How hot is the passenger flow in Guangzhou during the 2026 Spring Festival travel rush? According to data from the Guangzhou Spring Festival travel rush office, during this year's Spring Festival travel rush (February 2nd to March 13th), the cumulative number of people leaving and arriving in Guangzhou reached 200 million, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%. Multiple passenger flow indicators have set new records for the Spring Festival travel rush, with 8 of them reaching historic highs. The cumulative commercial passenger volume (civil aviation, railway, highway, waterway) is about 56.675 million, with a year-on-year increase of 17.4%. The passenger flow scale and travel popularity have repeatedly reached new highs. Behind these data lies the severe challenge of transportation facing multiple pressures. During the peak period of post holiday return trips, there is a high degree of overlap in the flow of migrant workers, family visits, tourism, and business, resulting in concentrated time and increased density of passenger flows arriving in Guangzhou. We used to predict passenger flow, but it was mostly based on experience. Now with big data, prediction accuracy has improved. ”Yu Yangdao, a staff member of the Guangzhou Spring Festival travel rush office, revealed the mystery behind it. "By exchanging data with departments such as airports and railways, we can accurately grasp the arrival and departure schedules and passenger flow to single digits one day in advance." This is not a simple data listing, but a science based "prediction war. Before the start of the Spring Festival travel rush, the Guangzhou Spring Festival travel rush office relied on the intelligent transportation system to accurately predict peak days, peak periods, and total passenger flow from and to Guangzhou through big data modeling and multi-source data fusion analysis. Analyze the changes in passenger flow at each station based on the railway major map; Based on the operation of Terminal 3 at Baiyun Airport, predict the transportation connection capacity; Improve emergency plans based on the operation of the highway network. Behind the "silky" travel during the Spring Festival travel rush is a "strongest brain" operating efficiently. In the command hall of Guangzhou Transportation Bureau, a huge electronic screen is displaying various real-time data: train arrival and departure information, hub passenger flow heat map, taxi capacity distribution, highway network speed... Guangzhou Smart Transportation System has achieved comprehensive integration of transportation data, gathering key transportation data such as civil aviation, railway, and expressway for foreign exchange, and coordinating urban traffic dynamic information such as subway, bus, taxi, ride hailing, and real-time road conditions internally, building a "one screen overview" comprehensive traffic situation perception system. The system is iteratively upgraded every year, and this year it has added monitoring of passengers' waiting time for ride hailing services and the duration of hub passenger flow, as well as improved automatic warning functions. ”Li Junjian from the Science and Technology Information Department of Guangzhou Transportation Bureau introduced, "Through the system, we can accurately grasp the passenger flow scale of trains arriving and departing at various time periods in the next 24 hours, and analyze the peak trend of passenger flow and the matching of transportation capacity supply and demand." In addition, road network upgrading and service optimization are being promoted simultaneously. New routes such as the southern section of the airport's second expressway and the Zengtian expressway have been completed and opened to traffic, enhancing the accessibility of the hub to the outside world; Strengthen parking guidance in highway service areas, optimize charging, catering and other services, and prevent parking saturation from flowing into the main line. This year, the high-speed rail operates overnight for 17 days, an increase of 4 days compared to last year. On February 20th (the fourth day of the first lunar month), one day earlier than in previous years, multiple "red eye trains" were added to Guangzhou South Station and Baiyun Station. The peak passenger flow was earlier than in previous years, and there were situations of short-term bus and taxi capacity shortages and longer waiting times for passengers during some late night periods. The next day, the Guangzhou Spring Festival travel rush office organized the Guangzhou South Station Management Committee and the Baiyun District Hub Office to conduct on-site research, carefully reviewed, and decided to increase the night free shuttle line from the day after the fifth day of the lunar new year, increase the bus capacity by 50%, and increase the frequency of bus trips. At the same time, they coordinated with ride hailing platforms to increase the allocation of bus capacity. The next day, the relevant situation effectively improved and the efficiency of transportation continued to improve.