4 Annual report A/S Storebælt Traffic Some 12,779,645 vehicles crossed Storebælt in 2017, which is a rise of 3.0% compared to 2016 adjusted for the leap year day. Consequently, traffic growth was well above the average long-term traffic growth, even though the growth rate was slightly less than the previous year, when traffic increased by 4.4 per cent. The 12.8 million vehicles correspond to annual daily traffic of 35,013 vehicles, of which passenger cars amount to 88%. The growth for lorries in 2017 was 4.8%, which is higher than in previous years. In six of the year’s months, monthly traffic exceeded 125,000 lorries, and was thus slightly above the previous monthly record for lorries. The major fluctuations in the first and second quarters are mainly due to Easter, which in 2017 was in April. The wet summer of 2017 impacted passenger car traffic when July traffic was 2.0% below that for the same month in 2016. December was also characterised by relatively low growth. Thus, it was typically holiday periods that contributed to the reduced growth in passenger cars for the year, i.e. 2.8% for the whole year compared to the previous level of 4-5%. Coach traffic declined by 2.2% in 2017 following high growth rates in previous years. The development should be seen in the light of the fact that Spring 2016 saw an extraordinary high level of coach traffic across Storebælt due to the deployment of replacement buses in connection with track work on East Funen. For the rest of 2017, traffic growth established a level comparable to passenger cars. Despite the increase for all types of vehicles, Storebælt still has good capacity. This is because an increasing number of drivers are using BroBizz® and can drive through the toll station much more quickly. The percentage of vehicles using a BroBizz increased to 65.6 per cent in 2017, corresponding to over 300,000 more vehicles with a BroBizz or other OBEs. Traffic record for Storebælt - top 5 Year 2017 2016 2015 2014 2008 No. of passages per year 12,779,645 12,437,748 11,880,022 11,361,421 11,025,788 Annual percentage traffic growth on Storebælt 20162017 20152016 Passenger cars 2.8 4.4 Lorries 4.8 4.3 Coaches -2.2 10.5 Total 3.0 4.4 20142015 4.8 1.6 49.3 4.6 Traffic per day on Storebælt Passenger cars Lorries Coaches Total 2017 30,977 3,917 119 35,013 2016 30,126 3,736 121 33,983 2015 28,857 3,581 110 32,548 Quarterly traffic development in 2017 compared to the same quarter in 2016 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Passenger cars 4.1 3.3 1.3 2.9 Lorries 9.3 1.9 4.1 4.5 Coaches 3.2 -13.7 3.3 2.2 Total 4.7 3.0 1.6 3.1
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