How to Plan and Design your Marathon with OnePlan's free road-event tools
Map and Plan your Marathon accurately in OnePlan! Collaborate with your colleagues and partners to create a successful race day for everyone.
Plan a safe and successful Marathon for your attendees.
OnePlan is a free, easy-to-use platform to plan a Marathon. It combines the best characteristics of CAD with up-to-date mapping technology. Choose from high definition satellite and aerial maps, and select from hundreds of Marathon objects.
Share your plan with anyone including colleagues, partners, security services and suppliers. Take the stress out of planning and design a Marathon that your attendees will love.
How to design a Marathon
Add event details
Open OnePlan, and add the name and location of your Marathon.
Draw out your areas
In the Areas & Routes menu, select any route type and draw it out on the map. You’ll instantly see the distance in meters, or feet, as your draw
Add objects
OnePlan’s ‘drag and drop’ tool lets you place items on your map easily. Select from hundreds of items for your Marathon including vehicles, crowd management and social distancing calculators, route measuring tools and more.
Share your plan
Simply click ‘Share’ to provide view-only or edit access to anyone you want. Your colleagues, partners, suppliers and any stakeholder you invite will receive an email to access your Marathon plan in OnePlan.
Real-time event reports
As you plan your Marathon, go to your dashboard reports in OnePlan to view your inventory and send a Bill of Quantities to your suppliers.
Created by event professionals
Our team of experienced event organizers have thought of everything your Marathon needs to be a success. Easily position any item on your event plan with pinpoint accuracy and move it as you wish.
Free access to a professional solution
In OnePlan it’s totally free to plan your Marathon and you have access to professional quality tools covering everything you need. This includes the latest maps, hundreds of items to choose from, arrival and exit calculators, traffic management tools, placing workforce and so much more.
Powerful event intelligence
Access your Marathon’s dashboard in OnePlan and view real-time information of everything to do with your event plan. In one click download a Bill of Quantities about your Marathon that you can send to suppliers.
💡 Get the answers you need
Frequently Asked Questions
Marathon plans include:
- A detailed route map
- Crowd management, barriers, and fencing
- Volunteers – lots of them!
- Food and drink stalls
- Police
- Planned road closures
Share your event plan with suppliers, police, and local authorities well before your marathon date, to ensure road closures can be arranged, and traffic diverted to cater for a safe and non-disruptive marathon.
Don’t forget about spectrators! Whisl the event is for runners, there will be far more people cheering on their friends and family! Set up catering vans and concessions along the course, and ensure a clear entrance and exit flow calculation at any given point of the race. Track volunteers and marshalls live location and report live incidents using OnePlan’s dot planning tools.
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