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transportation impact criteria: (1) eventmust last no longer than one day and (2)street closures will be less than fourhours and limited in scope.• Palo Alto, CA (pop. 58,598) developedthree street use event impact classificationsbased on the spatial characteristicsof proposed street closures. The streetuse event categories are:o Class A – A celebration, parade, localspecial event, festival, meeting,procession, concert, rally, march, orany similar occurrence which exceedsone city block in length or obstructsmore than one intersection,whether or not such occurrence ismoving.o Class B – A Class A closure or ablock party of any similar occurrencenot exceeding one city block or oneintersection on other than arterial orcollector streets, and along which atleast two-thirds of the area is in aresidential zone.o Class C – A local special event orsimilar occurrence involving the display,exhibition, advertisement, orsale of merchandise, etc., upon a portionof the public sidewalk. Cannotexceed 50% of width of sidewalk.Venue Transportation Management PlanDeploymentStakeholders often develop transportationmanagement plans specific to a permanentvenue, such as a stadium, arena, or amphitheater.Development of site access andparking plans usually occur during venueconstruction. Transportation agencies andlaw enforcement may develop traffic controlplans, based on a generic or recurring event,for managing transportation operations onstreets adjacent to the venue and/or corridorsserving the venue during future planned specialevents. These program planning activitiesdo not focus on a single, known plannedspecial event. Therefore, stakeholders mustestablish transportation management plandeployment thresholds to ensure availabilityand placement of adequate resources tomaintain satisfactory site and transportationoperations during any future planned specialevent occurring at the venue.• The parking and transportation managementplan for Investco Field in Denvercontains separate traffic managementand operations plans, categorized underfour attendance scenarios, for futureplanned special events occurring at thevenue: (6)o Sold-out Denver Broncos (football)games.o Other large events with an attendanceof more than 60,000.o Medium events with an attendancebetween 40,000 and 59,000.o Small events with an attendance between20,000 and 39,000.The traffic management and operationsplans for each scenario vary based on:(1) event patron modal split prediction,(2) site parking lot usage, (3) InvestcoField transit service, and (4) level of personneland equipment resources for trafficcontrol in the vicinity of InvestcoField.Regional Traffic Operations Impact LevelThe State of Wisconsin and the City of LosAngeles assign event impact levels for aproposed planned special event:• The organization of the Traffic IncidentManagement Enhancement (TIME) programin southeastern Wisconsin includesa 40-plus agency Freeway IncidentManagement Team responsible for pro-2-12