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Title:

Monitoring Visitor Flow and Behavior During a Festival: the Mysteryland Case Study

Accession Number:

01623106

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

More and more people visit mass events, while also the number of mass events is increasing. However, the choice behavior of visitors during these mass events is not yet well known. To get insight into this behavior, 109 visitors of Mysteryland (a Dutch dance festival with 60,000 visitors) have carried a global positioning system (GPS) tracker during their stay at the event terrain and filled in a survey afterwards. Using the trajectories from the GPS trackers and the survey answers, the authors have identified the personal characteristics of the visitors and determined their route and activity choice behavior during the festival, including the effects of these choices on the use of the infrastructure and the facilities (such as the stages). A GPS tracker in combination with demographic information and information on visitor behavior through a survey has proven to be a valuable tool to get insight into visitor behavior during festivals. This research will be followed up in 2016 to get a larger sample and more detailed information on the choices for the performances and stages visitors attend.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Standing Committee on Pedestrians. Alternate title: Monitoring Visitor Flow and Behavior During a Festival: Mysteryland Case Study

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-03242

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Daamen, Winnie
Kinkel, Erica
Duives, Dorine
Hoogendoorn, Serge P

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Festivals

Geographic Terms:

Netherlands

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-03242

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 11:12AM