T in the Park boss Geoff Ellis said he felt vindicated by his new choice of site, despite major traffic problems throughout the weekend.
Organisers were bombarded with complaints from furious fans after late-night chaos in mud-swamped car parks led to lengthy tailbacks and up to five-hour delays at the Strathallan Estate.
As confusion reigned, young revellers were left stranded in the dark and forced to trudge along rural roads to reach pick-up points.
On Sunday afternoon, a young man was knocked down by a double-decker bus in a designated coach lane on the edge of the site. The accident happened at 3pm on Station Road, Muthil. He was taken to hospital but his condition is not known.
Promoters DF Concerts issued apologies over the weekend as the traffic problems threatened to overshadow the show’s packed line-up of top acts, including a headline set last night by former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher.
The music extravaganza was being held at Perthshire’s 1,100-acre Strathallan Estate for the first time after health and safety fears forced it out of Balado.
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Perth and Kinross Council granted consent for the show after a prolonged planning process focusing on traffic management and protected ospreys.
Mr Ellis said: “We apologise for the delays and poor experience for our customers. Obviously this is not the way we wanted to end the festival.
“It’s been a great, positive experience for all the fans throughout the weekend and we didn’t want to finish on a bad note.
“At Balado we had 18 years of infrastructure which we had put in there and I think people got used to the fact that traffic flowed very, very quickly.
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“This is the first year on this site, so it was always going to be harder.”
Mr Ellis said people walking to an unofficial campsite had exacerbated problems on the roads.
A spokeswoman for Strathallan T Action, which had protested against the relocation, said: “DF Concerts were dismissive of concerns about the suitability of the road network and insisted it could be made to work. They were wrong.”
Council chiefs, who have the power to revoke planning permission, will monitor and review this weekend’s event.
At the close of the festival, Police Scotland said there had been 44 arrests since campsites opened on Thursday, on a par with figures this time last year.
A total of 606 people visited the hospital tents, said the Scottish Ambulance Service. This was down on last year’s figure of 858.