Interactive Transporting and Accessibility Planning of Sports Events' Cities in Egypt, Port Said City as a Model

Abstract

: INTRODUCTION: Global sports events witness progress in their organization and in their public and tourist turnout for their host country and require developing its infrastructure. Due to the huge presence of athletes and public and tourist masses, transportation networks of sports cities face hard challenges of achieving the ease of accessibility within a short period of time during the opening and closing seasons of sports events. OBJECTIVES: presenting a proposal for facilitating tourist and public arrivals to the sports, archaeological, and tourist sites, developing sports cities and transforming them to smart cities via interactive and electronic management of traffic. METHODOLOGY: The study is analytic in its approach and has used the modeling of Network Analyst in the environment of GIS. The study is applied to Port Said city due to its small area that fits precisely with the objective of the study. RESULTS: The study presented interactive modeling that enables electronic guidance for vehicles, interactive display of the map of street directions, traffic fluidity to reduce the rates of congestions, interactively limiting speeds on the highways, providing fans with queries regarding the accessibility to sports, archaeological, and tourist sites in addition to providing expeditions, facilitating and securing their movements inside Port Said city. CONCLUSION: Implementing interactive transportation systems is considered an initiative that depends on digital and spatial management of sports events in light of the state's orientation towards digital transformation. With its results, the study draws the attention of officials to Port Said city so as to pay attention to the city's transportation systems to qualify her to be among the international smart cities, and hopefully, the scope of this study will include all sports cities.