Bearings Behind Holiday Travel: How Small Components Support Trains, EVs and Luggage Systems

China’s Golden Week is one of the busiest travel periods in the world. During the 2025 National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, China recorded about 2.43 billion cross-regional passenger trips, while civil aviation handled about 19.14 million passenger trips. On the first day of the holiday, China’s railways also handled a record 23.13 million passenger trips. These numbers show how strongly transportation systems depend on stable mechanical components, including bearings.

Behind every train, electric vehicle, airport conveyor, escalator, luggage system, cooling fan, and transport motor, bearings help support smooth rotation, reduce friction, and improve reliability. Although bearings are small, they are essential for keeping high-frequency travel equipment running safely and efficiently.

In trains and rail-related systems, bearings are used in traction motors, auxiliary motors, fans, pumps, doors, and transmission components. These applications require stable rotation, strong load capacity, and long service life. For electric vehicles, bearings must support higher speed, lower friction, lower noise, and better energy efficiency. During the 2025 Golden Week, Reuters reported that electric and hybrid vehicles accounted for about one fifth of China’s 63.5 million car trips, showing the growing importance of EV-related components. Reuters

Holiday travel also increases demand for airport and station equipment. Conveyor systems, luggage handling machines, automatic doors, escalators, vending machines, small motors, and cooling systems all use different types of bearings. These applications often require deep groove ball bearings, miniature bearings, sealed bearings, and low-noise motor bearings.

At LUMI Bearing, we supply miniature bearings, small deep groove ball bearings, stainless steel bearings, high-speed bearings, low-noise bearings, and OEM bearing solutions for transportation-related equipment, motors, fans, automation systems, and compact mechanical devices. Our team can help customers choose suitable bearings based on speed, load, sealing structure, noise level, working environment, and target cost.

Recommended Bearing Models:
For holiday travel equipment, transport motors, EV components, luggage systems, conveyors, fans, and automation applications, recommended bearing models include 608ZZ, 608-2RS, 685ZZ, 686ZZ, 6001ZZ, 6002ZZ, 6201-2RS, 6202-2RS, 6203-2RS, 6204-2RS, 6205-2RS, 6208-2RS, 6301-2RS, 6305-2RS, and other transport bearings, EV motor bearings, conveyor bearings, luggage system bearings, miniature bearings, and deep groove ball bearings.