Taiwan
In Taiwan, spring travel is also a major event. The majority of transportation in western Taiwan is north-south direction long distance travel between urbanized north and hometowns in rural south. Transportations in eastern Taiwan and that between Taiwan and islands are less convenient. Cross-strait flights between Taiwan and mainland China begin in 2003 as part of Three Links, mostly for "Taiwanese businessmen" to return to Taiwan for new year.
The majority of transportation before the Eve in western Taiwan is southbound long distance travel, in which people travel from urbanized north to the hometowns in rural south. After the Eve there are a lot of family local tours throughout the holidays. On the second and the third day, there is a second wave of medium-long distance travels when the families go to the hometowns of the wives. Near the end of holidays there is a wave of northbound returning travels which is less concentrated than the southbound travels. In 2012 on the second day of the lunar new year there are estimated 3 million cars on the island's freeways, and on the 8th day (the Friday of the holiday week) there are "2.7 million vehicles, about 1.7 times the average daily traffic volume of about 1.6 million."
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