Transport Department

TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT

1. KEY STATISTICS ATHENS 2011 - the Transport Task - Key dimensions Quantit Description Remarks y Number of Public Buses 250 Daily, during peakdays (26 & 28 June) Number of Tourist buses 322 Daily on peak day (4 July) Delegations members, Families, ASFs & MVPs, Number of Passengers at peak 22.500 Technical Officials & Technical delegates, Torch runners, volunteers Total number of bus trips 14.500 This includes the Host Town Program Total number of kilometers driven 720.000 This includes the Torch run buses Car Depots 2 One in Goudi and the 2nd at Hellinikon Car fleet 321 4 door sedans and 9 seater minivans Total number of kilometers driven 536.000 This includes the Torch run minibuses Volunteer drivers (cars & minivans) 760 Volunteers bus officers 350 Vollunteers transport assistants at the In 48 Competition and non-competition Venues Venues 594 Total number of volunteers 1.704 Total number of paid staff 69 In 50 Competition and non-competition Venues

2. HIGHLIGHTS The public buses of OASA (Athens Public Transport organization) were used only for the daily transportation of Delegations between their accommodation sites and the competition Venue, during the duration of the competition schedule.

The Tourist buses were used for the transportation of Delegations and various other client groups during the phases of Arrival/departures, the Host Town program, the opening & closing ceremonies, for shuttles between Venues, volunteer’s shuttles and for various other scheduled and nonscheduled transfers.

Two major Transport Malls were staged, one at OAKA and the 2nd at Hellinikon, holding 120 and 60 buses respectively during peaks. Transport malls were also staged at the major accommodation sites (SOVs)

The fleet of cars was used as follows:

 170 cars with drivers (two shifts) assigned to each one of the participating delegations (to the HODs)

 20 luxury cars (sedans & SUVs) with drivers (two shifts) assigned to 20 select T1 ASFs

 46 Sedans with drivers (two shifts) assigned to the remainder of T1 ASFs(car assignment determined by SOI)

 4 sedans assigned to SOI as a motor pool for the transfers of SOI employees

 40 sedans were used as a motor pool for the ASFs with T2 transport privilege

 22 cars were assigned to sports & Venues for the transfers of Int’l TO’s & TD’s from/to their accommodation sites and the Competition Venues.

3. FAs MAJOR ISSUES & RECOMMENDATIONS

N Issue Description Recommendation o 1 Ceremonies Venue at the city Centre, being totally Select a Venue that reside, preferably, inside a unsuitable for large scale of Transport Operations complex, having its own dedicated surrounding road network with multiple entry/exit accesses to main (urban) road network 2 Multitude of Accommodation sites (total 26 – 6 Limit the number of Accommodation sites as much camps & 20 hotels) dispersed throughout a large as possible (ideally to one) and ensure they are geographical area(Attica county) positioned as close as possible. Also ensure that accesses and loading areas are suitable for buses 3 Level of services for ASFs was finalized (with SOI) Determine and agree the level of services to ASFs in reality hours before the Games Time operations with SOI, as well as their involvement in the actual commenced operations, at least six months out. 4 Signage & transport materials (barricades, cones Ensure that the necessary budgets for Transport etc) reached the involved venues upon start (or materials are approved at least six months out and even after, in some venues) of operation, due to that the materials are in place at least 10 days late budget approval before the start of operations

4. MAJOR ISSUES WITH OTHER FAs

N Functional Area Issue Description o 1 Sports& Venues Competition schedule finalized almost upon start of Competition! This affected adversely bus routings and created delays at the start of operations 2 Volunteers Lack of drivers for the car fleet. This resulted in trying to compensate the lack of department drivers, to ask DALs to also act as drivers. Also the very much needed 3rd shift was impossible to organize and instead we had a small number of drivers that worked longer hours.

5. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

1. The Transport task – Key dimensions xls

2. Games Transportation – HOD seminar