Simulation of Fans Leaving the new Coface Arena in Mainz

This visualization shows part of the simulations done during the planning process for the Coface Arena -- the new soccer stadium for the city of Mainz. The project was done in 2009.

Planning had already progressed when the planners of the city's Stadtplanungsamt decided to build a simulation model as a check especially for the situation when a sold-out game ends during Tuesday afternoon rush hour. The simulation shows a scenario where the fans leave the stadium quickly after the end of the match (peaked demand) and a large share of them leaves by public transport. For the focus and in the perspective of the planning project this can be considered as "worst case".

The VISSIM simulations confirmed most results of the planning so far, but it also suggested some modifications such as increasing the number of outbound public service buses or widening parts of the walkway. These suggestions were integrated in the planning and realized on site.

For details see the following publication (in German language):
Mayer-Zawar, Schomborg und Schroeders: „Fußgängersimulationsmodell zum Bau eines multifunktionalen Stadions in Mainz" Seite 526-533, Straßenverkehrstechnik, Jg.: 53, Nr.8, 2009. http://www.baufachinformation.de/zeitschriftenartikel.jsp?z=2009099006551

Finally some technical information: the visualization most of the time runs with twice real speed, but at times the displayed speed is six-fold and parts have been cut. In total between the visualization stretches over about one hour of real time.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• PTV
• PTV Vision
• VISSIM
• VISWALK
• Pedestrian Simulation
• Coface Arena
• Mainz
• Public transport
• Stadium
• Arena
• crowd simulation
• traffic
• simulation

[Katerchen1983]

gut zu wissen wie alles ablaufen soll nachem spiel und gut zu wissen wie weit ich laufen muss XD