Game Day Traffic Management

1. Game Day Traffic Management - APWA
Matthew Weisman, PE
Hoffman, Weisman & Associates

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4 Agency Partnership

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5.  City maintains all traffic signals and beacons in
the entire county.
 Includes 230 signalized intersections, 76+
flashers
 All urban area intersections are online
 200+ HD cameras have been installed
 Network design is geographically redundant 10
GIGE ring, with 1 Gb/s between intersections
 As compared to previous dialup 1.2 kb/s. (over 1
million times faster)
Traffic Management System

7. Why Arterial ITS?
 Traffic signal coordination through constant system-wide
real-time monitoring and adjustments for congestion and
delay reduction. No more ”set it & forget it” !
 Enhanced emergency response for Fire-Rescue through
system wide traffic signal priority control
 Enhanced mass transit through priority control
 Traffic Incident Management
 Law Enforcement Assistance
 Event Management
 Simplifying Field Devices

8. Advanced Traffic Controller

9. Traffic Cameras
 Must have eyes:

10. Communications

11. Communications

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15. I-75

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Saves Time and Money
We are able to diagnose and
resolve issues without having to
send a technician to the field

18. Incident Management

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Rowdy Crowds
Remote
Management

20. Special Events
• Parades
• Funeral processions
• Police/Emergency Escorts

21.  Locations with full TMS connection
 Gainesville Police Department
 Direct fiber optic connection
 Alachua County Sheriff’s Office
 Direct fiber optic connection
 University Police Department
 High bandwidth radio
 Regional Transit System (RTS)
 Direct fiber, serves as redundant NOC
Satellite TMC

22. Satellite TMC
Ben Hill Griffin
Stadium

23.  Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
 City of Gainesville Public Works Department
represented in the ICS Structure
 Incident Command Booth Includes:
 University Police Department
 Gainesville Police Department
 Alachua County Sheriff Office
 Gainesville Fire Rescue
 Alachua County Fire Rescue
 Health Department
 UF Emergency Management
 City of Gainesville Public Works
Satellite TMC

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 Starts on Friday afternoon
 Home Game: Escort Gators from stadium to hotel as
quickly and safely as possible.
 Away Game: Escort Gators from stadium to airport or
route out of town.
 Team now flies nearly everywhere in the SEC
 Routes change often
 Away Team: Escort visiting team from Gainesville
Regional Airport to either stadium or their hotel.

26. What is an escort?

27. What is an escort?
• Operator uses central management
software to manually control traffic
signals using mixture of patterns
and preemptions to assure a flush
& green lights for LEO escorts.

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 Securing the Stadium
 Stadium goes into “lockdown” Thursday evenings
 Game day mornings – bollards are in put place around
the ingress points.
 Removable for emergency vehicles only

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 Saturday Inbound
 Depends on kickoff time
 Start in-bound patterns 4 hours prior to kickoff 3:30 pm and
later, 3 hours prior if 12-12:30 games
 Williston Rd, Archer Rd, Newberry Rd, WUA (to 34th St) run
162 second cycle length. WUA by campus 200 s and 120 s.
 Priority #1, keep I-75 off-ramps clear
 Williston Rd NB off-ramp worst in City (Half cloverleaf)
 Impossible on early game-days
 Later the game, the better in-bound as traffic is more sporadic
 Inbound pattern concludes precisely at kickoff.

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 Saturday Inbound
 Law Enforcement Action
 Block outside lane on Archer Rd before NB off-ramps. Keeps
the off-ramps in a state of free-flow.
 Occasional block 2 outside lanes
 GPD and FHP coordination
 COG Traffic Operations provides cones and barriers to assist
LEOs.

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 Team Escorts to the Stadium
 Gators usually come in first
 Both escorts use a common route onto campus
 Police escort with remote traffic signal preemption
 Heavily flushed out corridors to give both teams and LEO
SAFE and speedy ingress onto campus
 Campus can get congested with fans

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 Gator-walk
 University Ave shut down from W 22nd St to W 17th St
 Signals are held in a state of “all-red” during closure, except
for WB movements at 21st Terr and 22nd St
 Law Enforcement Action
 Block some approaches with patrol cars
 Officers will stand in the center of the intersection enforcing
shut down
 Can last 15-20 minutes

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Crowd control for side walks

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 During the game

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 Post-game
 Contra-flow
 Westbound SW 2nd Ave
 Southbound Gale Lemerand Dr (UF Campus onto Archer Rd)
 Strategic Blockages
 SW 13th St onto Archer Rd
 Forces more traffic to Williston Rd or Micanopy I-75 interchanges
 University Ave to SB 34th St
 Very little receiving storage (intersection is less than 1000’ away
 Forces more traffic to Newberry Rd interchange
 Outside through lane must turn right to allow for free flow right
turn for SW 34th St
 Free-flow right turn provides more capacity to 34th St onto Archer Rd

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 Ingress/Egress
 16 locations
 6 Major (green)
 2 Ped Activity
(red)

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 Post Game Traffic Signal Program
 Traffic Controller schedules are not pre-
programmed
 All patterns must be downloaded in real-
time by an operator

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Active Arterial Management - AAM
• Real-time
Diagnostics
• On-the-fly
Timing Changes

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 Post-game
 Send to FLASH
 WUA @ 15th St
 WUA @ 36th St
 S 2nd Ave @ 36th St
 SW 9th Ave @ 13th St (Beaty Towers)
 Windmeadows Blvd @ 34th St

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 W 34th St and west
 254 second cycle length
 Priority #1, get vehicles to the interstate
 AVOID:
 Going against majority flow of major intersections
 Limited side street green time for non-game related approaches

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 13th St and east
 Send to 200 second cycle length
 Includes 13th St, parts of University Ave
 Priority #1, get vehicles SB on 13th St to Williston
Rd interchange, even better, Micanopy. SW 16th
Ave and Archer Rd suffers.
 AVOID:
 EB Archer Rd
 NB 13th St (south of W University Ave)

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 Police Traffic Signal Interaction
 Only intersections near the stadium go into
LEO MCE. Mostly for pedestrian control.

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 Police Traffic Signal Interaction
 Rest of traffic signals operate in event timing
patterns. MCE is disabled.

71. GAC-SmarTraffic.com/
Gainesville/Alachua County SmartTraffic
• Live Traffic Alerts and Updates
• Up to the Minute Traffic Cameras
• Facebook
• Twitter @GACSmarttraffic
• Mobile Friendly Site
• Make Smart Traffic Decisions

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 How else to measure success:

73. Special Cabinet
 Checkout Stadium @ Gale Lemerand:

74. The End
Questions?
msweisman@hwa-eng
Or the City:
352-393-7960