Balancing the peak and off-peak travel demands towards cemeteries and columbaria

Abstract

Special events attract extraordinarily high travel demands within a relative short period of time. Managing those travel demands is more critical than that for normal commuting trips since the high demands usually induce more severe impacts to local traffic. The impacts vary amongst different special events due to the difference in their natures. Unlike most of the special events like concerts or football matches that have a fixed date and time, the visitors to grave-sweeping could choose their available date and time to visit around the festival dates. Therefore, the policy measures suggested to manage the demand for other special events in the previous researches ...