{"id":513272,"date":"2022-05-23T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T00:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&p=513272"},"modified":"2024-03-26T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:20:38","slug":"world-series","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/world-series","title":{"rendered":"Cobb County Secures World Series in Real Time"},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[457151,24982,211],"tags":[424992,472461,477952,479382],"arcuser_issues":[479252],"class_list":["post-513272","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-mission","category-end-notes","category-public-safety","tag-arcgis-dashboards","tag-arcuser","tag-real-time-awareness","tag-traffic-control","arcuser_issues-spring-2022"],"acf":{"short_description":"Cobb County, Georgia, used its extensive GIS resources to quickly plan a massive celebration of the Atlanta Braves win.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":513282,"file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","content":"By the time the World Series came to Cobb County, Georgia, in fall 2021, the technology and expertise demonstrated by the county staff orchestrating public safety couldn\u2019t help but win the attention of Major League Baseball\u2019s technical team."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cThey could walk into any conference room and with just a click, they could see dashboards with maps showing the location of security staff, live traffic, and 911 calls,\u201d said Jennifer Lana, GIS manager at Cobb County Government. \u201cThey hadn\u2019t seen dynamic data that was so accessible before.\u201d\r\n\r\nYet, as the Atlanta Braves took control of the seven-game series the week of November 1, 2021, and county officials wanted to plan for a massive victory celebration, preparations had to be delayed. There\u2019s a long-standing superstition in baseball that planning a celebration before the World Series concludes invites bad luck. So once Braves relief pitcher Will Smith\u2019s 97-miles-per-hour, four-seam fastball was grounded out to end game six and the series on November 2, officials in Cobb County, had only 35 hours to organize a party for 350,000 guests.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":513322,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Instantly Planning a Party<\/h2>\r\nIt had been a while since the Atlanta Braves had a world championship to celebrate. The last time was in 1995 when the team was in a different stadium and a different jurisdiction. Even though there were no set plans or knowledge about how to accommodate championship crowds, Cobb County\u2019s investment in sophisticated mapping and monitoring technology and staff have been tried and tested during big events. This includes the home games of professional baseball\u2019s National League Division Series, the National League Championship Series, the World Series, and security for the National Football League\u2019s 2019 Super Bowl game in Atlanta. This time the huge celebration would include a parade that would wind through downtown Atlanta and culminate at the Braves\u2019 home ballpark, Truist Park.\r\n\r\nJeremy \u201cJ.D.\u201d Lorens, a lieutenant in charge of traffic management at the Cobb County Police Department, was assigned to handle parade security using up-to-date maps and remote control of traffic lights. For home games at the ballpark, Lorens had already worked with a team of GIS specialists to apply mapping for crowd control, security, and traffic management. Lorens would need the same detailed maps\u2014outside the stadium\u2014to create the parade route.\r\n\r\nThe GIS team provided tools to help the Braves organization as well as state and county officials define and approve the route. Lorens gathered barricades that matched the narrow three-lane corridor he had mapped to reduce roadway width and put the crowd in proximity to players. \u201cI knew there would be families with little kids,\u201d he explained. \u201cI wanted to get them as close to the parade as possible.\u201d\r\n\r\nDuring the parade, GIS maps displayed the location of every officer along the route, allowing incident commanders to see the location of each asset in case of an emergency. The smooth operation of the parade allowed Lorens to craft an efficient plan for removing the barricades beginning when the procession was halfway through its route.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":513332,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Advanced Stadium Technology<\/h2>\r\nBefore Truist Park opened in 2017, Cobb County authorities invested in advanced traffic management technology to move fans quickly and easily to and from the ballpark. Truist Park is located near the intersection of two interstate highways, and authorities wanted to ensure that the stadium location lessened rather than added to Atlanta\u2019s traffic congestion.\r\n\r\nLorens oversees traffic management at the ballpark and runs the control center with live feeds of 70 cameras monitoring pathways and The Battery Atlanta, an entertainment district. There are 30 more cameras at critical intersections. GIS allows Lorens and the team to visualize the location and condition of every traffic light and camera. Using these inputs and controls, he and his officers synchronize the flow of vehicle and pedestrian traffic during regular games.\r\n\r\nCobb County\u2019s Public Safety departments regularly use GIS dashboards and data to ensure public safety. These seasoned GIS users trust and know how to use the data, maps, and dashboards and have seen how location intelligence helps them. These trained users then became the trainers as more personnel were added during the playoff run.\r\n\r\nFor the 2021 World Series games, the number of police officers for a typical game was doubled to handle the larger crowds and longer hours. Officers were organized into three main groups: inside the stadium, traffic and operations, and overall campus security. The groups relied on GIS for real-time information and communication.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe normally see 40,000 people in the stadium and another 5,000 people in The Battery,\u201d Lorens said. \u201cFor the World Series games, we had 100,000 people on a 100-acre footprint, and we saw traffic start at 11:00 a.m. for a 7:00 p.m. game.\u201d\r\n\r\nLocation is also critical for the county\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> system used to analyze foot traffic from the video feeds. GIS and AI technologies combine to inform changes in traffic-light sequences to keep people and vehicles flowing.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have 50 different datasets on the map from the footprint of the stadium, all the businesses, the lights and cameras, the traffic data feed, 911 calls, traffic from Uber and Lyft rideshares, and the location of Cobb County vehicles,\u201d Lana said. \u201cWe have built that awareness over time, so we didn\u2019t have to change much for the World Series, but there were modifications.\u201d\r\n\r\nLorens has learned that each game has a distinct traffic pattern, and he developed specific maps for day versus night games or weekday versus weekend games. When it came to the playoffs though, he could not count on prior predictability.\r\n\r\n\u201cOnce you get to a championship series, it doesn\u2019t matter what day the game falls on, because everyone takes off work,\u201d Lorens said. \u201cYou go to the most robust map you have, and you use that.\u201d\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":513342,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Dashboards and Real-Time Tracking<\/h2>\r\nHaving a well-provisioned stadium security setup has helped Cobb County deal with the unanticipated nature of professional baseball planning. As the team worked its way through the playoffs, each subsequent win and series ratcheted up interest and attendance at the games.\r\n\r\nThe primary GIS toolset Cobb County relied on included ArcGIS Mission, which tracked the location of roving plainclothes officers working throughout The Battery. With command and control software, the incident commanders in the operations center could make tactical resource assignments and get real-time updates from the field, then share information across teams. The fact that the app could be accessed on a smartphone was key to the stealth requirements of the operation.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":513352,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cUndercover officers are in a unique situation because they don\u2019t have radios,\u201d Lana said. \u201cBut everyone on the planet has a smartphone, and nobody is going to think twice about someone looking at a map on their phone. On the app, officers could see each other and where a dangerous situation was happening, and in the command center we knew no officer could get lost in the crowds.\u201d\r\n\r\nOther smartphone features also came in handy. \u201cOur analysts,\u201d Lorens said, \u201ccould look up a license plate tag or provide background information. When it\u2019s just a text, that can get siloed between two people, and here everybody was able to see it and add to it if needed.\u201d\r\n

Putting the Wraps on a Stellar Season<\/h2>\r\nFor Cobb County\u2019s World Series games, the use of ArcGIS Mission was tactical, guiding public safety response to incidents involving unruly behavior. \u201cThere were a lot of drunk people everywhere,\u201d Lana said. \u201cEach time the Braves won, the crowds got bigger and crazier.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor Lorens and his public safety team, a map was key to keeping control of rowdy situations. \u201cWe were able to see where our people are and put them in places so everybody else saw them,\u201d he said. \u201cFor commanders, we could make sure we had coverage so that nothing critical happened.\u201d\r\n\r\nLorens and his team applied GIS in a more integrated way for the victory parade. To ensure safety and ease traffic disruptions, the ability to track officers and floats in real time was critical. This is an operational methodology that the county will employ moving forward. \u201cNow we\u2019ve got a blueprint,\u201d Lana said.\r\n\r\nLorens added, \u201cI plan to build out the map of where we had bottlenecks and where we responded with more staff, and I\u2019ll keep that in my back pocket.\u201d\r\n\r\nWith the Braves\u2019 core of young standout players, fans in and around Atlanta hope there will be cause for another World Series and parade, another opportunity for Cobb County officials to demonstrate their championship crowd expertise. But considering the age-old baseball custom against preplanning for victory, they won\u2019t put plans in motion too far ahead."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"\nWorld Series celebration managed with GIS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cobb County, Georgia, used its extensive GIS resources to quickly plan a massive celebration of the Atlanta Braves win and handle huge crowds using real time monitoring and field apps to ensure attendees were safe.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/world-series\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cobb County Secures World Series in Real Time\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cobb County, Georgia, used its extensive GIS resources to quickly plan a massive celebration of the Atlanta Braves win and handle huge crowds using real time monitoring and field apps to ensure attendees were safe.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/world-series\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Esri\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-26T21:20:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2022\/05\/worldseries_banner2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Esri\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\n\t \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t \"@graph\": [\n\t {\n\t \"@type\": \"WebPage\",\n\t \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/world-series\",\n\t \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/world-series\",\n\t \"name\": \"World Series celebration managed with GIS\",\n\t \"isPartOf\": {\n\t \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#website\"\n\t },\n\t \"datePublished\": \"2022-05-24T00:26:25+00:00\",\n\t \"dateModified\": \"2024-03-26T21:20:38+00:00\",\n\t \"description\": \"Cobb County, Georgia, used its extensive GIS resources to quickly plan a massive celebration of the Atlanta Braves win and handle huge crowds using real time monitoring and field apps to ensure attendees were safe.\",\n\t \"breadcrumb\": {\n\t \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/world-series#breadcrumb\"\n\t },\n\t \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t \"potentialAction\": [\n\t {\n\t \"@type\": \"ReadAction\",\n\t \"target\": [\n\t \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/world-series\"\n\t ]\n\t }\n\t ]\n\t },\n\t {\n\t \"@type\": \"BreadcrumbList\",\n\t \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/world-series#breadcrumb\",\n\t \"itemListElement\": [\n\t {\n\t \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t \"position\": 1,\n\t \"name\": \"Home\",\n\t \"item\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\"\n\t },\n\t {\n\t \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t \"position\": 2,\n\t \"name\": \"Cobb County Secures World Series in Real Time\"\n\t }\n\t ]\n\t },\n\t {\n\t \"@type\": \"WebSite\",\n\t \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#website\",\n\t \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/\",\n\t \"name\": \"Esri\",\n\t \"description\": \"Esri Newsroom\",\n\t \"potentialAction\": [\n\t {\n\t \"@type\": \"SearchAction\",\n\t \"target\": {\n\t \"@type\": \"EntryPoint\",\n\t \"urlTemplate\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}\"\n\t },\n\t \"query-input\": {\n\t \"@type\": \"PropertyValueSpecification\",\n\t \"valueRequired\": true,\n\t \"valueName\": \"search_term_string\"\n\t }\n\t }\n\t ],\n\t \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\"\n\t },\n\t {\n\t \"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/82e5143bcdebadf8fd64d84e503ca468\",\n\t \"name\": \"Monica Pratt\",\n\t \"image\": {\n\t \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\n\t \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MonicaMug_agol2.jpg\",\n\t \"contentUrl\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MonicaMug_agol2.jpg\",\n\t \"caption\": \"Monica Pratt\"\n\t },\n\t \"description\": \"Monica Pratt is the founding and current editor of ArcUser magazine, the executive editor of ArcNews magazine, the editor of Esri Globe and head of the Publications team at Esri. 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