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 9-2. Unified Command Organization for Planned Special Events

The Incident Commander of a Unified Command coordinates and manages the Information Officer and seven branch agencies: Public Safety, Local Police, State Police, Department of Transportation, Transit Agency, Event Organizer, an Emergency Management Agency.

The State Police Branch includes the Private Towing Company Unit.

The Department of Transportation Branch includes the Transportation Management Center Group, which includes the Freeway Service Patrol Unit.

The Event Organizer Branch includes the Transportation Consultant (traffic/parking) Group, which includes the Traffic Control Vendor Unit and Volunteer Crew Unit.