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EXPO.02 Strategic and operational Transport Concept

The swiss national exhibition took place in the year 2002 from may to october. Especially the cities of Biel, Neuenburg, Yverdon and Murten with their exhibition places and installations had to deal with peaks of about 180’00 vistors per day. In total more than 10.5 million visitors took the chance to visit the exhibition sites.

Emch+Berger did the overall transport concept and used state of the art modelling and simulation tools to estimate the traffic impacts of the calculated daily transport demand. The results were used to plan measures and optimize traffic during the exhibition time and to develop an effective transport management. The measures were developed with respect to increase the public transport share and avoid motorized individual trips. As a result the modal split of the EXPO.02 visitors was 65%;30% (public transport; motorized individual travel).

Lieu
Switzerland National Exhibition
Client
EXPO.02 authority
Période
1998
2002
Domaines d'activité
Infrastructure;Regional development & urban planning
Nos prestations
transport demand modelling
traffic simulation
transport concept
transport management
development of special measures, recommendations
Caractéristiques
visitors: >10.5 Mio
overall budget EXPO.02: 1.45 Mia CHF
max. visitors /day: 180’000
modal split: 65% public 30% individual