The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in Doha, Qatar, stands as a landmark case study in smart mobility, AI, and infrastructure strategies for mega-events. Unlike traditional multi-city tournaments, Qatar’s small geographic area required unprecedented strategies to manage over 1.4 million visitors over the 29-day event without disrupting the country’s normal operations. This work examines how Qatar successfully implemented a technology-driven transportation strategy, leveraging adaptive metro scheduling, AI-powered traffic management, and dynamic crowd-flow optimization to ensure seamless mobility. Key innovations included major bus fleet expansion synchronized with a smart metro network, IoT-enabled traffic corridors prioritizing emergency vehicles, and unified digital platforms for visitor navigation. The work describes how temporary and long-term infrastructure was designed for long-term urban benefit, converting pop-up transit lanes into permanent smart corridors and re-purposing command centers for ongoing city management. The study identifies three critical success factors for future mega-events: preemptive deployment of scalable smart technologies, infrastructure adaptable to both peak event demand and legacy use, and integrated governance frameworks that enable real-time cross-agency coordination.
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Khaled Shaaban
Florida Polytechnic University
Mohamed A. Adalbi
Qatar University
Procedia Computer Science
Qatar University
Florida Polytechnic University
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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2117dfd499ed480b170bdb — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2026.04.028