The Hong Kong Police Force has launched an AI-powered website to help people leave the Kai Tak Sports Park.
A stress test participant scans the “Easy Leave” QR code to get real-time information on exit routes on Sunday, February 16, 2025, at the Kai Tak sports facility. Photo: HKPF.
The website was tested when around 50,000 civil servants and residents took part in another stress test at the facility on Sunday. The venue is set to open on March 1.
“The platform facilitates the spectators to choose the most suitable route to leave the venue by providing the real-time information on the crowd density and time required of each exit route,” a police press release said on Sunday. “This helps alleviate pressure on public transport and crowd flows during the dispersal of large-scale events, as well as ensuring public safety.”
The HK$30 billion park – the largest sporting infrastructure ever built in Hong Kong – will provide a “new experience” of sports, leisure, and consumption to residents and tourists, the city’s Chief Secretary Eric Chan said last week.
Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Sports Park holds its first test event on October 27, 2024. Photo: GovHK.
An opening ceremony will be held in the park’s 50,000-seat main stadium and feature performances that demonstrate the history of Kai Tak and the development of sports in Hong Kong, Chan said.
The ceremony, jointly organised by the government and operator Kai Tak Sports Park Ltd, will begin at 6.30pm on March 1 and last for around one-and-a-half hours.
Since last October, the Hong Kong government, which footed the bill for the construction, has organised about 15 drills at three different facilities in the Kai Tak Sports Park, including an event in the main stadium last week with 50,000 people attending to test the facility’s full capacity.
Construction of the 28-hectare sports park began in 2019. It consists of three main venues: the Kai Tak Stadium; the indoor Kai Tak Arena, with a seating capacity of up to 10,000; and the Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground, with 5,000 seats.
