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by 596 - Paul Khawli

Mr. Glenn This Paul Khawli, Planner II with the Lafayette Louisiana MPO. I have heard about your (CTTP) STIP/TIP very successfull management application software. I would like to have the TIP software program and installation files if u care to share it. Thank you in advance Paul Khawli - 596 Lafayette Consolidated Government P.O.Box 4017-C Lafayette, La 70502

22 years, 11 months

[CTPP] Call for Proposals on ACS and Transportation Planning

by Elizabeth Hartmann

A colleague just passed along the following: *************************************** The National Cooperative Highway Research Program is calling for proposals to investigate: Using American Community Survey Data for Transportation Planning The project statement can be found at: http://www4.trb.org/trb/crp.nsf/c9d0a412717cf3a68525672f00632fb5/05c679cfe7… ******* And so it begins! Liz Hartmann Mn/DOT Research Analysis Specialist "Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held it's ground" (Anon)

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[CTPP] latest newsletter

by ed christopher

the september issue of the newsletter "status report" is now online. it can be seen at http://www.TRBcensus.com/newsltr/sr0902.html or as a PDF http://www.TRBcensus.com/newsltr/sr0902.pdf -- 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)

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[CTPP] To subscribe, unsubscribe and post to CTPP-News

by Chuck Purvis

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[CTPP] More SF3 Data released

by Chuck Purvis

TO: CTPP-News - - September 4, 2002 Today, Summary File #3 (Long Form, sample data) was released for an additional seven states/commonwealths: Arizona, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Puerto Rico, and Wyoming. The SF3 datasets for 33 of the 52 states/commonwealths/districts have now been released. New information for today: SF3 data planned for release on 9/17/02 include: Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, Washington. The following "Press Release" link will be updated by the Bureau over the next month to provide expected release dates for the remaining states. http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2002/sumfile3.html The remaining 10 states (for release either 9/24 or 10/1???) include: Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, Wisconsin. (Again, I have no idea which states will be released on 9/24, or the last week of SF3.) Hope this helps, Chuck Purvis, MTC

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RE: [CTPP] Adjusted Urbanized Area

by Williams

The official population that FHWA is required to use for making the apportionment of STP attributable funds is the official Census UZA numbers. The adjusted urbanized / smoothed boundaries do not make any difference for that apportionment. Another question from Washington asked if FHWA were going to allow adjusted UZAs. The 23 USC Section 101 definition of urban area refers to "...urbanized areas or urban place as designated by the Bureau of the Census....within boundaries to be fixed by responsible State and local officals in cooperation with each other subject to approval by the Secretary." This allows adjusted UZAs but does not require it. If they are done by the local area, then they do need an approval by FHWA and FTA. The metropolitan planning boundaries, UZA plus 20 years of growth, are still defined by the MPOs and States without an approval from FHWA and FTA. Ben Williams, P.E. Metropolitan Planning Specialist Federal Highway Administration Southern Resource Center V (404) 562-3671 F (404) 562-3700 ben.williams(a)fhwa.dot.gov Web Site www.fhwa.dot.gov/resourcecenters/southern >>> vputta(a)incog.org 08/16/02 11:22AM >>> I have to add one more question to my previous list: should the state consider the population of revised/adjusted urbanized area for STP-UZA allocation? It (the Adjusted UZA) might be strictly for HPMS purpose only as most would suggest. Thank you everyone. I am sending this also to the MPO List - as some MPO experts may shed some more light on the practice. (for those on the MPO list: my original question was to do with: the State with co-operation from the MPOs shall fix urbanized area boundaries (smoothing out is the term used often) - for HPMS or other purposes). Following responses are self-explanatory. Viplav Putta INCOG ---------------------------------------- Nancy: I got the following responses on the issue of smoothing, which may help others (-VP): --------------------------------------------- Glen Ahlert [gahlert(a)swfrpc.org] The only guidance available from FHWA on this dates from 1991, and still contains a number of obsolete references. It will also leave a lot of your questions unanswered, I suspect. You can download it at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov//////legsregs/directives/fapg/g406300.htm. You might also want to talk to Bob Diogo (bdiogo(a)swfrpc.org) in this office, who has been trying to develop smoothed urbanized area and urban cluster boundaries for this area, about what he has learned and how he's gone about it. ----------------------------------------------- John Coil [jcoil(a)drcog.org] The FHWA requirement for smoothing urbanized areas (or creating transportation urban areas) was focused as an MPO function in 1975, 1983 and 1992. The MPOs needed to define the transportation urban areas and then the urban and rural functional classification to determine which roads were eligible for federal-aid secondary (rural) and federal-aid urban (urban) funding based on the 1974 Federal-aid Highway Act. The MPOs paid little attention to the HPMS data reporting requirements. With the advent of ISTEA in 1992, the need for transportation urban areas declined to just billboard locations, HPMS data reporting and speed limit controls. Since, the Census urbanized boundary now controls billboard locations and the speed controls have been removed. The only remaining need for transportation urban area definitions is the HPMS data reporting requirement. BUT, I think FHWA and many MPOs would like to have a consistent set of transportation urban areas for mapping and other planning functions. I do not know about the MPO interests in Oklahoma, but Denver MPO has no real interest in the urbanized/ transportation urban data reporting. We need data by the TMA to meet our Congressional transportation planning requirements. The 1990 Clean Air Act and ISTEA changed the geography we use in our planning and air quality conformity process. It is too bad that FHWA did not immediately change the HMPS data reporting requirements to match federal law. ---------------------------------------------------------- Mitchell, Steve R. [Steve.Mitchell(a)ahtd.state.ar.us] Go to the following link (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/faqa2cdt.htm#20 ) for information and contacts on the urbanized area boundary smoothing. It was a very big deal after the 1990 Census and ISTEA because there was a nation-wide functional reclassification of the entire roadway network. Back then there was guidance and workshops to help with the process. The FHWA Division offices (states) are now responsible for assisting the states and the information given out is very fragmented and confusing for everyone, not just those who haven't done it before. The information I have has never given a finite limit to the amount of adjustment...just that everyone involved must agree that it is reasonable. The smoothing affects what is classified as urban and rural by the State and Federal government which affects many things they do and could affect funding. The smoothing may be done for all areas classified as urban, not just urbanized areas above 200,000 population. The smoothing is supposed to be done in cooperation with the MPO in large areas. Make suggestions to your DOT as you think appropriate to make data management easier -----------------------------------------------------

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[CTPP] 2000 flow data

by Andrew PICKARD

Is the 2000 journey-to-work travel patterns data available yet? At any level (city to city, taz to taz, etc.)? When will it be released? Thanks - Andy Andrew Pickard Senior Transportation Engineer Hampton Roads Planning District Commission 723 Woodlake Drive Chesapeake, VA 23320 Phone: (757) 420-8300 Fax: (757) 523-4881 E-mail: apickard(a)hrpdc.org Web: www.hrpdc.org

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[CTPP] TIP/STIP management application

by Daryl Scott

Do any transportation planners at MPOs use a TIP/STIP management application that they would highly recommend to other MPOs? The South Western Region Metropolitan Planning Organization has an outstanding contract with a consultant to develop an application to manage the TIP/STIP for the planning region. The application should be able to generate various reports designed for public officials and the general public, keep track of official decisions about projects, store important comments, and have some document management capabilities. I need to provide detailed application specifications to the consultants before they begin work. I hope to get some good ideas from members of this list serve. If you use an excellent TIP/STIP application, please send me some documentation about the program? Thank you in advance for your assistance. Regards, Daryl -- Daryl Scott South Western Regional Planning Agency Stamford Government Center 888 Washington Blvd., 3rd Floor Stamford, CT 06901 Tel: (203) 316-5190 Fax: (203) 316-4995 E-mail: dscott(a)swrpa.org

22 years, 11 months

[CTPP] NCHRP on American Community Survey

by Elaine Murakami

Subject: New NCHRP Project Statements The following National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project Statements is now available at: http://www4.trb.org/trb/crp.nsf/rfps 8-48 Using American Community Survey Data for Transportation Planning Funds available: $300,000 Responses are due on October 17, 2002, 4:00 p.m. The TRB staff on the project is Ron McCready rmccready(a)nas.edu

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FW: [CTPP] TIP/STIP management application

by Holly Massie

Glenn, I received a copy of your response to Daryl at SWRPA concerning your TIP computer program. I would appreciate receiving the installation files as well, if you don't mind. Thank you. Holly Massie Special Programs Officer Assn. of Central Oklahoma Governments 21 E. Main Street, Suite 100 OKC, OK 73104 hmassie(a)acogok.org (405)234-2264 -----Original Message----- From: John Sharp [mailto:jmsharp(a)acogok.org] Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 4:06 PM To: Holly Massie Subject: FW: [CTPP] TIP/STIP management application -----Original Message----- From: owner-ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net [mailto:owner-ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net]On Behalf Of CDTC Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 3:12 PM To: Daryl Scott Cc: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: Re: [CTPP] TIP/STIP management application Daryl, At CDTC we use a computer program we wrote in house. The program runs in a Windows environment on an original Pentium or greater. It allows the user to enter input for TIP projects, produces all relevant output required by CDTC and has various utilities. The output includes project listings and summary tables which go directly into the CDTC TIP document. We only need to add page numbers, since this varies with the version of the TIP document. At the click of a mouse, web pages are produced for every project. These pages are uploaded directly to the Internet and are accessible from the CDTC web site at CDTCMPO.org. (Choose Publications, TIP, 2001-06 TIP, and Project Listings.) Utilities include a feature to find text in a project or find projects by specific criteria, such as fund source. Also, the data can be sent to a file suitable for transmission to DOT for the STIP. We've used this program for several years and find does everything we need it to do. I'll send you the installation files if you like. Glenn Posca Senior Transportation Planner CDTC Daryl Scott wrote: > Do any transportation planners at MPOs use a TIP/STIP management application that they would highly recommend to other MPOs? The South Western Region Metropolitan Planning Organization has an outstanding contract with a consultant to develop an application to manage the TIP/STIP for the planning region. The application should be able to generate various reports designed for public officials and the general public, keep track of official decisions about projects, store important comments, and have some document management capabilities. I need to provide detailed application specifications to the consultants before they begin work. I hope to get some good ideas from members of this list serve. If you use an excellent TIP/STIP application, please send me some documentation about the program? Thank you in advance for your assistance. Regards, Daryl > > -- > > Daryl Scott > South Western Regional Planning Agency > Stamford Government Center > 888 Washington Blvd., 3rd Floor > Stamford, CT 06901 > Tel: (203) 316-5190 > Fax: (203) 316-4995 > E-mail: dscott(a)swrpa.org

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