Event Center Planning
Partner with event centers to revise the traffic patterns around venues to reduce idling vehicles. Venues attract traffic from a variety of drivers, many of which idle for hours during events, such as charter buses, public transit buses, limos, and utility trucks.
Venues, such as sports complexes, theaters, performing arts centers, convention centers, hotels, and other event locations, have traffic from a variety of drivers: semi-trucks, local delivery vehicles, charter buses, public transit buses, school buses, taxis, limos, utility trucks, and guests’ personal vehicles.
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Carefully planning or revising the traffic patterns around venues can greatly reduce the number of idling vehicles. However, there is a unique challenge to creating such policies because the responsible party is often an event planner who has rented that site for a single event, not the local, onsite venue staff. Therefore, it is important for venue staff to provide suggestions and reminders to clients on how to reduce each event’s environmental impact.
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In 2008, the Colorado Convention Center partnered with the City and County of Denver’s Department of Environmental Health to reduce onsite commercial vehicle idling through a social marketing pilot program. They were successful in reducing both the percent and duration of idling vehicles. Read the Idling Reduction Social Marketing Pilot Program Results and Summary Implications here.