IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-38958-8_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Managing Transport during the Olympic Games

In: Managing the Olympics

Author

Listed:
  • Eva Kassens-Noor

Abstract

The Olympic Games draw millions of visitors to a metropolitan area. The primary goal of transportation planning in the context of hosting the Games is for preparations to meet peak travel demands. This often involves enhancements to transport infrastructure and innovations in respect of the operational capacity to move people into and out of Olympic precincts. To achieve this new capacity, the application of best practices for Olympic transport, prior mega-event experience and test events are crucial elements in successfully handling peak demands. A frequently used proxy for the Olympic transport task is the number of tickets sold in comparison to the residential population. Figure 8.1 compares the population of multiple metropolitan areas at the time of the Olympic Games with the tickets sold for events. Taking an upper bound estimation of the number of people that had to be moved, Atlanta’s transit riders were to quadruple, Barcelona’s and Sydney’s were to triple, London’s and Athens’ were to double and Beijing’s were to increase by 30 per cent due to the Olympic Games.

Suggested Citation

  • Eva Kassens-Noor, 2013. "Managing Transport during the Olympic Games," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stephen Frawley & Daryl Adair (ed.), Managing the Olympics, chapter 8, pages 127-146, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-38958-8_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230389588_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yamawaki, Y. & Castro Filho, F.M.d. & Costa, G.E.G.d., 2020. "Mega-event transport legacy in a developing country: The case of Rio 2016 Olympic Games and its Transolímpica BRT corridor," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-38958-8_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.