Traffic Organization with Simulation for Vehicles on Beijing Olympic Venues

During the Beijing Olympic Games, all venues needed to efficiently manage traffic circulations of the Olympic family members such as VIPs, technical officials, athletes, registered medium and so forth. Travel demand characters of the Olympic venues were analyzed and traffic management principles were proposed. By developing traffic simulation models and performing simulation study for the Olympic venues, suitability and efficiencies of venue traffic operation plans were analyzed and evaluated. A case study of the Wukesong Indoor Stadium and Baseball Fields is provided. Using micro-simulation package VISSIM, different traffic operation plans under various non-Olympic background traffic volumes were tested and evaluated, and the optimal plan was selected. Recommendations to improve the plans were also given based on the study results. The actual traffic operations during the Games proved that the proposed optimal traffic operation plan and recommendations were applicable and effective.