{"id":18211,"date":"2017-11-20T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T17:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=18211"},"modified":"2022-04-03T19:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T02:22:22","slug":"chicago-adds-real-time-awareness","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/chicago-adds-real-time-awareness","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Adds Real-time Awareness to Manage the Marathon"},"author":941,"featured_media":18291,"parent":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":[81,1051],"tags":[1371,1361,1351,111],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478402],"esri_blog_department":[478242],"class_list":["post-18211","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capability","category-real-time-gis","tag-common-operating-picture","tag-event-management","tag-portal-for-arcgis","tag-real-time","esri-blog-category-event-management","esri_blog_department-public-safety"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"Connecting Chicago\u2019s Emergency Operations Center to real-time runner locations on the course helps the Chicago Marathon run smoothly.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":null,"file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<em>Feeds from Runners Convey Up-to-date Details About the Course<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Key Takeaways\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Real-time awareness of the course helps inform and guide public safety response and resources.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>GIS helps paint the picture decision makers need for improved community safety.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>The city of Chicago continues to increase its use of GIS to manage major special events.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Runners love the Chicago Marathon for its mix of raucous urban canyons filled with cheering fans, and quiet and colorful leafy side streets. Chicagoans are always into an event, with a lot of fun-loving people turning out to encourage the runners and keep them smiling through the pain. The course also runs flat and fast, which brings many new runners who are reaching for their personal record. It\u2019s one of six World Marathon Majors, and world records have been broken there four times.\r\n\r\nThe 40<sup>th<\/sup> Bank of America Chicago Marathon took place this year on Sunday, Oct. 8. The race is capped at 45,000 runners, and this year, according to the race website, 44,508 finished the race, with 1.7 million spectators. The elite runners add to the spectacle, with $500,000 in prize money on the line.\r\n\r\nThis year\u2019s event took place just seven days after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. In addition, the bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon is always in the back of every marathoner\u2019s mind. As the first World Marathon Major after Boston, Chicago had already substantially augmented its security plan for the 2013 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, and continues to make adjustments to it from year-to-year. Given this backdrop, community safety and security efforts were increased this year, with the City of Chicago adding real-time sensor feeds to their event awareness.\r\n\r\nChicago\u2019s Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) added runner locations to their shared map by linking to live data from the timing mats on the course that collect data from the RFID chips each runner wears. This was made possible via a partnership with Bank of America that provided key course details and helped the city coordinate with a chip time vendor and Esri Professional Services to make this happen.\r\n\r\nRunner awareness provides great insight into what\u2019s happening where, as the race progresses. In the past, there have been several situations where runner awareness would have proven helpful on race day. Last year, a hostage\/barricade incident unfolded a block off the course. An incident on a bridge several years ago caused the race to be re-routed. Both scenarios were handled quickly and effectively, but knowing where the runners were on the course would have helped spread awareness and assurances to all, and a more coordinated response.\r\n\r\nProjecting the location of runners, along with details about the location of personnel and assets, on a map that was available on computers and devices as well as projected on a large screen in the OEMC gave all the first responders a common and current understanding of the race status.\r\n\r\n\u201cMy leadership [Executive Director Alicia Tate-Nadeau] has an expectation,\u201d Thomas Sivak, deputy director of the OEMC, said. \u201cShe wants to come into the room informed and not have to ask a single question to know what\u2019s going on.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":18351,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Coordinated Force<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn light of the recent mass shooting, the Chicago Police Department increased its presence, alongside a heightened presence from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Illinois State Police (ISP), and other agencies and nonprofits. That\u2019s a lot of activity for OEMC to coordinate.\r\n\r\n\u201cChicago is a special event-driven city, and this is one of our biggest events of the year,\u201d Sivak said. \u201cWe have worked hard to establish a common operating picture to support our decision-making processes. Adding a real-time awareness of runners helps us know the size and complexity of any incident, and helps us manage the consequences.\u201d\r\n\r\nGiven the 26.2-mile length of a marathon, most marathons take place across many jurisdictions. In Chicago, the entire course is contained within the city. This makes it easier to get every city department on the same page regarding all the details of the event. A geographic information system (GIS) is central to this effort, with Web-based forms for each department to input details about personnel, their posts, and the assets each agency deploys.\r\n\r\n\u201cData accuracy and availability continue to increase, because people see the benefit when it\u2019s all displayed at the mapping endpoint,\u201d said Joe Kezon, GIS manager at the OEMC. \u201cRather than going to a paper document to understand where officers are deployed, they can query and see it all on a map to gain a visual perspective.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe OEMC is where the city\u2019s police, fire, and emergency medical service are all integrated in one dispatch system, and where all aspects of Chicago\u2019s emergency services are coordinated. The OEMC also contains the Traffic Management Authority,\u00a0which deploys traffic control aides to work with CPD to ensure participant, spectator and motorist safety along the route. In addition, the OEMC\u2019s Public Safety Information Technology Section, along with the City\u2019s Operations Center, monitors thousands of CCTV cameras throughout the city. The GIS acts as a central integration point to provide overall situational awareness.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have to remember that GIS is not mapping,\u201d Sivak said. \u201cThat\u2019s just a piece of it. It\u2019s the data inputs and the outputs, and the coordination that takes place on the backend that paints the picture and helps us with our decision process.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe shared view that GIS provides, combined with rehearsed scenarios, means that everyone knows what to do, with the added assurance that everyone knows where you are and what you\u2019re dealing with.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s always beneficial to think about how I would use it,\u201d Kezon said. \u201cI think it would be a great thing for bike paramedic teams to see where they\u2019re being dispatched, and the information associated.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":18341,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Real-time Understanding <\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe City of Chicago has prior experience displaying real-time data in their GIS for a high-level security event. In May 2012, the city hosted the NATO Summit. For that event, the federal agencies saw Chicago\u2019s system and decided to rely on it, and integrate with it, rather than send all their GIS data and people to the event.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe were able to display the GPS location for each of our Chicago Police Department officers, and we integrated the FBI\u2019s Blue Force Tracker system to see where everyone was deployed,\u201d Kezon noted.\r\n\r\nThis real-time component was a first for the city. Since then, the city has increasingly relied on GIS for major special events. They have added a link to all the city\u2019s cameras to see live video feeds. They\u2019ve also been eager to add to their real-time awareness.\r\n\r\nIn preparation for every event, the city gathers data from the event organizer as well as plans and personnel from each department. GIS data is displayed, along with geofences that trigger when things enter or exit the event area. The geofences are also used to display and send to the OEMC only the 911 calls within the event area."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":18331,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Always Evolving <\/strong>\r\n\r\nAt the OEMC officials are thinking about a quick response as much as they\u2019re thinking about the recovery and aftermath of each incident.\r\n\r\n\u201cI knew fully that if I looked at Joe and asked him to turn on a layer of data, that he would find it and bring it over so that we wouldn\u2019t lose any ground,\u201d Sivak said.\r\n\r\nIf an incident involved the need for shelters, a data layer could quickly be added to show the location and capacity of each of the city\u2019s emergency shelters. If an incident required a strong local response, a data layer of staging areas could be added and shared with nearby personnel who would then concentrate the needed equipment closer to the incident.\r\n\r\nHaving a record of what happened where and when proves useful after the event to examine any incidents for future improvement. It\u2019s also a crucial piece if an incident reaches the level where briefings to executive leadership and chief elected officials become necessary. The OEMC used a story map to capture this detail on a regular basis. The Story Map records information in a way that can be scrolled and clicked to uncover details, and to understand the response as an incident evolved.\r\n\r\n\u201cOur top-end site is for the marathon, but we have events that happen every single weekend,\u201d Sivak said. \u201cWe want to do more. We have to adapt on the fly, track things appropriately, and capture information to mold our response to every situation.\u201d\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLearn more about Esri\u2019s solutions for creating <a href=\"http:\/\/go.esri.com\/safecommunities?adumkts=industry_solutions&amp;aduse=public_safety&amp;aduin=public_safety&amp;aduc=advertising&amp;adum=blogs&amp;utm_Source=other&amp;aduca=m17Safe_Communities&amp;aduco=esri_blog_chicago_marathon&amp;adut=11162017&amp;aducp=smartcommunities&amp;adupt=safe\">Safe Communities<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis\/products\/geoevent-server\">ArcGIS GeoEvent Server<\/a> that allows you to monitor your most valuable assets on a map in real time for better decision making at any moment."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<strong>Fast Facts Sidebar<\/strong>\r\n\r\nHere are some interesting facts about this year\u2019s race gleaned from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagomarathon.com\/\">race website<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThis year more women ages 25-34 finished than at any other marathon. Women made up 44 percent of the runners this year, compared to 5 percent forty years ago.\r\n\r\nThe race brings $219 million in economic impact to the city of Chicago, with runners and their families filling hotel rooms, local restaurants, and stores. The event also focuses on charity fundraising, with more than $15M raised each of the past five years for various causes.\r\n\r\nThis year\u2019s winners were:\r\n\r\n<em>Women\u2019s Division<\/em>: Tirunesh Dibaba from Ethiopia won with a time of 2:18:31. The women\u2019s record is 2:17:18, set in 2002 by Paula Radcliffe from the UK, which was a world record at the time.\r\n\r\n<em>Men\u2019s Division<\/em>: Galen Rupp from the United States won with a time of 2:09:20, marking the first win by a US runner since 2002. The men\u2019s record is 2:03:45, set in 2013 by Dennis Kimetto from Kenya.","snippet":""}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chicago Adds Real-time Awareness to Manage the Marathon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Connecting Chicago\u2019s Emergency Operations Center to real-time runner locations on the course helps the Chicago Marathon run smoothly.\" \/>\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\/blog\/chicago-adds-real-time-awareness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chicago Adds Real-time Awareness to Manage the Marathon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" 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