A total of 56,806 passengers used public vehicles (interprovincial buses and vans) to return from the provinces to Bangkok on 3,364 trips on Monday, the state-run interprovincial bus operator Transport Company reported on Tuesday.

State-owned and private buses and vans have been arranged to make an average of 4,000 trips daily from Thursday to Monday to carry people travelling between Bangkok and the provinces during the long New Year holidays (December 29-January 1), the Transport Company announced on Thursday.