Transportation, Logistics and People Management for Sustainable Olympic Games
In the present day, it would seem difficult to find someone who doesn’t know of the Olympic Games. Since their origins in Ancient Greece, they have brought together an incredible diversity of people in a peaceful, yet competitive celebration of shared humanity.
Hosting the Olympic Games today is synonym with construction, renovation and expansion. Countries thus take advantage of the unique opportunity of housing the world’s brightest athletes and their numerous supporters, to reinvent their city, region or country. Transportation, Logistics and People Management planning, for instance, is a main component of the Games, contributing to key decisions on the location of venues, official entry points, total capacity and traffic management.
While the Olympic Games have often been seen as a transient object, there is a growing need to redefine the consumption of the Games and put them at the service of the host country. Thus the Olympic transport network in particular is not conceived to be an object of greed but a process in time that meets the needs of the host country. It is an opportunity to respond in an innovative, responsible and sustainable way to the problems of the region concerned, but also of the 21st century world’s society.
It is in light of these values that we want to assemble tomorrow’s actors and thinkers, represented by students with whom the messages of diversity of thought and trade will echo. In a team-based competition mimicking the spirit of the Games themselves, interdisciplinary participants will have twenty-four hours to realize what each one can bring to the project while the clock keeps ticking.