a collage of eight photos showing a stakeholder meeting, people boarding a bus, a changeable message sign displaying the message race traffic, cars traversing a roadway where barricades delineate travel lanes, a closed-circuit television camera, a crowd of people standing near a train and traversing a pedestrian overpass, two implementation plans, and three traffic management team personnel gathered around a laptop computer

Managing Travel for Planned Special Events

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Description of Figure 13-2. Event Operations Planning Process Flowchart

The Event Operations Planning Process begins with the initiation of the feasibility study, which is a component of traffic planning.

Step 1. Modal Split, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 2 and 3.

Step 2. Transit Service, component of Transit Planning. Links to Step 1.

Step 3. Event Traffic Generation, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 1 and 4.

Step 4. Traffic Arrival and Departure Rate, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 3, 5, and 27.

Step 5. Market Area Analysis, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 4 and 6.

Step 6. Parking Demand Analysis, component of Parking Planning. Links to Steps 5, 7, 9, and 10.

Step 7. Traffic Demand Analysis, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 6 and 8.

Step 8. Roadway Capacity Analysis, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 7, 11, and 12.

Step 9. Shuttle Bus Service, component of Transit Planning. Links to Steps 10 and 6.

Step 10. Lot Assignment, component of Parking Planning. Links to Steps 9 and 6.

Step 11. Corridor Traffic Flow Routes, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 8, 13, 14, 15, and 17.

Step 12. Local Traffic Flow Routes, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 8, 13, 14, 15, and 16.

Step 13. Alternate Routes, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 11, 12, 14, and 15.

Step 14. Emergency Access Routes, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 11, 12, 13, and 15.

Step 15. Background Traffic Accommodation, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 11, 12, 13, and 14.

Step 16. Transit Accommodation, component of Transit Planning. Links to Steps 12, 18, and 19.

Step 17. Freeway Traffic Control, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 11 and 25.

Step 18. Street Traffic Control, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 16, 19, and 20.

Step 19. Intersection Traffic Control, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 16, 18, and 20.

Step 20. Vehicle Access and Circulation, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 18, 19, 23, and 25.

Step 21. Parking Area Design and Operation, component of Parking Planning. Links to Steps 20 and 22.

Step 22. Parking Occupancy Monitoring, component of Parking Planning. Links to Steps 21, 23, and 24.

Step 23. Pedestrian Control, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 22, 24, and 25.

Step 24. Disabled Accessibility, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 22 and 23.

Step 25. Analysis and Modeling, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, and 28.

Step 26. TDM and Transit Service, component of Transit Planning. Links to Steps 1, 25, and 28.

Step 27. Event Patron Incentives, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 4, 25, and 28.

Step 28. Traffic Incident Management, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 25, 26, and 27.

Step 29. En-Route Traveler Information, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 28 and 30.

Step 30. Traffic Surveillance, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Steps 29 and 31.

Step 31. Pre-Trip Traveler Information, component of Traffic Planning. Links to Step 30 and advance to implementation activities.

The process ends with advance to implementation activities.