Guiding traffic in the case of big events with spot checks on traffic and additional parking space requirements

• Published in: Central European journal of operations research Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 755 - 773
• Main Authors: Kimms, A., Maassen, K.-C., Pottbäcker, S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.12.2012; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Automobile parking; Business and Management; Computation; Congestion; Evacuation; Infrastructure; Integer programming; Mathematical models; Operations research; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Optimization; Original Paper; Parking; Parking facilities; Patrol cars; Simulation; Studies; Technology application; Traffic assignment; Traffic congestion; Traffic engineering; Traffic flow; Variables; Vehicles; Germany; Big events; Spot checks on traffic; Traffic routing; Cell-transmission model; Mixed-integer programming
• ISSN: 1435-246X; 1613-9178
• DOI: 10.1007/s10100-011-0202-y

Big events lead to temporary very high traffic volumes which usually exceed traffic capabilities of the existing infrastructure. Hence, it is necessary to control traffic in a way that helps to keep traffic congestion as low as possible. In this paper we introduce a traffic planning model for big events which optimizes traffic routing, allocates parking space, and defines locations for spot checks on traffic. We extend and modify a traffic flow model that has successfully been used in previous work on evacuation planning. A computational study demonstrates the model’s applicability to a real world situation.