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.comwww.camsys.com
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.comwww.camsys.com
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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
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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
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