[Ministry of Transport: the average daily traffic volume of expressways across the country is expected to increase by more than 73% year on year during the May Day holiday] the Ministry of Transport held a regular press conference on April 27th. Gu Zhifeng, deputy director of the Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said at the meeting that it is expected that the national highway network during the May Day holiday this year will have the characteristics of high overall flow, high proportion of self-driving, increased travel of new energy vehicles, and multi-point distribution of congested roads. Gu Zhifeng said that the average daily traffic volume of highways across the country is expected to reach 53.3 million to 54.3 million vehicles during the holiday period, an increase of about 73% to 77% compared with 2022, and the traffic on the first day of the holiday is likely to break the historical peak. The average daily traffic volume of ordinary national and provincial highways will reach 9300 to 10000, an increase of about 31 to 40 per cent compared with 2022.