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 3-10. Traffic Flow Route Assessment Process

The process of assessing corridor and/or local traffic flow routes begins by identifying the traffic flow route. The next step is to estimate existing route capacity. Then, determine if forecasted traffic demand is greater than capacity.

If forecasted traffic demand is greater than capacity, identify traffic control strategy to increase capacity. If forecasted traffic demand is still greater than capacity, reevaluate traffic control strategies.

If forecasted traffic demand is less then capacity, estimate changes in background traffic demand. Then conduct analysis and modeling to estimate operational MOEs. Then review route with community interest stakeholders.

Is the impact on traffic operations acceptable? If it is not, identify event traffic or parking restrictions and then review route with community interest stakeholders again, or reevaluate traffic control strategies, or reevaluate traffic flow route until the impact is acceptable.

If the impact on traffic operations is acceptable, recommend route.