Surrounding Area Adds Mobile Toilets

Adding mobile toilets in the surrounding area is an effective means to address temporary and periodic toilet demands, especially in high-traffic tourist attractions and transportation hubs during holidays. The necessity, planning principles, and applicable scenarios are as follows:

I. Necessity

1. Coping with surging tourist numbers: Fixed public toilets are designed based on daily tourist volumes. During holidays, peak tourist numbers can double or even triple, while the construction of permanent public toilets is time-consuming and costly, making it impossible to expand capacity in the short term. Mobile toilets can be flexibly supplied, deployed during peak seasons, and removed during off-peak seasons, avoiding resource waste. For example, in 2023, the Lanzhou Yellow River Scenic Area alleviated toilet pressure by adding mobile toilets.
2. Alleviating queueing issues: During peak tourist periods, long queues for women's toilets are prominent. Mobile toilets can specifically increase the number of women's toilet stalls, adjust the ratio of men's to women's toilet stalls, and add universal toilets and mother-and-baby toilet stalls, quickly reducing tourist complaints.
3. Reducing uncivilized behavior: Insufficient toilet supply can lead to tourists relieving themselves in inappropriate places. Adding mobile toilets can shorten the walking distance to toilets, reducing incidents of relieving oneself in green belts or corners, and easing the pressure on urban management.
4. Flexibility and rapid deployment: Mobile toilets can be installed within a few days and are suitable for areas with weak permanent toilet coverage, such as parking lots and transfer plazas. After being equipped with guiding signs, they can be put into use immediately. Wuhan's Jianghan Road Pedestrian Street solved the problem of tourists having difficulty finding toilets by adding mobile toilets.

II. Planning Principles

1. Scientific layout: Set up toilet points based on the specific needs of different scenarios, such as one every 500 meters at the entrance and exit of tourist attractions, 3-5 for every 10,000 people at transportation hubs, and at least 1-2 for every 1,000 square meters at large-scale events.
2. Supporting management: During peak periods, increase the frequency of waste removal and assign cleaning staff. Adopt environmentally friendly designs such as solar power and water circulation systems. Display the locations and usage status of toilets in real-time through mobile maps.
3. Avoiding blind deployment: Core tourist attractions should disperse toilet points to peripheral gathering areas. In the long term, it is still necessary to optimize the layout of permanent public toilets, with mobile toilets serving only as short-term emergency solutions.

III. Applicable Scenarios

Popular tourist attractions, urban events (such as porcelain expos and music festivals), transportation hubs (train stations, bus stations), and old urban areas with a shortage of public toilets or aging facilities.