The Planned Special Events (PSE) Program makes available webinars, publications, and other resources to help practitioners better manage PSEs. For a listing of traffic management for PSE publications, please visit the Office Of Operations’ Publications web page. Summarized below are recent PSE resources.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) PSE program invites your agency to share policy, process, checklists, fact sheets, briefings, and other documents that may benefit your fellow PSE practitioners. The FHWA may feature your PSE resource within this page or through upcoming webinars and workshops. Please contact us to share your agency’s PSE resources that may benefit other PSE practitioners.
Experts in travel demand management, mobility, and operations share best practices and lessons for PSEs through this webinar hosted jointly by the National Operations Center of Excellence and the Association for Commuter Transportation.
NY/NJ FIFA WC26 Planning: Feasibility Study Checklist–Sal Cowan, Senior Director of Transportation Mobility, New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and Elizabeth Falcon, Principal Transportation Analyst in the Office of Emergency Management, Security, and Response, NJDOT
2025 Presidential Inauguration: From Planning through Post-Event Debrief–Thomas S. Neider, Chief Safety and Security Officer, District of Columbia’s Department of Transportation (DDOT) and Natalie Jones Best, Emergency Preparedness and Risk Manager, DDOT
PSE Checklist Resource for Practitioners–Vaishali Shah, Director of Transportation Systems, AEM Corporation
2026 World Cup Planning in Dallas–Natalie Bettger, Senior Program Manager, Congestion Management and System Operations, North Central Texas Council of Governments
Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour in Indianapolis: From Initial Planning to Post Event Evaluation–Ed Cox, ITS Engineering Director, Traffic Management Division, Indiana Department of Transportation (DOT)
June 2024 Workshop on the 2026 FIFA World Cup™ Planning. This seven-page report summarizes discussions and polling among participants that discuss transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) strategies for the event.
2018 Special Events Planning Guide. District of Columbia Mayor’s Special Events Task Group. This 35-page document clarifies planning, agency-specific, and fee components for planning events in the District of Columbia, including requests for roadway closures and application processes.
2017 Super Bowl Operations. This 2-page document highlights how the Georgia Department of Transportation collaborated with stakeholders to develop the “Downtown Atlanta Special Events Playbook” and implemented preemption traffic signal timing and communications plans to efficiently move over a million people over the course of the 2019 Super Bowl.
