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Long Description: Initial Planning Activities Checklist - Step 4

Step 4. Contingency Planning

Assessments:

  • Need for developing a traffic management plan that is scenario-based
  • Need for considering and planning for a range of possible unplanned scenarios
  • Need for determining changes in operation due to unplanned scenarios

If Assessments apply:

Tips/Examples:

  • Weather
  • Severe weather outbreak
  • Flooding on event site access routes
  • Flooding in event parking areas
  • Parking during wet weather
  • Security threat
  • Major traffic incident
  • Delayed event
  • Event cancellation
  • Absence of trained personnel and volunteers on the day-of-event
  • Equipment breakdown
  • Demonstration or protest
  • Unruly spectator behavior
  • Overcrowding
  • Event patron violence

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