17 February 2026
Preparing Congestion Briefs Before Songkran Travel Peaks
A practical sequence for spotting highway and city-edge sectors that soften under holiday mobility before crews are already stretched.
Songkran and other holiday corridors move traffic in ways ordinary Tuesdays never do. Service teams that wait for the first flood of tickets often spend the festival week in triage instead of prevention.
Six weeks out, pull the previous year’s busy-hour windows for the same calendar stretch. Rank sectors by how quickly resource utilisation climbed once travel began, not merely by absolute peak. A sector that climbs early along an exit road may matter more than a downtown cell that was already saturated.
Share that ranked list with planning and with the field supervisors who will actually visit sites. Ask which candidates already have known antenna issues, pending hardware, or landlord access delays. Those notes turn a Capacity & Congestion Brief into a schedule rather than a slide deck.
During the festival itself, keep a short daily log: which ranked sectors generated new tickets, which stayed quiet, and which surprises appeared. That log becomes next year’s starting evidence and shortens the briefing cycle.