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 6-4. Planned Special Event Activity Networks

The diagram displays several travel alternatives from the origin, through a region, then through the site area and finally to the venue. The first option shows a taxi/limo/charter bus going to and from the origin to a mode transfer denoted as pickup/drop-off. One can walk to and from the mode transfer and venue.

The second option shows the use of an automobile to and from the orgin and the first mode transfer, an express bus station in the region. Then an express bus is used to get to and from the second mode transfer, in the site area. That second mode transfer is another express bus station. One can get to and from the express bus station and venue by walking.

The third option shows the use of an automobile to and from the origin to the first mode transfer, which is a parking deck in the site area. One can walk to and from the venue from the parking deck. Or one could walk from the parking deck to a shuttle bus station, then take a shuttle bus to another shuttle bus station and then walk to the venue. Or take another shuttle bus to a transit station and then walk to the venue.

The last option shows the use of an automobile or walking to and from the origin and a transit station in the region. Transit is used to get to and from one transit station to another in the site area. From the transit station in the site area, one can walk to and from the venue.