After January 1, the City of Pueblo/Pueblo MPO will be opening and
advertising for one professional position specializing in travel demand
modeling at the level of Sr. Transportation Planner. This position will be
located in the Department of Planning and Community Development of the City
of Pueblo and will be a classifed Civil Service position with a beginning
salary in the $40,000 - $45,000 range (with excellent benefits) depending on
individual qualifications. The Pueblo Area Council of Governments
sub-delegates and contracts with the City for all the regional
transportation planning functions in both the urban and rural areas.
Although the primary emphasis will be on maintaining and updating the MPO
transportation model (currently in TransCAD), the position will also entail
some general transportation planning for sub-areas and neighborhoods. These
will be used along with the model (which will incorporate both CTPP
information and the results of an O-D survey planned for 2003) to update the
current Long Range Plan to the 2025-2030 time horizon by 2005. The person
selected will be responsible for incorporating mode-split and transit
planning capabilities within the TransCAD platform, and possibly working
with other GIS tools such as ArcView, AutoCAD, etc.
The city of Pueblo is located at I-25 and US50 on the Arkansas River,
approximately 105 miles south of Denver and 40 miles south of Colorado
Springs. Based on 2000 Census figures, the population of the City is
101,121; the County population is 141,472; and the new "3C" area population
will be in the 130-135,000 range. The City owns the Pueblo Transit system
(bus-only at present), and rural transit is provided by a number of local
non-profit organizations. Pueblo County covers a land area of more than
2,400 square miles and contains Lake Pueblo State Park -- one of the largest
lakes in Colorado. For additional information visit the websites at
www.ci.pueblo.co.us, www.co.pueblo.co.us, or www.chieftain.com.
And for my fellow economists out there, the ACCRA Cost of Living Index (2nd
quarter, 2001) for Pueblo is 92.7 which ranks it 38th lowest among 301 urban
areas in the US, and the lowest in Colorado. For comparison, Denver is
109.5, Los Angeles-LongBeach CA is 140.0, Manhattan NYC is 232.5, and even
my old hometown of Austin, TX is 106.1. The Housing cost index in the
Pueblo area is only 80.3 compared to Denver at 121.0. The current
unemployment rate is 6.2% (up from 4.3% a year ago).
I will send along the formal job description with qualifications and
application procedures as soon as it becomes available from our Human
Resources Department and Civil Service Commission. Meanwhile, if you think
you might be interested in the position, please feel free to get in touch
with me by phone, fax, mail or e-mail. HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'ALL!!!!
Bill Moore, M.ITE, Senior Transportation Planner
Pueblo MPO - City of Pueblo
Dept. of Planning and Community Development
211 E. D Street, P.O. Box 1427
Pueblo, CO 81003
Phone: (719) 583-4485 FAX: (719) 543-0572
E-mail: bmoore(a)ci.pueblo.co.us
I have heard that FHWA is putting a decision on hold on how it will use the new
urbanized area definiton for HPMS data.
Has there been any change in the proposed use of the definition in the
designation of MPOs and TMAs?
Frank O. Miller, AICP
Senior Transportation Planner
Missouri Department of Transportation - District 8
23 USC 134 "Designation of Metropolitan Planning Organizations" uses the
Census Bureau definition of urbanized areas for determination of MPOs and
TMAs. This is why we have tried to keep everyone informed about the Census
Bureau's proposed revisions to the criteria for defining Urbanized Areas and
Urban Clusters. The Census Bureau received a lot of comments to their Fed Reg
notice(s), and will publish the final criteria in January.
The Census Bureau still plans to publish a list of urbanized areas (and the
population for the UAs) in mid-March 2002.
FHWA and FTA intend to use these new UAs for FY2003 fund apportionment. (this
information was conveyed in the Dec 21, 2000 memo signed by Cindy Burbank and
Charlotte Adams).
Everyone should keep in mind that the urbanized area is NOT the same as the
metropolitan planning area, as the planning area should "encompass at least
the existing urbanized area and the contiguous area expected to become
urbanized within a 20-year forecast period, and may encompass the entire
metropolitan statistical area...as defined by the Bureau of the Census."
>>> millef1(a)mail.modot.state.mo.us 12/07/01 16:54 PM >>>
I have heard that FHWA is putting a decision on hold on how it will use the
new
urbanized area definiton for HPMS data.
Has there been any change in the proposed use of the definition in the
designation of MPOs and TMAs?
Frank O. Miller, AICP
Senior Transportation Planner
Missouri Department of Transportation - District 8
Attached is an article that will appear in the upcoming "Status Report"
newsletter. It describes the state of affairs surrounding an issue
which many of us know as disclosure review. Disclosure review is an
internal Census Bureau process that looks at all Census related data
products to make sure that an individual respondent cannot be identified
through analysis of the data. Before the development of the CTPP can
advance, the Census Bureau's Disclosure Review Board must approve the
product. Exactly where this will end up and what the final CTPP will
look like after the DRB process is over, is not totally known.
Because of the importance of this to so many, lets keep the discussion
on the listserve. When responding make sure to have the listserve
address, ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net, in the 'to" line of your email.
(if you are having trouble opening the document please do not hesitate
to call. it is an .rtf format which tends to be email friendly)
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Ed Christopher
Metropolitan Activities
Midwest Resource Center
Federal Highway Administration
19900 Governors Drive
Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461
708-283-3534 (V)
708-283-3501 (F)
On behalf of the CTPP Working Group, Nanda Srinivasan, Ed Christopher and
Elaine Murakami, prepared these sample Journey to Work profiles using the
American Community Survey C2SS data files.
http://www.trbcensus.com/c2ss/profiles.html Because the C2SS samples are
small, the geographic reporting units are large and the error is relatively
large (compared to decennial census long form data). Nonetheless, it is
data from 2000, available now, and will probably give you a good idea of
what to expect from Summary File 3.
For some transportation focused statewide summaries of C2SS visit the parent
page at http://www.TRBcensus.com/c2ss.html
We are very interested in knowing about YOUR analysis with the C2SS data
files or other American Community Survey products. Please share your
analysis with the CTPP listserv by sending an email to ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net
We are also interested in reports from Census 2000 Summary File 1 that you
may have posted on your agency webpages. We will compile a list and include
it on the CTPP webpage. Please send the web addresses to Nanda at
nanda.srinivasan(a)fhwa.dot.gov
Elaine Murakami, FHWA