How to Plan and Design your Road Event with OnePlan's free tools

Map and Plan your Road Events accurately in OnePlan! Collaborate with your colleagues and partners to create a safe event your competitors will love

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Plan a safe and successful Road Event for your athletes and attendees

OnePlan is a free, easy-to-use platform to plan a Road Event. 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 event objects and routes

Share your plan with anyone including colleagues, partners, local authorities and suppliers. Take the stress out of planning and design a successful and fun Road Event.

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How to design a Road Event

1

Add event details

Open OnePlan, and add the name and location of your Road Event.  

2

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 length of and time taken to walk, run or cycle your event route

3

Add objects

OnePlan’s ‘drag and drop’ tool lets you place items on your map easily. Select from hundreds of items for your Road Event, including  crowd management and social distancing calculators, and barriers and fencing

4

Share your plan

Simply click ‘Share’ to provide view-only or edit access to anyone you want. Your colleagues, local authorities, suppliers and any stakeholder you invite will receive an email to access your Road Event plan in OnePlan.

5

Real-time event reports

As you plan your Road Event , 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 road event 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 road event 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 event’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 road event that you can send to suppliers.

💡 Get the answers you need

Frequently Asked Questions

Road Event plans include:

  • A race route 
  • Adequate parking 
  • Toilet facilities
  • Crowd barriers, fencing and crowd management
  • Communications with local authorities and police
  • Sponsors
  • Wet weather precautions
  • Volunteers

Create a traffic management plan that plots the precise location of signage, stewards, temporary traffic signals, road closures, contraflows and diversion routes.

OnePlan gives you the power to accurately plot miles of crowd control barriers, geolocated and to scale. Customise the finest detail such as the dimensions of the barrier and automatically generate your barrier requirements which can then be exported to procure from suppliers.

"The benefits of using OnePlan will be felt immediately. Using OnePlan saves time and reduces costs, making triathlon events far easier to manage."

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Gergely Markus

World Triathlon

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