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[CTPP] Traffic Analysis Zone delineation software demonstration at Transportation Review Board meeting (January 23-25)

by april.l.avnayim＠census.gov

The Census Bureau Geography Division will have a booth in the Exhibit Hall at the upcoming Transportation Research Board annual meeting, at which demonstrations of the Traffic Analysis Zone delineation software, known as the TAZ MAF/TIGER Partnership Software (or TAZ MTPS), will be conducted for interested attendees. Staff will be available to answer questions about the software and the TAZ program itself, in addition to demonstrating the software’s functionalities. The Exhibit Hall is located within the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, and will be open Sunday, January 23, 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (Opening Reception), Monday, January 24, 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and Tuesday, January 25, 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. The Census Bureau booth is #1117. Hope to see you there! The TAZ team geo.taz.list(a)census.gov

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[CTPP] New ACS 3-year data released

by Ed Christopher

Now that we have all had time to digest the 2010 population count and the 2005-2009 5 year ACS estimates the 3-year 2007-2009 ACS have arrived. Today the U.S Census Bureau announced the release of the 2007-2009 American Community Survey (ACS) 3-year estimates on American FactFinder. This release covers the same topics included in the previously released 2009 ACS 1-year estimates. The 2007-2009 ACS estimates have a 3-year time frame and are only available for areas with populations of 20,000 or more. You can access the newly-released data on American FactFinder at: 2007-2009 ACS 3-year data http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=ACS&_s… If you would like more information and supporting documentation for this data release please visit the ACS web site at: www.census.gov/acs [ http://www.census.gov/acs ] -- Ed Christopher FHWA Resource Center Planning Team 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (C)

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[CTPP] Re: MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area

by Catala

Hello Robert, A colleague of mine has done work in this area and I have cc'd him. He was part of a project that addressed several MPO issues, and it can be found at www.mposurvey.com<http://www.mposurvey.com>. You can contact him directly at: Alex Bond albond(a)cutr.usf.edu (813) 974-9779 Martin Catala Manager GIS and Informatics Group Center for Urban Transportation Research 4202 East Fowler Ave (CUT100) Tampa, FL 33620 813-974-9791 catala(a)cutr.usf.edu http://www.transitgis.org Join the Transit GIS Listserv<http://lists.cutr.usf.edu/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=transitgis> From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net<mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net> [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net]<mailto:[mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net]> On Behalf Of Smith, Robert Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 5:59 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net<mailto:ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net> Subject: [CTPP] MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area CTTP List Serv: I was wondering if there are any MPO's out there that have more than one urbanized area in your area and if so how is this handled? I am also seeking opinions of other MPO professionals about the pro's and con's of having two in one MPO area, especially if they are not contiguous to each other based on the urban area criteria. Thanks, Robert Robert E. Smith Jr. Senior Transportation Planner, MPO Administrator Planning and Development Department Transportation Planning Division Head City of Montgomery/MPO Intermodal Transportation Facility 495 Molton Street Montgomery, AL 36104 Phone: (334) 241-2249 Fax: (334) 241-2326 Email: rsmith(a)montgomeryal.gov<mailto:rsmith(a)montgomeryal.gov> City of Montgomery website: http://montgomeryal.gov/index.aspx?page=205 MPO website: http://www.montgomerympo.org

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[CTPP] Did you miss the CB's December events on the 5-year (2005-2009) ACS?

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Maybe these archived webinars will help! Dec 8, 2010 Census Bureau ACS webinar, with ppt and wmv files. Explains difference between the 2010 Decennial Census and the multi-year ACS, ACS products. See the right side of the page at: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_surv ey_acs/cb10-cn86.html Dec 14, 2010 Census Bureau ACS webinar, with pdf and wmv files, including the thematic maps in AFF that drill down to detailed (tract) geography. See: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_surv ey_acs/cb10-cn90.html Thanks to Trent Alexander, Chief, Data Analysis and User Education Branch, American Community Survey Office.

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[CTPP] MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area

by Smith

CTTP List Serv: I was wondering if there are any MPO's out there that have more than one urbanized area in your area and if so how is this handled? I am also seeking opinions of other MPO professionals about the pro's and con's of having two in one MPO area, especially if they are not contiguous to each other based on the urban area criteria. Thanks, Robert Robert E. Smith Jr. Senior Transportation Planner, MPO Administrator Planning and Development Department Transportation Planning Division Head City of Montgomery/MPO Intermodal Transportation Facility 495 Molton Street Montgomery, AL 36104 Phone: (334) 241-2249 Fax: (334) 241-2326 Email: rsmith(a)montgomeryal.gov<mailto:rsmith(a)montgomeryal.gov> City of Montgomery website: http://montgomeryal.gov/index.aspx?page=205 MPO website: http://www.montgomerympo.org

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[CTPP] Statistical calculators for ACS

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Thank you all for the discussions about MOE re-calculations when using ACS data. We have added links to 2 different calculators to the FHWA web page on census data. One is from the State Data Center network, and the other is from Univ of South Florida, Center for Urban Transportation Research. Please look under the "training" section on this page. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/acs.htm Hope to see many of you at the TRB annual meeting in a couple of weeks. Don't forget that there is an ACS data workshop on Sunday, January 23 from 9:00 a.m. - noon. The Census Bureau Geography Division is planning to show the prototype version of the TAZ module of MTPS during that session. They will also have a booth in the TRB Exhibit Hall. This workshop was organized by TRB Committee on Urban Data (ABJ30): Census subcommittee. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460

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[CTPP] RE: MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area

by Lloyd Robinson

Thanks. From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of David Lee Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 12:26 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] RE: MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area We have two separate urbanized areas within our MPO boundaries. This is not an easy issue for our region (Fredericksburg Area MPO: FAMPO) when it involves federal funding issues, while modeling the region is quite straightforward. Washington (DC-MD-VA) TMA urbanized area boundary which was out of our region in 1990 Census was expanded to a part of our region (north Stafford county) due to 2000 Census. This created two separate urbanized areas in FAMPO planning region: one is for the Stafford portion of Washington TMA and the other for Fredericksburg area. See the maps: http://www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/ua_washington.pdf http://www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/ua_fredericksburg.pdf Due to this change, in 2004, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) and the Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (FAMPO) entered into a cooperative agreement which identifies the roles and responsibilities for cooperatively conducting the metropolitan planning and programming process. The agreement was entered into to resolve the matter of having a portion of the Washington TMA urbanized area boundary extend into the northern portion of Stafford County. FAMPO is a non-TMA, and the agreement commits FAMPO to be responsible for meeting the TMA responsibilities for planning and programming requirements within the Washington TMA Urbanized Area of Stafford County. The agreement also requires coordination between both organizations with respect to the development of the Congestion Management Process, the Unified Planning Work Program, and during federal certification reviews. Specifically, as it pertain to the coordination of planning activities, the agreement states that, " TPB and FAMPO will maintain coordinated, cooperative, and continuing planning processes. TPB and FAMPO shall coordinate their planning processes and produce required planning documents on the same cycle, as determined by TPB's current planning cycle." We recognized that some disconnect between the coordination and cooperation initiatives that were contained in the agreement and what was actually being practiced. Therefore, we are under the revision of the agreement. David J-H. LEE, Ph.D. Principal Planner Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization / George Washington Regional Commission (540) 373-2890 From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Allen, Robert Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 9:48 AM To: 'ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net' Subject: [CTPP] RE: MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area I am aware of several MPOs in Texas that have more than one urbanized area under a single MPO. For example, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Galveston, and Austin all have a TMA and one or more smaller urbanized areas in the same MPO area. Midland-Odessa and Beaumont-Port Arthur each have more than one non-TMA and no TMA. The keys are the amount of travel interactivity among the urbanized areas, the reasonableness of having separate plans for transportation systems for the urbanized areas, and in the case of smaller urbanized areas, the feasibility of funding a separate planning organization. However, regardless of the objective rationales for integrating transportation systems planning among urbanized areas in the same metropolitan area, there are often political rivalries that must be carefully negotiated and all public decisions are ultimately made in a political context. Robert R. Allen, AICP Abilene MPO Transportation Planning Director 400 Oak St. #102, Abilene, TX 79602 Phone 325-676-6243 Fax 325-676-6398 From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Smith, Robert Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 4:59 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area CTTP List Serv: I was wondering if there are any MPO's out there that have more than one urbanized area in your area and if so how is this handled? I am also seeking opinions of other MPO professionals about the pro's and con's of having two in one MPO area, especially if they are not contiguous to each other based on the urban area criteria. Thanks, Robert Robert E. Smith Jr. Senior Transportation Planner, MPO Administrator Planning and Development Department Transportation Planning Division Head City of Montgomery/MPO Intermodal Transportation Facility 495 Molton Street Montgomery, AL 36104 Phone: (334) 241-2249 Fax: (334) 241-2326 Email: rsmith(a)montgomeryal.gov<mailto:rsmith(a)montgomeryal.gov> City of Montgomery website: http://montgomeryal.gov/index.aspx?page=205 MPO website: http://www.montgomerympo.org

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[CTPP] RE: MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area

by Walt Raith

For those of you interested the Federal Highway Administration released a report in May of 2010 titled, Staffing and Administrative Capacity of Metropolitan Planning Organization. It provides examples of various MPO organizational structures and operations across the nation. A number of organizations administer more than 1 MPO (We serve 3). It is interesting and available on the TRB Website: http://144.171.11.107/Main/Public/Blurbs/42264ab6-af43-437c-8718-011f6a23fe… I will try to e-mail a copy to Mr. Smith (7MB). Thanks Walt Raith, Assistant Director/MPO Director East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission 400 Ahnaip St, Suite 100 Menasha WI 54952 Phone: 920-751-4770 Fax: 920-751-4771 ________________________________ From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of John Hodges-Copple Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 7:24 AM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] RE: MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area An MPO should serve the most logical definition of a regional travel market. If that market includes more than 1 urbanized area, then the MPO should include those urbanized areas. Here in the Research Triangle region, we have two urbanized areas within 2 MSAs (Raleigh-Cary and Durham-Chapel Hill) with separate MPOs, but our most heavily traveled roadway link (I-40 at the Durham/Wake County line in the Research Triangle Park) is at the dividing line between our urbanized areas and MPOs. We make things work through good cooperation (single travel demand model, joint LRTP, single air quality conformity process, etc.) but it is not how one would design the process to be most effective and cost-efficient. John Hodges-Copple, Planning Director Triangle J Council of Governments PO Box 12276 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Street address: 4307 Emperor Blvd., Suite 110, Durham, NC 27703 919-558-9320 (direct) johnhc(a)tjcog.org<mailto:johnhc(a)tjcog.org> www.tjcog.dst.nc.us<http://www.tjcog.dst.nc.us/> E-mail correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Act and may be disclosed to third parties unless made confidential under applicable law. From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy..net] On Behalf Of Smith, Robert Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 5:59 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] MPO's Areas with More Than One Urbanized Area CTTP List Serv: I was wondering if there are any MPO's out there that have more than one urbanized area in your area and if so how is this handled? I am also seeking opinions of other MPO professionals about the pro's and con's of having two in one MPO area, especially if they are not contiguous to each other based on the urban area criteria. Thanks, Robert Robert E. Smith Jr. Senior Transportation Planner, MPO Administrator Planning and Development Department Transportation Planning Division Head City of Montgomery/MPO Intermodal Transportation Facility 495 Molton Street Montgomery, AL 36104 Phone: (334) 241-2249 Fax: (334) 241-2326 Email: rsmith(a)montgomeryal.gov<mailto:rsmith(a)montgomeryal.gov> City of Montgomery website: http://montgomeryal.gov/index.aspx?page=205 MPO website: http://www.montgomerympo.org E-Mail correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Act and may be disclosed to third parties unless made confidential under applicable law.

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[CTPP] Presentation of data

by Srinivasan

All-- You might find these videos by Hans Rosling on presenting health data extremely useful/interesting. The first is a 4 minute long YouTube video (I know some of you cannot watch YouTube from your work computers). The second is 18 minutes long, but is available on a blog. If you have an opportunity to view these, you will agree that these are exceptional presentations. Thanks to Alan Pisarski for sharing this with us. 4 minute version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo 18 minute version http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/data_visualisation Thanks Nanda

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[CTPP] RE: ctpp-news Digest, Vol 83, Issue 6- Sorry

by Wade L. White

Everyone: I just wanted to extend my apologies to everyone for that crazy application-gone-wild on my Crackberry. I didn't look at e-mails over a few days and I didn't realize it was replying to everything that came in. I've since deleted it from the phone. Happy New Year! W Wade L. White, AICP President Click Here to Download My Updated VCard File Whitehouse Group 40 East Joyce Lane Arnold, MD 21012 Office Number: +1.202.241.2008 Fax Number: +1.866.846.5875 Mobile Number: +1.202.247.7833 Email Address: wwhite(a)wgianalytics.com Website: http://www.wgianalytics.com Mobile Website: http://mobile.wgianalytics.com ...solutions for a dynamic world This electronic mail communication may contain privileged, confidential, and/or proprietary information which is the property of Whitehouse Group Inc. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized agent of the intended recipient please delete this communication and notify the sender that you have received it in error. -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net] On Behalf Of ctpp-news-request(a)chrispy.net Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:00 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: ctpp-news Digest, Vol 83, Issue 6 Send ctpp-news mailing list submissions to ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ctpp-news-request(a)chrispy.net You can reach the person managing the list at ctpp-news-owner(a)chrispy.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ctpp-news digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re:Out of Office Replies (Ed Christopher) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 11:12:35 -0600 (CST) From: "Ed Christopher" <edc(a)berwyned.com> Subject: [CTPP] Re:Out of Office Replies To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Message-ID: <65521.152.120.255.250.1294161155.squirrel(a)cp.chrispy.net> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 I took care of the "drive carefully" guy from my end as list administrator. I put the subscribed email address on the "moderate" list which means that I have to approve any posts from that address before they get posted. Although this sometimes adds delay to the posts people make from getting to the list, I have found this the most efficient way to reduce the "Out of Office" replies that make it through. My advice is if you get an "Out of Office" rely from the list just delete it and know that I will put that address on the moderate list at my earliest convenience. Also, if you post to the list and get a "message waiting for approval" note please bear with me and recognize that you have been put on the moderate list for one reason or another. Again, I apologize for any inconvenience. Your CTPP list administrator Ed Christopher FHWA Resource Center Planning Team 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (C) ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news End of ctpp-news Digest, Vol 83, Issue 6 ****************************************

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