Issues involved with the staging of short-term special events, including regulatory concerns, transportation systems management (tsm), crowd control, carbon monoxide (co) incidents, and economics, areexamined. Five of these events in the twin cities metropolitan areaof minneapolis and st. Paul are then investigated. Although tsm efforts can improve traffic flow during special events, the unplanned nature of some of these events, lack of integrated interjurisdictional coordination, and perceived financial benefits lead to co incidents. Impacts of these incidents may be felt areawide and have economicand policy costs not usually considered. Therefore, special effortsneed to be made to control the impacts of these events on air quality levels. This paper appears in transportation research record no. 1312, Energy and environmental issues 1991.
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