Moderator(s): 
Carlos Campo Osorio, WSP

Session Description and Agenda

Description
The last time the United States hosted a soccer World Cup was in 1994 and a Summer Olympic Games in 1996. Back in those days, cities were less sprawling and most managed lanes were freeway HOVs and busways. Three decades (and many Super Bowls later), we have much more traffic congestion and not much better public transportation, but also many more tools to manage intermodal supply and demand using technologies, pricing, and trip planning. We also have much more experience in hosting major events breaking record attendance year after year. Our closing plenary session looks to explore the various ways major event and transportation planners can work together to harness the potential of managed lanes and related transportation management tools to provide residents and visitors enhanced travel options, reliability and economic vitality. We look forward to hear our panelists share lessons along their plans to use the transportation network for future events, and also to provide a forum for our attendees to provide insights on using managed lanes effectively for these events and for posterity. We look to this session as a trigger of many fruitful collaboration opportunities between event planners and transportation systems management professionals to use events as a test bed for the future of our transportation systems.