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 3-4. Planned Special Event Management Phases and Associated Products

The five phases of planned special event management are cyclical, beginning with Program Planning, then Event Operations Planning, then Implementation Activities, then Day-of-Event Activities, then ending with Post-Event Activities, which flows back to Program Planning.

Program Planning Products

  • Institutional frameworks
  • Policies and regulations
  • Infrastructure deployment

Event Operations Planning Products

  • Feasibility study flows to Traffic Management Plan and Travel Demand Management
  • Traffic management plan flows to Travel Demand Management
  • Travel Demand Management flows to Traffic Management Plan

Implementation Activities

  • Implementation plan flows to Review and Testing and Personnel Training
  • Review and testing flows to Implementation Plan

Day-of-Event Activities

  • Traffic Monitoring flows to Traffic Management

Post-Event Activities

  • Participant Evaluation and Post-Event Debriefing flow to Post-Event Report