CTPP July 2010

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[CTPP] RE: CTPP2006-2008 County-toCounty work flows are OUT!

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Yes, we are very happy that the Census Bureau has delivered the 3-year CTPP (2006-2008 ACS) to us. As you all know, the CTPP includes many tables, I believe over 200. I am too lazy to figure out the exact count. Here is a link to the table list: http://ctpp.transportation.org/Pages/ACSData.aspx I knew that the county-to-county flow table is of high interest, so Liang Long, who is our CTPP Tech Support staff, prepared this data, which for your convenience includes CTPP2000 results. There are over 200,000 county-to-county pairs, so if you want to open this in Excel, you need to use Microsoft Office 2007, otherwise you will run over the record limit. You will see the "swiss cheese" nature of the data, since the 2006-2008 tabulations are subject to the 20,000 population threshold for 3-year ACS data. AASHTO's data access software vendor, Beyond 2020 and Citygate have now received the FULL component of data (5 DVDs), and a CTPP subcommittee will be reviewing an early version of the software that is due on August 4. The vendor was limited in their development because the Census Bureau gave them blank table shells and they did not have any test data for the development process, until they received the DVDs a week ago. Beyond 2020 is expected to finalize the software in September, but since the CB's data delivery was about 2.5 weeks delayed, we don't get yet know if the software will also be delayed. In August, Liang is going to be very busy working on updating the TAZ responsibility spreadsheets, as we need to deliver the list to the Census Bureau Geography Division very soon. But, depending on how that goes, I will see if she has time to make a Place-to-Place flow tabulation similar to the County-to-County flow tab, but this will definitely make you crazy with the "swiss cheese" nature of the results. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460 (I will be out of the office from August 2-4) From: Liang Long [mailto:LLong(a)camsys.com] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 1:59 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Cc: Murakami, Elaine (FHWA); edc(a)berwyned.com; pweinberger(a)aashto.org Subject: CTPP2006-2008 County-toCounty work flows are OUT! Hi, We are pound to announce that CTPP2006-2008 County-toCounty flows using ACS are available for downloading now! The data file also contains CTPP2000 County-to-county flow for users convenience. Two data formats are available: SAS and CVS. A detailed note for dataset is also available. Check it out now! ftp://ftp.camsys.com/temp/outgoing/CTPP/New%20CTPP%20ACS/ <ftp://ftp.camsys.com/temp/outgoing/CTPP/New%20CTPP%20ACS/> Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 9141 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

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[CTPP] CTPP2006-2008 County-toCounty work flows are OUT!

by Liang Long

Hi, We are pound to announce that CTPP2006-2008 County-toCounty flows using ACS are available for downloading now! The data file also contains CTPP2000 County-to-county flow for users convenience. Two data formats are available: SAS and CVS. A detailed note for dataset is also available. Check it out now! ftp://ftp.camsys.com/temp/outgoing/CTPP/New%20CTPP%20ACS/ Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 9141 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

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[CTPP] Transportation Planner: Iowa Department of Transportation

by Mescher

Job Posting: Transportation Planner 1, Iowa Department of Transportation The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of Systems Planning is seeking a Transportation Planner that will serve on the Traffic Forecasting, Modeling and Highway Planning Team. Responsibilities of this position will focus on assisting with the development of an Asset Management Plan for the department, working on various highway planning projects, supporting travel demand modeling and traffic forecasting work, utilizing Geographic Information System software as well as performing a variety of long-range transportation planning activities for the Department of Transportation. This position will play a critical role in developing working partnerships among various offices within the Department with the goal to integrate asset management principles and techniques into the transportation planning process and to support programming decisions. This position will assist with various highway planning activities such as analyzing data to support the development of plans and studies. In addition, this position will assist with work to strengthen and improve the department's urban traffic modeling/forecasting efforts and analytical capabilities using geographic information system software. Additional responsibilities include performing long-range planning activities for highways including capacity analyses, asset management system integration, sufficiency analyses, Census data analysis, etc. Other responsibilities include representing the department and making presentations to MPO and RPA technical committees and policy boards. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential. Shift: Days, Monday thru Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm with flextime available. Travel: Overnight travel not regularly required. In addition to applying to DAS-HRE, all candidates must submit a resume to: Iowa Department of Transportation Office of Systems Planning Attention: Phil Mescher 800 Lincoln Way Ames, IA 50010 Minimum Qualifications Graduation from an accredited college or university course work with a major in civil/transportation engineering, community development planning, economics, environmental engineering, mathematics, regional planning, transportation planning or urban planning. To Apply: Submit a completed Iowa Department of Administrative Services - Human Resources Enterprise (DAS-HRE) application form by the closing date (08/05/2010). To complete an electronic application form, click on "Apply for Job Vacancy(s)" button. You may also mail an application form to: Iowa Department of Administrative Services - Human Resources Enterprise, Hoover State Office Building, 1305 East Walnut, Des Moines, IA 50319-0150 or fax your application to (515) 281-7970. http://das.hre.iowa.gov/state_jobs.html Phillip J. Mescher, AICP Office of Systems Planning Iowa Department of Transportation 515-239-1629 Phil.Mescher(a)dot.iowa.gov

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RE: [CTPP] TAZ delineation in Calendar 2011

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Yes, these are the business rules agreed upon by AASHTO and the Census Bureau Geog division. -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Paul Tiley Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 12:30 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: Re: [CTPP] TAZ delineation in Calendar 2011 Elaine, I hadn't heard anything about the Business Rules being finalized. Are the rules at the URL below the finalized rules? Paul Tiley TXDOT TPP My Email address is changing to Paul.Tiley(a)txdot.gov by early August. >>> <Elaine.Murakami(a)dot.gov> 7/8/2010 3:59 PM >>> Dear Everyone - We are awaiting the delivery of the first 3-year CTPP using 2006-2008 ACS records. This CTPP is restricted to large geography (county, places with 20,000 population and over). Our goal was to have web-accessible data in September 2010, but today we learned that the CB now has a delay of 2 weeks, which MAY impact the delivery schedule from Beyond 2020 and Citygate, the CTPP data access software vendors. We will keep you updated. In the meantime, you are probably putting together your annual workplans and I want to remind everyone who plans to submit TAZ (and TADs) for the 5-year CTPP tabulation to include labor hours for Spring and Summer 2011 for this task. For a copy of the TAZ delineation business rules: http://download.ctpp.transportation.org/TAZ_Rules/TAZ%20Delineation%20Bu siness%20Rules_CTPP%20Final.pdf Q. Do you have to define TAZs or TADs? A. No, you can still get CTPP tabulations for Census tracts or Census block groups if you do not want to delineate TAZs. Q. What is a TAZ and what is a TAD? A. A TAZ is a Transportation Analysis Zone and is the smallest geographic unit for which the CTPP tabulations will be provided. A TAD is a Transportation Analysis District, and will either be an accumulation of TAZs, or accumulation of tracts, to total approximately 20,000 population. This will provide a geographic unit that is smaller than a PUMA (100,000 population), and larger than a census tract (4,000 population). The TAD is larger geographic unit which has the potential to be used in nation-wide tabulations for 3-year ACS tabulations in the future. Q. What process will be used to submit TAZs? A. some of you probably saw the Caliper announcement that they will be developing the software for the Census Bureau's Geography Division for this part of the CTPP. It will be a GIS-based application and will not require you to purchase or license any additional software. It will be a block-equivalency program. That is, you are restricted to existing Census-defined blocks. This means that your agency's TAZ for your forecasting model may not exactly match the TAZ submitted for the CTPP tabulation. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460 ===================== TxDOT is going Green to keep our air clean. Find out how at www.drivecleanacrosstexas.org _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

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[CTPP] TAZ delineation in Calendar 2011

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Dear Everyone - We are awaiting the delivery of the first 3-year CTPP using 2006-2008 ACS records. This CTPP is restricted to large geography (county, places with 20,000 population and over). Our goal was to have web-accessible data in September 2010, but today we learned that the CB now has a delay of 2 weeks, which MAY impact the delivery schedule from Beyond 2020 and Citygate, the CTPP data access software vendors. We will keep you updated. In the meantime, you are probably putting together your annual workplans and I want to remind everyone who plans to submit TAZ (and TADs) for the 5-year CTPP tabulation to include labor hours for Spring and Summer 2011 for this task. For a copy of the TAZ delineation business rules: http://download.ctpp.transportation.org/TAZ_Rules/TAZ%20Delineation%20Bu siness%20Rules_CTPP%20Final.pdf Q. Do you have to define TAZs or TADs? A. No, you can still get CTPP tabulations for Census tracts or Census block groups if you do not want to delineate TAZs. Q. What is a TAZ and what is a TAD? A. A TAZ is a Transportation Analysis Zone and is the smallest geographic unit for which the CTPP tabulations will be provided. A TAD is a Transportation Analysis District, and will either be an accumulation of TAZs, or accumulation of tracts, to total approximately 20,000 population. This will provide a geographic unit that is smaller than a PUMA (100,000 population), and larger than a census tract (4,000 population). The TAD is larger geographic unit which has the potential to be used in nation-wide tabulations for 3-year ACS tabulations in the future. Q. What process will be used to submit TAZs? A. some of you probably saw the Caliper announcement that they will be developing the software for the Census Bureau's Geography Division for this part of the CTPP. It will be a GIS-based application and will not require you to purchase or license any additional software. It will be a block-equivalency program. That is, you are restricted to existing Census-defined blocks. This means that your agency's TAZ for your forecasting model may not exactly match the TAZ submitted for the CTPP tabulation. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460

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[CTPP] 12th National Tools of the Trade Conference Sept 22-24 in Williamsburg, VA

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Hello Everyone - The 12th National "Tools of the Trade" Conference is scheduled for September 22-24, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza at Fort Magruder in Historic Williamsburg. On Sept 22, the CTPP team is hosting a Federal Data workshop where we will discuss 2010 Census, ACS, CTPP and NHTS, so I hope to see you there. If you don't know what all those acronyms are, you should definitely plan to attend! J The preliminary program for the conference is posted on the TRB Committee website http://www.trbtoolsofthetrade.org/pdf/conf/2010/DraftProgram_May24_2010. pdf REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! The following is a link to registration on the internet: https://www.regonline.com/ToolsoftheTradeConference <https://www.regonline.com/ToolsoftheTradeConference> Please come to this conference to learn ready-to-use, economical and practical techniques for transportation professionals in small (under 50,000) and medium-sized (50,000 - 250,000) communities. Advance registration is only $200.00 and includes most meals and the group outing in Colonial Williamsburg on Thursday night during the Conference. For additional information, please contact Marsha Fiol, Virginia Department of Transportation Phone 804 786-2985, E-mail: Marsha.Fiol(a)VDOT.Virginia.gov <mailto:Marsha.Fiol(a)VDOT.Virginia.gov> http://www.trbtoolsofthetrade.org/ <http://www.trbtoolsofthetrade.org/> Elaine Murakami 206-220-4460

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