Keeping Glasgow Running During Games Times.
POLIS Annual Conference: - Marshall Poulton, 27 November 2014
Madrid
Scope
1. Games Overview
2. Transport Challenges-Road
-Rail
-Subway
-Bus
3. Games Route Network
4.
Local Area Traffic Management
5. Travel Demand Management
6. What went well!
7. Legacy
• Sports – 17
• Competing nations – 70 nations and territories
• Athletes and officials – 6,500
• Media officials from all over the world – 6,000
• Spectators – Over 250,000 on peak days
• Spectator tickets sold – Up to 1.1 million
• Days of competition – Morning, afternoon and
evening over 11 consecutive days
• Venues – 14 venues, 1 Athlete’s village & 3
clusters
• Audience expected to tune in – 1.5 billion
Transport Overview
Ticket Sales:
Of tickets made available to the public
by Glasgow 2014:
• 53% of ticket sales are within Scotland
• 43% are in England
Transport Overview
Transport Corridors
• 51% of Spectators are within
a day-trip journey time of
Glasgow (2.5 hours)
• 49% of Spectators will require
accommodation (hotels,
friends & family, bed and
breakfast, camping etc.)
A78: 4%
Day Trip Distribution
+
Accommodation Trip Distribution
=
Average Trip Demand:
M80: 21%
A82: 5%
M8: 29%
Glasgow
17%
A737: 4%
M74: 11%
M77: 9%
Rail/Subway/Bus Enhancements
Rail Plan
Additional/strengthened services
Late night services
Innovative resource
management
Customer Service
World Host Training
Over 3000 staff
Resilience
Contingency planning
Asset maintenance – key pinch
points
Industrial Relations
Cross Border arrangements
Additional
early and
late services
across key
routes
Bespoke
training
package
for all
customer
8 trains facing staff
per hour
serving
Celtic Park,
Velodrome
and SECC
Games Route Network (GRN)
Tollcross
Celtic Park
Kelvingrove
Lawn Bowls
Velodrome &
Emirates Arena
Scotstoun Sports
Campus
Glasgow Green
Road Courses
Village
Hockey Centre
SECC
Ibrox
Hampden Park
Domain-specific Games-wide
Leadership
Leadership
CGF
Francesca Osowska
Diane McLafferty
Lisa Bird
George Black
Carole Forrest
David Grevemberg
David Leather
Ministerial/
Senior Officials
Group
City
Operations
Board (COP)
Games Time
Committee of
OC Board
(GTC)
CG Gold
Commander
Transport
Programme
Board
SG
Coordination
Centre
(SGCC)
City
Operations
Coordination
Centre (COPS)
Games
Operations
Centre (GOC)
CG MultiAgency
Coordination
Centre
(MACC)
Transport
Coordination
Centre (TCC)
4 x FOPs City
Centre, East
West South
Local
Deployment
Theatre
level
coordination
G2014 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
4 x Live Site
ECRs
Glasgow Green,
Kelvingrove,
Clydeside,
Merchant City
Scottish
Government
Local Auth.
Glasgow City
Council
Games
Media &
Messaging
Group
Protocol
Coordinatio
n Centre
(PCC)
Venue teams
DCC Steve Allen
West Division
SPT
Network Rail
First Scotrail
North Division
GCC Roads Authority
East Division
Transport Scotland
Police (BTP & PS)
Transport
Other Transport Authorities
Transport Communications Team
OC - Transport
FA teams
Organising
Committee
Mike
Hooper
Roy Brannen
Brian Devlin
Police
Scotland
Transport
Agencies
CGF
(and CGS)
What went well
•
Movement of Athletes
•
Movement of Games Family-97%
•
Movement of Spectators-74%, very satisfied
•
Keeping Glasgow Moving-Businesses-90%
•
Social Media and Apps- over 1million per day
•
Accessible Transport
•
City Centre Shuttle Service
•
Governance
•
Transport Co-ordination Centre
Legacy
•
50 National Legacy Programmes
•
80 Supporting Legacy 2014 Projects
•
300 Community Led Projects
(Active, Connected, Flourishing, Sustainable)
•
Transfer of Knowledge to Gold Coast 2018
•
Road Enhancements (East end)
•
Junction Improvements
•
Smart City Benefits
•
Roadworks (Mapping Benefits), ELGIN……roadworks.org
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THANK YOU