ctpp-news January 2010

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2009 TIGER/Line Shapefiles released today; info on 2010,TIGER/LineShapefiles

by Ed Christopher

FYI--Besides the 2009 Tiger Files it looks like we will have the new 2010 Files before the 2010 Block population counts come out in around March of 2011. This is good news. Just yesterday I was in a meeting where the question came up. ================== The Census Bureau has released 2009 TIGER/Line Shapefiles today. Available here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/ This will be the last public release of TIGER data until early 2011. This early 2011 release will include all of the updated 2010 tabulation geography that serves as the geographic framework for 2010 Census data tabulations (including the new 2010 Census tracts, block groups, blocks, voting districts, and much more). Around the same time as this 2011 geospatial data release, Census will be releasing the tabular data with 2010 Census population counts down to the Census block level. See the attached document for more information, including changes under consideration and a request for input. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443

13 years, 3 months

Data Source Question

by Sabula, Julianne Ruth (Engineering-Const Planner II)

I am passing on a question from one of our strategic planners. "Where can I find data on Mode of transportation for work trips by county, travel time to work by county, number of commuters by community/city, and carpool commuter activity by community/city?" If anyone knows where to find this information (state of Utah), please let me know. Thank you! Julianne Sabula Utah Transit Authority Engineering and Construction Planner II 669 West 200 South Salt Lake City, UT 84101 w. (801) 237-1973 c. (801) 867-5203 jsabula(a)rideuta.com

14 years

Re: 2010 Census - Urban/Urbanized Definitions

by Ed Christopher

Garth--I am posting this to the Listserve since it is a common question and its important that we update everyone. You are right that we have been waiting for the Federal Register notice announcing the criteria that the Census Bureau will use for defining Urbanized area. You are equally right that it was expected in the fall of 2009. Unfortunately it has not come out yet and we are hoping to see it by the Spring of 2010. From what I have been told it has been drafted and is wending its way up the Census Bureau hierarchy to get all the approvals and sign offs. for now we can sit and wait for the process to do its thing. Incidentally, I am working with Mike Ratcliffe from Census Geography on a workshop that we will be having at the GIS-T conference in April where we will have the whole issue of Urbanized Area criteria on the agenda. Needless to say we are both hopeful that the Register notice will be out by then. Garth Banninga wrote: > Good morning: > > I was wondering if you have any new information on the Census' proposed criteria > for determining urban cluster and urbanized area boundaries for 2010? I recall > from both a June 2009 webinar as well as the September 2009 CTPP Newsletter that > the proposed criteria would be published in Fall 2009. Has this occurred? If > so, what Federal Register issue should one consult? I'd appreciate any > clarification you could provide. > > Thanks! > > > Garth Banninga, Planner > MDOT-Planning > Statewide Model Unit > 425 W. Ottawa St. > Lansing, MI 48933 > 517.335.2959 -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443

14 years, 2 months

Re: [CTPP] Re: 2010 Census - Urban/Urbanized Definitions

by michael.r.ratcliffe＠census.gov

While the Census Bureau seeks input and comments on the criteria for delineating urban areas, the delineation process is carried out solely by the Census Bureau. We define urban areas for statistical purposes only-- for purposes of tabulating and presenting statistical data for individual urban areas and the urban and rural components of the population, housing, and land area of the nation, states, and other geographic areas. Although we are cognizant of other agencies' particular uses of our urban areas or urban/rural classification for implementing programs, we do ntake those uses into account when delineating urban areas. This has been the case since the Census Bureau first began identifying urban areas in 1910 and urbanized areas in 1950. So, to be clear, we have no plans to release an app for delineating urban areas. Mike Ratcliffe Michael Ratcliffe Assistant Chief, Geocartographic Products and Criteria Geography Division U.S. Census Bureau Michael.r.ratcliffe(a)census.gov 301.763.8977 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seidensticker, Dan" [DSeidensticker(a)cityofmadison.com] Sent: 01/29/2010 09:17 AM CST To: ctpp-news maillist <ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net> Subject: RE: [CTPP] Re: 2010 Census - Urban/Urbanized Definitions Has anyone got word of the Census Bureau releasing any GIS tools that will aid in creating the Urban Area using the criteria? It would be disappointing to spend the time coding a model only to find out there was already an app for that. Thanks. Dan Seidensticker GIS Specialist Madison Area Transportation Planning Board: A Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) City of Madison Planning Unit 121 S. Pinckney Street, Suite 400 Madison, WI 53703 Voice: 608-266-9119 Fax: 608-261-9967 Email: dseidensticker(a)cityofmadison.com www.MadisonAreaMPO.org -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Ed Christopher Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:01 PM To: Garth Banninga; ctpp-news maillist Subject: [CTPP] Re: 2010 Census - Urban/Urbanized Definitions Garth--I am posting this to the Listserve since it is a common question and its important that we update everyone. You are right that we have been waiting for the Federal Register notice announcing the criteria that the Census Bureau will use for defining Urbanized area. You are equally right that it was expected in the fall of 2009. Unfortunately it has not come out yet and we are hoping to see it by the Spring of 2010. From what I have been told it has been drafted and is wending its way up the Census Bureau hierarchy to get all the approvals and sign offs. for now we can sit and wait for the process to do its thing. Incidentally, I am working with Mike Ratcliffe from Census Geography on a workshop that we will be having at the GIS-T conference in April where we will have the whole issue of Urbanized Area criteria on the agenda. Needless to say we are both hopeful that the Register notice will be out by then. Garth Banninga wrote: > Good morning: > > I was wondering if you have any new information on the Census' proposed criteria > for determining urban cluster and urbanized area boundaries for 2010? I recall > from both a June 2009 webinar as well as the September 2009 CTPP Newsletter that > the proposed criteria would be published in Fall 2009. Has this occurred? If > so, what Federal Register issue should one consult? I'd appreciate any > clarification you could provide. > > Thanks! > > > Garth Banninga, Planner > MDOT-Planning > Statewide Model Unit > 425 W. Ottawa St. > Lansing, MI 48933 > 517.335.2959 -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443 _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

14 years, 2 months

FHWA research and project proposals due Feb 15, 2010

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

Dear CTPP community: Perhaps you have an idea for a data-related (or any other) project that could be funded under this FHWA solicitation (see the list of priority topics below). "FHWA strongly encourages cost sharing under any contract that may result, and can offer cooperative agreements if the proposer can offer a cost share of 50 percent from non-federal sources of funding...The FHWA strongly encourages proposals that offer a significant non-federal matching funds or in-kind resources. Cost reasonableness and realism will also be considered in the overall selection process." Elaine FHWA Office of Planning ------- Transformational Changes and Revolutionary Advances for Transportation Planning FY 2010 Transportation Planning Broad Agency Announcement Number: DTFH61-10-R-00013 Proposals Due by: February 15, 2010 The FHWA Office of Planning is soliciting proposals for research and development projects that could lead to transformational changes and revolutionary advances for transportation planning in the United States. The objective of this Broad Agency Announcement (Solicitation Number DTFH61-10-R-00013) is to advance the practice and application of transportation planning among state, regional and local transportation planning agencies in response to significant changes in the planning process and to identify new tools, techniques and approaches that respond to national transportation planning priorities. The FHWA is accepting pre-proposals through February 15, 2010. Proposals may be in one or more of the following transportation planning focus areas: (1) Tools and Techniques That Support State and local Planning Capacity Building, (2) Tools and Techniques That Support Tribal Planning Capacity Building, (3) Global Climate Change and Air Quality, (4) Congestion Management, (5) Safety Planning, (6) Public Involvement, Environmental Justice, Visualization in Planning, and (7) Freight Planning. A copy of the notice is posted on FedBizOpps.gov at https://www.fbo.gov <https://www.fbo.gov> (search for solicitation number DTFH61-10-R-00013).

14 years, 2 months

CENSUS NEWS FLASH--finding hard-to-count Populations

by Ed Christopher

This is a very interesting website which can have lots of applications. Worth checking out. --------------------------------------------------- NEW MAPPING WEBSITE HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES TO ACCURATE 2010 CENSUS IN HARD-TO-COUNT AREAS Interactive Maps Help Guide Outreach Strategies in Support of Full Count http://www.censushardtocountmaps.org/ Community groups and local governments working to boost census response in historically hard-to-count neighborhoods will be able to target their efforts with a new web-based, interactive mapping site unveiled today by the City University of New York (CUNY) Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center. The Census 2010 Hard-To-Count Interactive Map (http://www.censushardtocountmaps.org/) not only pinpoints census tracts that the U.S. Census Bureau considers difficult to enumerate, it also displays the detailed demographic and housing characteristics that the Census Bureau believes will create challenges to achieving an accurate count in certain communities, allowing census advocates to tailor their activities and messages to address specific barriers, such as language difficulties or low educational attainment. The URL is http://www.censushardtocountmaps.org/. "This web site will help groups promoting 2010 census participation across the nation get the biggest bang for their buck by focusing precisely on the communities that will be hardest to count," said Steven Romalewski, director of the CUNY Mapping Service. "The tool will also help these advocates communicate effectively with people in hard-to-count areas because the maps reveal why each location will likely face enumeration challenges." Mr. Romalewski pointed to language barriers, large numbers of renters, high poverty rates, and a prevalence of non-traditional households as some of the characteristics - alone or in combination - that the Census Bureau's research indicates will contribute to a difficult environment for the census. "The website provides visual evidence of those challenges with powerful maps and interactive data," he noted. The project's development represents an effective partnership between academia, business, nonprofits, and the philanthropic community. The mapping site was made possible by a grant from the Long Island-based Hagedorn Foundation and is supported by the Funders Census Initiative (FCI), a unique and unprecedented ad hoc coalition of foundations and philanthropic affinity groups interested in a fair and accurate census. "The decennial U.S. Census provides data that are critical to the welfare and equity of American society, and therefore to the philanthropic community," said Hagedorn Foundation Executive Director Darren Sandow. "Without special efforts to reach the most vulnerable, hardest to count residents, millions of our neighbors will lose essential human services as well as political representation. That's why we're supporting this extraordinarily sophisticated resource." The Leadership Conference Education Fund (www.civilrights.org), which is leading a national campaign in support of the 2010 census, is producing a video tutorial to help guide users through the site's features. The Leadership Conference is among dozens of nonprofits that have tested a beta version of the mapping tool and offered feedback to the development team. "The census is a critical tool for protecting the civil rights of every person living in the United States, from the drawing of fair voting districts to the enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination in education, employment and housing, which is why organizations like ours and our national and community-based partners have a real stake in ensuring no one is left out of the census," said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference Education Fund. "The CUNY interactive maps will be invaluable tools as we reach out to those communities, disproportionately minority and low-income, most at risk of being missed." The site incorporates Google Maps©; Google provided technical advice and access to server resources, in anticipation of heavy use among state and local governments and grassroots organizations working to boost census participation this year. The mapping tool is based on the Census Bureau's Tract Level Planning Database (http://2010.census.gov/partners/research/), which identified twelve population and housing characteristics associated with low mail response in the 2000 census. In addition to showing these characteristics within hard-to-count census tracts, the database shows tracts with low 2000 census mail return rates and high foreclosure risk. Site users can view hard-to-count census tracts within states, counties, metro areas, cities, and Tribal lands, as well as congressional districts and ZIP Codes. Location-specific links to the Census Bureau's web site allows users to access demographic and economic profiles of each area, including racial and ethnic composition, from either the 2000 census or American Community Survey (which replaced the census long form starting in 2005). Background: The Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research (CUR) (www.urbanresearch.org) is part of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). It undertakes many mapping initiatives and amplifies the spatial dimension of research undertaken by CUR, including that of the CUNY Data Service and New York City Labor Market Information Service. The Mapping Service's expertise lies in the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to understand, visualize, and analyze data sets for a variety of urban planning issues including demographic change, land use trends, social service availability, educational needs, public health, and environmental quality. In addition to Mr. Romalewski, the CUNY Mapping Service team that developed the Census 2010 Hard To Count site includes David Burgoon, Application Architect, and Christina Spielman, GIS Design Consultant. The Funders Census Initiative (http://funderscommittee.org/funderscensusinitiative) was established in late 2008 and has since worked at the national, state, and local levels to direct resources to nonprofits for 2010 census outreach and promotion activities targeting underserved communities and hard-to-count populations. The Hagedorn Foundation is a founding member of the FCI. The 2010 Census Planning Database uses six "person" characteristics: • language isolation; • unemployment; • mobility; • below poverty level; • receiving public assistance; and • no high school diploma ... ... and six housing characteristics: • crowded housing; • multi-unit buildings; • lack of telephone in home; • vacancy rate; • renter occupied;and • complex households ... ...to calculate "hard-to-count" scores, ranging from 0 - 132 for every census tract in the country. The new mapping site uses a threshold score of 61 or higher to identify hard-to-count census tracts. The cutoff score of 61+ identifies roughly the top 20% of all tracts nationwide that are the hardest-to-count. The Census Bureau's hard-to-count scores do not incorporate mail response rates or race and Hispanic origin in the calculation but research shows a strong correlation between hard-to-count neighborhoods, low mail response, and high percentages of people of color. Mail response rates represent the percent of all housing units, occupied and vacant, which do not return a census form by mail; final response rates build on this measure to include telephone responses and late mail returns. Mail return rates represent the percent of occupied housing units (e.g. households) that return a form by mail or respond by telephone. None of these measures include responses from the second major census operation - door-to-door visits to collect information from unresponsive homes (called Nonresponse Follow-Up). Census News Briefs and Census News Flashes are prepared by Terri Ann Lowenthal, an independent legislative and policy consultant specializing in the census and federal statistics. All views expressed in the News Briefs are solely those of the author. Please direct questions about the information in this News Brief/Flash to Ms. Lowenthal at TerriAnn2K(a)aol.com. Please feel free to circulate this document to other interested individuals and organizations. Previous Census News Briefs are posted on The Census Project web site at www.thecensusproject.org. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA Resource Center Planning Team 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443

14 years, 3 months

Re: ctpp-news Digest, Vol 71, Issue 1 (Out of Office)

by Benito PEREZ

Good day, I am out of the office as of January 11th. I will return back on January 25th. If you need immediate assistance, please contact Andy Pickard at 757-420-8300 or apickard(a)hrpdcva.gov. Thank you and have a pleasant day. Benito O. Pérez Transportation Engineer Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization 723 Woodlake Drive Chesapeake, VA 23320 Tel: 757-420-8300 Fax: 757-523-4881 bperez(a)hrpdcva.gov www.hrpdcva.gov www.hrtpo.org www.keephamptonroadsmoving.com

14 years, 3 months

RE: [CTPP] Latest "Status Report" Newsletter (out of office)

by Rob CASE

I will be out of the office for several days, and plan to return on Jan. 25. >>> ctpp-news 01/24/10 20:44 >>> Ed- Would you mind changing my email and contact information for this listserve? I tried to log in but there were problems. I am sorry we didn't get a chance to catch up at TRB.....Thanks. Regards, Maren Maren Outwater Resource Systems Group, Inc. 917 E. Spooner Rd. Fox Point, WI 53217 425-269-9684 moutwater(a)rsginc.com ________________________________ From: Ed Christopher [mailto:edc@berwyned.com] Sent: Thu 12/31/2009 7:41 AM To: ctpp-news maillist Subject: [CTPP] Latest "Status Report" Newsletter The most recent CTPP newsletter is now available. It can be viewed as a PDF at http://www.trbcensus.com/newsltr/sr1209.pdf Contained in the newsletter are articles on the latest information about the CTPP program from AASHTO; an overview of some beginning steps underway in the TAZ delineation process; highlights of the 2010 Census (Remember to be counted this April); an article on commute differences by gender; a brief list of employment data sources as well as a review of of a TRb paper dealing with model-based synthesis of household travel survey data. An HTML version of the newsletter is also available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ctpp/sr1209.htm -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443 _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news -------------------------------------------------------------------- All e-mail correspondence to and from this address are subject to the Washington State Public Records Act, which may result in monitoring and archiving, as well as disclosure to third parties upon request.

14 years, 3 months

Latest "Status Report" Newsletter

by Ed Christopher

The most recent CTPP newsletter is now available. It can be viewed as a PDF at http://www.trbcensus.com/newsltr/sr1209.pdf Contained in the newsletter are articles on the latest information about the CTPP program from AASHTO; an overview of some beginning steps underway in the TAZ delineation process; highlights of the 2010 Census (Remember to be counted this April); an article on commute differences by gender; a brief list of employment data sources as well as a review of of a TRb paper dealing with model-based synthesis of household travel survey data. An HTML version of the newsletter is also available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ctpp/sr1209.htm -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 4749 Lincoln Mall Drive, Suite 600 Matteson, IL 60443

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