-ever Olympic Games in history.
 
1.1  Guidelines
 
(1) Necessary and sufficient transport support will be provided to guarantee the realization of Beijing's global objectives for social economic development and city construction. At the same time, responding to the unique opportunities created by Beijing Olympic Games, the modernization process of transportation construction, operation and management will be accelerated by utilizing the favorable conditions made available by Beijing's rapid social and economic developments based on Beijing's advantages in science & technology and human resources.
 
(2) The urban transport infrastructure construction will be aimed to meet Beijing's global demand in urban developments while the temporary and localized special traffic demand during the Olympic Games will be satisfied through scientific traffic organization and traffic demand management.
 
(3) As a guiding principle, the construction and management of transport facilities will be integrated while equal attention will be paid to both traffic demand management and facility operation management.
 
(4) The policy of public transportation priority and modern logistics system development will be adhered to so as to improve the Beijing's daily commuter trip structure and passenger freight transport modes. The growth of private car ownership will be guided while their use be properly restricted.
 
(5) The public transportation system will also be fully exploited as a functional instrument in guiding Beijing's urban development. Urban land development with transit-oriented development (TOD) will be employed to rationalize Beijing's layout and provide reliable transportation supporting facilities for the development of scattered groups and small towns in the suburbs.
 
(6) Interurban traffic of Beijing as the nation's capital will be enhanced to provide necessary transportation support for the integrated development of Beijing and neighboring cities.
 
(7) The organizational system for urban transportation construction and management will be improved and regulated to provide more efficient institutional support for Beijing's urban transportation planning, construction, operation and management.
 
1.2 Urban Transportation Development Objectives for 2008
 
The modernization process of transportation construction and management in Beijing will be greatly advanced to provide convenient, rapid, safe, orderly, efficient and environmental friendly transport services. The construction of railway, urban road, expressway, interurban transport hubs and modern transportation operation administration system will be accelerated to provide sufficient transport support that guarantees the development of Beijing's social economic development and urban construction, and to offer first class urban transport services for the Olympic Games.
 
(1) A multi-functional system of airport hub and land transport hubs will take shape with the integration of spoke and point-to-point patterns.
 
(2) Beijing's integrated urban transportation system will be established with proper functional structure, high capacity and efficiency, and more human orientation.
 
(3) The urban trip mode structure in Beijing will be substantially improved. With railway transport as the backbone, buses and trolley buses as the mainstay, the public transportation system will carry up to 60% of daily commuters, upgrading its share in total daily trips from 26% to 40%.
 
(4) World-class road traffic management system will be established. The framework of Integrated Intelligent Transport System will be formed. The capacity and efficiency of Beijing's passenger and freight transport will be of world advanced level. Intelligent management in transport dispatch, loading service and transport information service will be realized.
 
(5) The average auto speed on urban expressways in rush hours will reach 35~50km/h, and the average speed on main roads in urban areas will reach 20km/h. The average time for commuter trips within the 5th ring road will not exceed 50 minutes.
 
(6) During the Olympic Games, it will take no more than 30 minutes for athletes, coaches and Olympic officials from residential places to venues. On the Olympic transport priority lanes, the average speed will not be no less than 60km/h.
 
(7) Intelligent road traffic management will be available. Police controlled area will be increased to 10~15%. The times of vehicle stopping will be reduced by over 50%. The queuing lines at intersections will be decreased by 50%. The traffic accidents will be reduced by 20%.
 
(8) Traffic environment quality will be substantially improved. Vehicle exhaust and noises will be efficiently controlled.
 
 
2. Urban Transport
 
2.1  Road System
 
By the year of 2008, a modern urban road network will be completed, which will be rationally structured both in function and structure, and backboned by the urban expressways and main roads. The density of road network within the 5th ring road will reach about 2.62km/km2.
 
Priority will be given to the construction of some key urban expressways, main roads, minor roads and branch roads, the re-construction of some key intersections and the elimination of the bottle necks in the road network. Special attention will be directed to the construction of collecting networks between the 2nd and 4th ring roads, and the construction of corridors connecting downtown areas and the 10 scattered groups. Both the road network layout and the functional structures will be improved. Newly built and rebuilt urban roads will reach 318km, including 54.1km urban expressways, 86.7km main roads and 96km roads in central area.
 
Bicycle lane network and pedestrian areas (streets) will be planned and constructed. This will be started in the old town areas and newly built communities.
 
2.2 Public Transportation System
 
2.2.1 Urban Railway Transport
 
Using the guiding policy of public transport priority, the urban railway transport will be fully employed to support the execution of "two strategic transitions" in the city master plan and the realization of strategic objectives for urban transport development. The operation strategy is to speed up the construction of new lines and the rebuilding of old lines, to improve the service facilities and upgrade the services, which will substantially increase the urban railway transport's share in the total passenger transport, and relieve the city's traffic congestions. By the year of 2008, 154.5km urban railway will be newly built, expanding the total length of urban railway lines to 249.5km in the downtown areas. Some suburb railway lines will also be constructed, increasing Beijing's urban railway operation lines to over 300km in total. The urban railway system is expected to carry 1.8~2.2 billion passengers per year.
 
Eight new subway lines will be built in the urban area, including Subway 5th Line (from Songjiazhuang to North Taipingzhuang, 27.6 km), Subway Batong Line (from Sihui East Station to Tongzhou Tuqiao, 19 km), Subway 4th Line (from Beigongmen to Majiabao, 23.9 km), the north section of Subway 10th Line (from Huoqiying to Dabeiyao, 23.9 km), Olympic Line (from Olympic Park to Panda Roundabout, 4 km), Yizhuang Line (from Songjiazhuang to Yizhuang, 26 km), Airport Special Railway Line (from Dongzhimen to Capital International Airport, 22 km), the middle section of Subway 9th Line (from Baishiqiao to Beijing West Railway Station, 5.8 km). Subway 1st Line and 2nd Line will also be renovated by upgrading their signs and signal systems, installing the automatic ticketing systems and introducing new carriages.
 
2.2.2  Buses and Trolley Buses
 
In the coming 7 years, priority will be given to the optimization of bus line network, the construction of transit terminals and the rapid development of high capacity public passenger transportation. The terminals at Dongzhimen, Xizhimen, Beijing Zoo, Wangjing, Sihuiqiao and some other places will be constructed or renovated so as to form a rationally located, easily accessible and efficient public passenger service network, centering in the downtown area and radiating to the scattered groups and residential zones.
 
By the year of 2008, the capacity of Beijing's buses and trolley buses transport will reach 4.5 billion passengers per year, and the number of operation vehicles will reach 18000. There will be more than 650 public transit lines with a network density of 2.16km/km2.
 
In the coming few years, the key tasks will be as follows:
 
1).    Optimize the bus and trolley bus service network, expand the service areas, and form an efficient passenger transport network by rationally grading and structuring the expressway network, the trunk line network and the branch line network with the support of urban expressways, main roads, minor roads, branch streets (including roads in residential area), and highways.
 
2).    Accelerate the construction of bus interchange terminals and improve the service facilities. The fleet of buses and trolley buses will be expanded or renovated to upgrade the service and operation.
 
3).    Accelerate the research and development of bus dispatch centers, GPS, wireless communication systems and lower chassis vehicles to upgrade the operation level and the application of science and technology.
 
4).    Promote the application of clean energy in public transit vehicles, aiming at over 80% of the buses using clean energy and all the buses operating in the Olympic Pack and major venues using clean energy by the year of 2008.
 
5). Improve the public transport information service system to meet the demand of high quality communications and information search during the Olympic Games and ordinary daily passenger transport.
 
2.2.3  Taxi
 
Taxi, as an auxiliary and assistant part of the public passenger transport system, will be governed by Beijing's passenger transport plan and brought to full function. In the coming 7 years, taxi services in Beijing will be developed into an efficient, energy saving, safe, environmental friendly urban transport tools and offer good services of international standards.
 
The vehicles used as taxies will be upgraded and conform to the Technical Standards for Special Vehicles Used as Taxies. By the year of 2008, middle and high class vehicles will be over 70% of the total operating taxies, clean energy vehicles will be over 70%, and all of the operating taxies will meet the environmental standards. At the same time, taxi service dispatching system will be established with integrated service modes of phone call service, station call service and roadside call service. The enterprise computer management system and Beijing taxi industry service standards system will be formed and all the taxi drivers are expected to be able to speak most frequently used 100 English sentences for taxi services.
 
2.2.4  Automobile Rental
 
The automobile rentals in Beijing will be developed with unified planning and size control. The development plan of automobile rental will be established to promote the automobile rental in Beijing.
 
2.3 Parking Construction
 
In view of the possible increase of civilian motor vehicles, the civilian parking lots (primarily those for night parking) in urban area will reach 1.5 million, upgrading the ownership of fixed parking lots for motor vehicles from 66% to 100%. The number of public parking lots will be increased to 225,000, raising the rate between public parking sets and motor vehicle ownership from 12% to 15%.
 
The public parking facilities will be constructed in conformity with the capability of road network according to the city plan and downtown area traffic demand management plan. The supply of public parking space will be measurably controlled in the downtown areas. At present time, the night parking certificate system is being enforced while flexible charging will be introduced in order to regulate the in-come flow of cars in the downtown areas for a better balance of dynamic and static traffic.
 
The construction of public parking facilities outside the downtown areas will be encouraged. Car parking and bicycle park will be constructed as auxiliary facilities at railway terminals and bus centers. Park-and-ride will be encouraged. In the peripheral areas, parking facilities will be constructed along main radial highways for the temporary parking and cleaning of freight trucks from other provinces and cities.
 
3  City and Interurban Transportation
 
3.1 Highway Construction, Passenger and Freight Transport Development
 
3.1.1  Construction of Highway Network
 
The construction of national highway, city highway and rural highway network will be accelerated in order to form main radiate routes consisting of 12 national highways and national arterial highway, subordinate radiate routes consisting of 11 city highways, 9 connection highways and 2 ring roads. By the year of 2008, 10 suburban counties/districts in Beijing will be connected to the downtown area by either expressway or first-grade highway; the centers of neighboring counties/districts will be connected by expressways, first-grade or second-grade highways; the towns and the centers of their counties/districts will be connected by highways of third-grade and above.
 
By the year of 2008, it will take approximate one hour's drive to travel from the centers of suburban counties/districts to the downtown area. It will take less than one hour's drive to travel between the centers of neighboring counties. It will take less than one hour's drive to travel from the centers of towns to the center of their county. In addition, it will take less than 2 hours to reach the downtown area from the border of Beijing, and less than 3 hours to pass through.
 
In order to realize the above objectives, 1509km highway will be constructed and 2530km highways will be renovated, including 5 national highways of 132km in length, 33 city highways of 751km in length and many county highways totaling 751km in length to be constructed or renovated.
 
By the year of 2008, 15400km highways in the suburbs of Beijing will be built, including 718km expressways, 713km first-grade highways and 2882km second-grade highways. The density of highway network will reach 91.6km/100km2.
 
3.1.2 Interurban Highway Passenger Transport
 
In the coming 7 years, the interurban passenger transport of Beijing will be developed under the principle of overall planning, structural readjustment, focus orientation, intensified operation, standardized administration and technology renovation, so as to improve the interchange between interurban passenger transport and urban public transportation, and to establish an interurban highway passenger network with Beijing as the center based on the expressways and high grade highways connecting with the whole country. During this period, inter provincial passenger transport routes will be increased by 15% while expressway routes account for up to 10%, reaching 24 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions and satisfying the demand for long distance highway passenger transport.
 
3.1.3 Highway Freight and Urban Logistics Transport System
 
By the end of 2007, five important freight terminals will be constructed, including Majuqiao first-grade freight terminal, Yancun first-grade freight terminal, Tianzhu first-grade freight terminal, Shibali Dian second-grade freight terminal and Laiguangying second-grade freight terminal.
 
The restructuring of highway freight industry will be accelerated to optimize the vehicle composition and payload structure, and improve freight yards and logistics infrastructure. Priority will be given to the development of urban logistics distribution, container transportation and multi-mode combined transportation, upgrading Beijing's freight transport industry to the standards of a modern international metropolis with advanced facilities, professional management, well regulated markets and smooth flow of freight. The highway transport information platform will take shape for the intelligent and IT application in the dispatch of passenger and freight transport. The highway freight industry will realize its modernization in vehicle equipment, transport organization, yard facilities, information exchange and social service, and meet the freight transport and logistics service demands during the Olympic Games.
 
3.2 Railway
 
The construction of railway network and technical renovation will be accelerated to upgrade the transport capacity and quality, adjust the transport structure and sufficiently utilize advantages of railway to join in urban railway transport. In the coming 7 years, the focus of railway construction in Beijing are as follows: To connect Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Rail to Beijing railway network, to construct the special route for railway passenger transport from Beijing to Tianjin, to construct the straight underground route from Beijing Railway Station to Beijing West Railway Station, to expand and renovate Beijing Railway Station, Beijing North Railway Station and Beijing South Railway Station, to reconstruct the Beijing–Qinghuangdao route for high running speed, to reconstruct the Beijing-Shanghai route for electricity powered automotives, to expand and reconstruct the carriage organization place of Beijing West Railway Station, to reconstruct the railway freight logistics center and yards.
 
It is also an important task for the coming few years to renovate the present railways and operate more suburban railway routes.
 
The passenger and freight transport capability by railway will be adapt to the requirement of Beijing's economic and social development, with a reasonable layout of railway facilities,advanced equipment,smooth routes, and coordinated functions. The major equipment and technology will be of the international standards of 1990s. During the Olympic Games, the railway authorities will reorganize running schedules and provide high quality services according to the demand of passenger transport.
 
3.3  Civil Aviation
 
With the goal to become a multi-functional large pivotal airport in Northeast Asia, Beijing Capital International Airport will be expanded and reconstructed to meet the need of the Olympic Games and the social economy development.
 
Under the precondition of ensuring that Beijing Capital International Airport can function as a complicated pivot, the middle-long term development objectives are illustrated as an airport with a passenger volume of 60-65 million per year, a freight and postal volume of 1.8-2 million tons per year, a taking-off and landing volumes of 0.5-0.6 million sorties per year.
 
In the coming 7 years, Beijing Capital International Airport will carry on many construction projects as follows: new airstrip construction projects, flight control and weather communications projects, special plane and administration building projects, aviation station area projects, freight projects, integrated supporting facility projects of the airport, urban waiting hall projects and so on. By the year of 2008, Beijing Capital International Airport will achieve a passenger volume of 48 million per year, a freight and postal volume of 1.3 million tons per year, a taking-off and landing-on volume of 0.4 million planes per year.
 
4  Traffic Management
 
Insist on reform and innovation to upgrade the management from empirical management to information based scientific management. Insist on optimizing the resource distribution of road and traffic police to upgrade the management from extensive to intensive. Strengthen the police resources with science and technology to upgrade the management from the labor-intensive to technology-intensive. Insist on human orientation and upgrade the administration-oriented management to service-oriented management. Insist on people first to achieve the conversion from administrative management to service management.
 
By the year of 2008, intelligent traffic management system, reflecting advanced management and technology, will be instituted, using the advanced science and technology to satisfy both the economic and social development of Beijing and the transport requirements for the Olympic Games in conformity with Beijing Urban Master Plan up to the standards of international metropolises. The modernization of Beijing's traffic management will take shape and Beijing will join the most advanced traffic management cities in the world.
 
4.1 Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS)
 
Comprehensively upgrade the collection, analysis and integration of dynamic and static information of road traffic and administration, and the ability for scientific decision-making. Improve the ability in handling traffic accidents and the ability in emergency response. Upgrade the traffic information services to the public. The intelligent traffic management system will be available as a scientific instrument for Beijing's urban traffic management and the traffic organization during the Olympic Games.
 
By 2008, there will be two major systems and eight projects in traffic management. The two major systems include the intelligent traffic control system and advanced traffic management information system. The eight projects include the expansion and improvement of the urban road traffic real-time-dynamic information management system, the renovation of intelligent traffic signal control system, the establishment of integrated comprehensive intelligent transportation management system, the establishment of the wireless communication system of traffic management, the establishment of the intelligent communication network security system, the construction of the broadband communication integrated services network, the construction and improvement of integrated traffic management information application system, and the improvement of the traffic management information distribution system.
 
4.2 Build Efficient Organization and Management System
 
In view of the urban transportation development for 2008 and the road construction and renovation, the comprehensive road traffic organization master plan will be formulated to meet the requirements in the urban construction and development. The transportation organization structure will be further optimized to establish a scientific traffic organization and management system based on the urban highway network and public transit network with differentiated functions for the roads in different regions to meet various traffic demands. By relieving the interference among different types of traffic, the road resources will be optimized step by step for the efficient performance of different roads and the comprehensive improvement of traffic and transportation efficiency.
 
4.3 Improve Management Service to Meet Public Needs
 
The principle of "people first" will be represented not only by human friendly designing of transport facilities but also by the change from administrative management to service-oriented management. Priority will be given to service while seeking the management objectives on vehicles, accidents, surface traffic order, the construction and management of traffic facilities. The management policies and practices will be developed in order to make people's daily trips as convenient as possible.
 
5  Traffic Support System
 
5.1  Implementing Law and Regulation System, Insist on Strict Law Enforcement
 
Amend the law system of Beijing transportation construction and traffic management to meet the needs of the capital transportation construction and traffic management under the national laws and regulation governing the transportation construction and management so as to lay a solid legal foundation for Beijing's transportation administration according to the laws and regulations. At the same time, upgrade the law enforcement level by strengthening the management and law enforcement, regulating the transportation construction behaviors, traffic administration behaviors and citizens' traffic behaviors in order to improve the traffic environments and ensure the smooth movement of traffic.
 
5.2 Strengthen the Training of the Law-enforcing Personnel and Social Transport Service Teams
 
To focus on modernizing and advancing the diathesis of the whole city management team and scientific management system, enforce the construction of executing agency. Establish institutional schedule to guarantee 2008 Olympic traffic guarantee training plan for the traffic executing agency, city administrator and other concerned officials it may concern. Make the capital executive agency a team that is faithful and trustworthy, disciplined, selfless, under perfect discipline, to fulfill tasks assigned to it by the Party and the people. And also make the social traffic service team a team that is skilled in professional service, and to serve the people heart and soul.
 
5.3 Strengthen Publicity and Increase Citizens' Transport Civil Awareness
 
Relying on Beijing transportation safety board and all levels of party committees and government, traffic safety organizations of different forms to manage the publicity of traffic safety will be set up immediately. Change the bad habit of drivers and pedestrians by succeeding in holding the Olympic Games, get through various kinds of forms and channels to strengthen citizen's consciousness of traffic safety, Olympic Games traffic, civilized traffic, obeying the traffic regulations rigidly, standardizing the traffic behavior, caring of self and influencing others, making great efforts to set up civilized image and reflect the theory of "people friendly Olympic Games" to show the civilization of the capital. Make the percentage of citizens obeying the traffic regulations over 95% by strict road traffic enforcement and wide traffic safety publicity.
 
 
6 Traffic Organization for the Olympic Games
 
It is necessary to make feasible, scientific and highly efficient, perfectly Olympic Games traffic organization plan and create best traffic environment, accordingly to the traffic demands of each activity of Olympic Games. In a word, it is sure to achieve the aim of holding 2008 Olympic Games with convenient, rapid, safe, orderly, efficient and friendly environment protected transportation services.
 
6.1Formulate Olympic Traffic Organization Master Plan
 
It is helpful to separately study various kinds of personnel trip demands and various kinds of traffic, vehicles and transportation, etc during the course of the Olympic Games through the traffic management experiences learned from other cities which have held Olympic Games and have organization experience of various kinds of large campaigns Beijing held. On this basis, it is clear to formulate a perfect master organization plan of social traffic organization, Olympic family traffic organization, venue traffic organization, traffic control organization, transport service organization, emergency service etc.
 
6.2 Implement Institute Organization, Strengthen Application of Science and Technology, Guarantee Coordinated, Integrated and Efficient Controlling
 
Set up general traffic organization center for the Olympic Games and branch centers at Olympic Village and major Olympic Games venues. Perfect TV monitoring systems of the Olympic Village, competition venues and traffic routes to master the situation of stadiums and traffic routes in time. This is the basis for decision-making process of traffic management. Set up the communication system between every department to ensure they can keep in touch with each other and transmit information in time. Connect the computers between organization committee and general traffic organization center, making each grade directors at center could log in external website and organization committee's information center to obtain information of players training and competition schedules in time, then dispose proper arrangement in good time. Through TV monitoring system, intelligent signal control system and computer managed information network etc, the aim of dynamic, concentrate, grade control of road traffic safety and security will be achieved.
 
6.3  Traffic Security Plan of Olympic Games
 
Based on the Olympic Games traffic organization master plan and real transport demand during the Games, design detailed security plan of Olympic Games transport will be prepared, according to Olympic Games security master plan by exploring all Olympic Games competition gymnasiums and stadiums, residential places and traffic routes situation in detail.