Soccer - Traffic Surveillance and Forecast for Large- Scale Events

The traffic during big events like sport games is characterized by a huge exceptional travel demand during a very short time-span. Usually this demand exceeds by far the capacity of the transport system as a whole. Therefore, it is in the responsibility of the traffic management exerted by the relief units, e.g., the police, as well as of the local authorities, like the city administration together with public authorities of the surrounding region, to control and maintain traffic flow. To do this, existing traffic control and management centres need to have a fairly complete on-line traffic surveillance and monitoring of the region under consideration.