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 2-2. Event Operation Characteristics

There are 8 event operation characteristics, each having several variables:

  1. Area Type
  • Urban
  • Metro
  • Rural
  1. Event Location
  • Single venue
  • Multiple venues
  • Fixed venue
  • Temporary venue
  • Park
  • Streets
  1. Event Time of Occurrence
  • Night/day
  • Weekdays/weekend
  • Single day
  • Multiple days
  • Multiple weeks
  • Tourist season
  1. Event Type
  • Sports/concert
  • Fair/festival
  • Parade/race
  • Convention
  1. Event Market Area
  • Local
  • Regional
  • Statewide
  • National
  1. Audience Accommodation
  • Free/cost
  • Ticket/ticketless
  • General admission
  • Reserved seating
  1. Expected Attendance
  • No variables listed
  1. Event Time and Duration
  • Specific start time
  • Predictable ending time
  • Continuous operation
  • Multiple start times