ctpp-news October 2013

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FW: Census Bureau News -- Census Bureau Media Advisory Commuting Products to be Embargoed

by Chuck Imbrogno

Apologies to all. Meant to forward to folks in-house. Hit "send" before changing the "recipients" field. Chuck Imbrogno -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Imbrogno Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 4:11 PM To: 'ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net' Subject: RE: [CTPP] Census Bureau News -- Census Bureau Media Advisory Commuting Products to be Embargoed Shannon, Chuck: FYI - See bottom of this e-mail chain for the "Media Advisory" from the Census Bureau regarding the Commuter Flow data that Tom Fontaine asked about earlier today. Data was "embargoed" by the Census Bureau. Available to the media at noon today, but not released publicly to everyone else (including us) until midnight tonight. Bob Schwartz should be downloading the file sometime in the morning. Chuck Imbrogno -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Graham, Todd Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 7:32 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: Re: [CTPP] Census Bureau News -- Census Bureau Media Advisory Commuting Products to be Embargoed Census Bureau wil be releasing data and reports on commuting patterns next week. If you have Census PIO embargo access, you'll be able to dig into it as early as Monday afternoon. This is a new product -- so I'm not sure how the data will be structured -- anyone know? Enjoy. --Todd Graham Metropolitan Council Research ________________________________________ From: U.S. Census Bureau [census(a)subscriptions.census.gov] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 9:54 AM Subject: Census Bureau News -- **Census Bureau Media Advisory** Commuting Products to be Embargoed FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013 Public Information Office CB13-39 301-763-3030 email: <pio(a)census.gov> ***CENSUS BUREAU MEDIA ADVISORY*** Commuting Products to be Embargoed The U.S. Census Bureau's Public Information Office will offer an embargo period next week for members of the media to view a series of commuting products. Statistics will be available for every county in the U.S. showing the number of workers that commute in or out and which counties those commuters travel to and from. Additional reports and tables, based on statistics from the American Community Survey, examine U.S. residents traveling across county and state lines to work. Specifically, the products present U.S. workers who have commutes of 60 minutes or longer and workers who have "mega commutes" of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles. Statistics will also be available for every county in the U.S. that show the number of workers that commute into or out of the county and which counties those commuters travel to and from. The reports and tables will be posted to the Census Bureau's embargo site at noon EST Monday, March 4. The public release will be at 12:01 a.m. EST Tuesday, March 5. Wire and distribution services are prohibited from distributing embargoed news releases and data files to subscribers before the public release date and time. If you are interested in scheduling a radio interview on Tuesday, March 5, please contact the U.S. Census Bureau Public Information Office at 301-763-3030. _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news

10 years, 5 months

It's Alive! CTPP 5-year data

by Weinberger Penelope

At long last the CTPP 5 year small area data is (a)live and can be accessed by clicking take me to the data at the following URL: http://ctpp.transportation.org/Pages/5-Year-Data.aspx A tutorial that shows the software's functionality is available at: http://ctpp.transportation.org/Documents/CTPP_tutorial_v02.pdf Web tutorials are available at: http://www.youtube.com/user/CTPPProgram Please see the message below for more information and known issues. From: Weinberger Penelope Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:27 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: CTPP 5-year data The CTPP 5-year data, based on ACS 2006 - 2010 Census Data, will be released tomorrow Thursday, October 31, 2013, the URL to access the data will be published here. The CTPP Data Access Software is a powerful tool to access the nearly 350 gigs of data provided by the Census Bureau. The Data set consists of almost 200 residence based tables, 115 workplace based tables and 39 flow tables (Home to work) for over 325,000 geographies. The data are derived from two American Community Survey microdata record sets based on the 2006 - 2010 ACS. One set is the original microdata; all tables derived from this set are designated A, the other set is a disclosure proofed microdata set; all tables derived from this set are designated B. That is to say, the first letter in the table name indicates the set from which the table was derived. For more information on disclosure proofing, please access the CTPP e-Learning module "Disclosure Proofing" at: http://ctpp.training.transportation.org/ The software contains a robust map tool, for both selecting geography and rendering results. Results can also be presented as various style charts and tables that can be rearranged to suit your analysis and display needs. Data from the tool can be downloaded as comma or semi colon delimited .csv, .xml, .shp, .tab. Some things to be aware of: This is a new software release and it is possible you may find some errors and bugs as you use it. Please use the CTPP Feedback form available in the Help menu to report any problems encountered. (Version 1.1 release, already planned for the near future, reflects corrections to issues discovered after Beta testing.) Please consider this a Gamma version. A PDF tutorial is available in the Help menu and covers much of the software functionality teaching a sample application. The context sensitive (on-line) help has some bugs that are currently being addressed. A series of short film tutorials is available on the CTPP YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/CTPPProgram. The YouTube tutorials include a software tour, how to register/logon, opening and rearranging a table/accessing basic data; Geography selection by list and map; Calculating percentages; and Display maps and thematic analyses. If, after you have exhausted all resources you are still having trouble please contact pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger@aashto.org> for a walk through, but please try to find your solution from available resources first. Training is rolling out both in person and online, we will keep you posted. Downloads are limited to 100,000 cells. If you need to download large tables they will need to be split up and stitched back together in excel (or another program). We are developing a background downloader for large files. In the meantime, if you simply want all the data for your entire area, send a message to pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger@aashto.org> and a set with appropriate documentation will be made available for FTP download. Any very large data set is unsupported and for power users, comfortable manipulating large data sets in statistical software packages that they are already licensed to use. Geographies can be aggregated and margins of error will be correctly re-calculated, but non-standard (user created) saved geographies cannot be mapped - we are working on this. Until approximately January 2014, the data set available does not include workplace data for TAZs with zero (0) populations. This means that any TAZ which consists solely of a special generator (i.e., an airport, a shopping mall, a business park, the pentagon, etc.) does not have its associated workplace data or flow to it available. This is being rectified and a new dataset will be released around January, 2014 that corrects that problem. Fortunately, the data is available at tract even for zero pop tracts, so you can get the data at smallish, just not smallest, level and you can do TAZ to Tract flows Penelope Z. Weinberger CTPP Program Manager AASHTO 202-624-3556 ctpp.transportation.org

11 years

FW: It's Alive! CTPP 5-year data

by Weinberger Penelope

From: Weinberger Penelope Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:41 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: It's Alive! CTPP 5-year data At long last the CTPP 5 year small area data is (a)live and can be accessed by clicking take me to the data at the following URL: http://ctpp.transportation.org/Pages/5-Year-Data.aspx A tutorial that shows the software's functionality is available at: http://ctpp.transportation.org/Documents/CTPP_tutorial_v02.pdf Web tutorials are available at: http://www.youtube.com/user/CTPPProgram Please see the message below for more information and known issues. From: Weinberger Penelope Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 5:27 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net<mailto:ctpp-news@chrispy.net> Subject: CTPP 5-year data The CTPP 5-year data, based on ACS 2006 - 2010 Census Data, will be released tomorrow Thursday, October 31, 2013, the URL to access the data will be published here. The CTPP Data Access Software is a powerful tool to access the nearly 350 gigs of data provided by the Census Bureau. The Data set consists of almost 200 residence based tables, 115 workplace based tables and 39 flow tables (Home to work) for over 325,000 geographies. The data are derived from two American Community Survey microdata record sets based on the 2006 - 2010 ACS. One set is the original microdata; all tables derived from this set are designated A, the other set is a disclosure proofed microdata set; all tables derived from this set are designated B. That is to say, the first letter in the table name indicates the set from which the table was derived. For more information on disclosure proofing, please access the CTPP e-Learning module "Disclosure Proofing" at: http://ctpp.training.transportation.org/ The software contains a robust map tool, for both selecting geography and rendering results. Results can also be presented as various style charts and tables that can be rearranged to suit your analysis and display needs. Data from the tool can be downloaded as comma or semi colon delimited .csv, .xml, .shp, .tab. Some things to be aware of: This is a new software release and it is possible you may find some errors and bugs as you use it. Please use the CTPP Feedback form available in the Help menu to report any problems encountered. (Version 1.1 release, already planned for the near future, reflects corrections to issues discovered after Beta testing.) Please consider this a Gamma version. A PDF tutorial is available in the Help menu and covers much of the software functionality teaching a sample application. The context sensitive (on-line) help has some bugs that are currently being addressed. A series of short film tutorials is available on the CTPP YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/CTPPProgram. The YouTube tutorials include a software tour, how to register/logon, opening and rearranging a table/accessing basic data; Geography selection by list and map; Calculating percentages; and Display maps and thematic analyses. If, after you have exhausted all resources you are still having trouble please contact pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger@aashto.org> for a walk through, but please try to find your solution from available resources first. Training is rolling out both in person and online, we will keep you posted. Downloads are limited to 100,000 cells. If you need to download large tables they will need to be split up and stitched back together in excel (or another program). We are developing a background downloader for large files. In the meantime, if you simply want all the data for your entire area, send a message to pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger@aashto.org> and a set with appropriate documentation will be made available for FTP download. Any very large data set is unsupported and for power users, comfortable manipulating large data sets in statistical software packages that they are already licensed to use. Geographies can be aggregated and margins of error will be correctly re-calculated, but non-standard (user created) saved geographies cannot be mapped - we are working on this. Until approximately January 2014, the data set available does not include workplace data for TAZs with zero (0) populations. This means that any TAZ which consists solely of a special generator (i.e., an airport, a shopping mall, a business park, the pentagon, etc.) does not have its associated workplace data or flow to it available. This is being rectified and a new dataset will be released around January, 2014 that corrects that problem. Fortunately, the data is available at tract even for zero pop tracts, so you can get the data at smallish, just not smallest, level and you can do TAZ to Tract flows Penelope Z. Weinberger CTPP Program Manager AASHTO 202-624-3556 ctpp.transportation.org

11 years

CTPP 5-year data

by Weinberger Penelope

The CTPP 5-year data, based on ACS 2006 - 2010 Census Data, will be released tomorrow Thursday, October 31, 2013, the URL to access the data will be published here. The CTPP Data Access Software is a powerful tool to access the nearly 350 gigs of data provided by the Census Bureau. The Data set consists of nearly 200 residence based tables, 115 workplace based tables and 39 flow tables (Home to work) for over 200,000 geographies. The data are derived from two American Community Survey microdata record sets based on the 2006 - 2010 ACS. One set is the original microdata; all tables derived from this set are designated A, the other set is a disclosure proofed microdata set; all tables derived from this set are designated B. That is to say, the first letter in the table name indicates the set from which the table was derived. For more information on disclosure proofing, please access the CTPP e-Learning module "Disclosure Proofing" at: http://ctpp.training.transportation.org/ The software contains a robust map tool, for both selecting geography and rendering results. Results can also be presented as various style charts and tables that can be rearranged to suit your analysis and display needs. Data from the tool can be downloaded as comma or semi colon delimited .csv, .xml, .shp, .tab. Some things to be aware of: This is a new software release and it is possible you may find some errors and bugs as you use it. Please use the CTPP Feedback form available in the Help menu to report any problems encountered. (Version 1.1 release, already planned for the near future, reflects corrections to issues discovered after Beta testing.) Please consider this a Gamma version. A PDF tutorial is available in the Help menu and covers much of the software functionality teaching a sample application. The context sensitive (on-line) help has some bugs that are currently being addressed. A series of short film tutorials is available on the CTPP YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/CTPPProgram. The YouTube tutorials include a software tour, how to register/logon, opening and rearranging a table/accessing basic data; Geography selection by list and map; Calculating percentages; and Display maps and thematic analyses. If, after you have exhausted all resources you are still having trouble please contact pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger@aashto.org> for a walk through, but please try to find your solution from available resources first. Training is rolling out both in person and online, we will keep you posted. Downloads are limited to 100,000 cells. If you need to download large tables they will need to be split up and stitched back together in excel (or another program). We are developing a background downloader for large files. In the meantime, if you simply want all the data for your entire area, send a message to pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger@aashto.org> and a set with appropriate documentation will be made available for FTP download. Any very large data set is unsupported and for power users, comfortable manipulating large data sets in statistical software packages that they are already licensed to use. Geographies can be aggregated and margins of error will be correctly re-calculated, but non-standard (user created) saved geographies cannot be mapped - we are working on this. Until approximately January 2014, the data set available does not include workplace data for TAZs with zero (0) populations. This means that any TAZ which consists solely of a special generator (i.e., an airport, a shopping mall, a business park, the pentagon, etc.) does not have its associated workplace data or flow to it available. This is being rectified and a new dataset will be released around January, 2014 that corrects that problem. Fortunately, the data is available at tract even for zero pop tracts, so you can get the data at smallish, just not smallest, level and you can do TAZ to Tract flows Penelope Z. Weinberger CTPP Program Manager AASHTO 202-624-3556 ctpp.transportation.org

11 years

CTPP Status Report October 2013 Issue is Online

by Liang Long

Hi, FHWA just published the CTPP Status Report October 2013 issue. There are some interesting articles. If you are confused by the employment data from ACS, CPS and LEHD, there is an article called" Counting workers: Comparison of Employment Data for CPS, ACS and LODES". There is another article for employment data "How hard is it to count workers? Challenge of counting telecommuters". And, of course there is an update on the CTPP program from AASHTO and also an update from Census 2020. The link is: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census_issues/ctpp/status_report/sr100113.… Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 0100 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

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Census Data Alternatives

by Krishnan Viswanathan

Now that the govt shutdown has taken our favorite data websites down, many of us are searching for alternatives. Here is a list of alternatives from Opennews call (https://etherpad.mozilla.org/opennews-calls-Oct9). I am sure you all can add other sources as well and hopefully will find this useful: Links describing what's up, down, and alternatives: - http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/08/how-to-get-census-data-duri… - http://businessjournalism.org/2013/10/01/shutdown-closes-federal-databases-… - FYI, congress is still up: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php / http://beta.congress.gov/ - IRE data library http://ire.org/blog/ire-news/2013/10/01/ire-keep-data-library-open-during-g… - Quandl has mirrors of some datasets http://www.quandl.com/help/sources#US+Bureaus+and+Agencies - IRE maintaining spreadsheet on "Government Data Availability" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgpfEpjOJpeEdEV1UnNxbHRkb1RKTn… - Amazon snapshots of Census data: http://censusreporter.tumblr.com/post/55886690087/using-census-data-in-post… - On CensusReporter, all comparison data available in CSV, JSON. E.g. http://censusreporter.org/compare/01000US/040/map/?release=acs2011_1yr&tabl… (under "Download") - http://enigma.io is furnishing hackers and journalists with public data during the shutdown: https://twitter.com/enigma_io/status/385158274959835137 - Knight granted in the prototype fund a grant to "CrossCloud" http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2013/6/25/introducing-cros… which might find interesting solutions on federated data and api calls - Missouri State Data Center: http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/ for SF and ACS data. -- Krishnan Viswanathan 5628 Burnside Circle Tallahassee FL 32312

11 years

AUTO: Bruce Spear is out of the office. (returning 10/12/2013)

by Bruce Spear

I am out of the office until 10/12/2013. I will be checking my email sporatically during this time, so I may not reply to your message right away. Note: This is an automated response to your message "ctpp-news Digest, Vol 116, Issue 4" sent on 10/8/2013 1:00:01 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Re: [CTPP] CTPP Training Opportunity

by Liang Long

Sorry that I forgot to mention that the training will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m Eastern Standard Time. Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 0100 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com From: Liang Long/wdc/camsys To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net, Date: 10/07/2013 05:09 PM Subject: CTPP Training Opportunity Good afternoon, Attached is information regarding the AASHTO training session, which is scheduled for Tuesday, October 8th from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m (Yes, it's tomorrow!). The training will be provided via Adobe Connect and below is information on how to participate remotely. However, you are more than welcome to join us in person ? Penelope Weinberger, AASHTO CTPP Program Manager, will be at MaineDOT in Room 227A&B for the training. If you plan on attending in person, please Penny Vaillancourt (penny.vaillancourt(a)maine.gov, cell: 207.592.5189). This is an intermediate training level course intended for data users who work on long-range plans, congestion management, travel forecast, air quality analysis. Here?s what you?ll need for the training: 1. Computer/internet/phone line (laptop required if attending training at MaineDOT); 2. Sign into the adobe connect session using the URL provided by MaineDOT and conference call information; and 3. Review training material prior to the session at: http://ctpp.training.transportation.org/index.html Adobe Connect Info: Audio Conference Details: Conference Number: +1 8774550244 Conference Code: 3325486654 To join the meeting: http://stateofmaine.adobeconnect.com/r8vf0zo6a0b/ ---------------- If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before: Test your connection: http://stateofmaine.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat and Adobe Connect are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. ---------------- Sorry for the short notice and hope you can join us! Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 0100 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

11 years, 1 month

CTPP Training Opportunity

by Liang Long

Good afternoon, Attached is information regarding the AASHTO training session, which is scheduled for Tuesday, October 8th from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m (Yes, it's tomorrow!). The training will be provided via Adobe Connect and below is information on how to participate remotely. However, you are more than welcome to join us in person ? Penelope Weinberger, AASHTO CTPP Program Manager, will be at MaineDOT in Room 227A&B for the training. If you plan on attending in person, please Penny Vaillancourt ( penny.vaillancourt(a)maine.gov, cell: 207.592.5189). This is an intermediate training level course intended for data users who work on long-range plans, congestion management, travel forecast, air quality analysis. Here?s what you?ll need for the training: 1. Computer/internet/phone line (laptop required if attending training at MaineDOT); 2. Sign into the adobe connect session using the URL provided by MaineDOT and conference call information; and 3. Review training material prior to the session at: http://ctpp.training.transportation.org/index.html Adobe Connect Info: Audio Conference Details: Conference Number: +1 8774550244 Conference Code: 3325486654 To join the meeting: http://stateofmaine.adobeconnect.com/r8vf0zo6a0b/ ---------------- If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before: Test your connection: http://stateofmaine.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm Get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat and Adobe Connect are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. ---------------- Sorry for the short notice and hope you can join us! Liang Long Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 4800 Hampden Lane Suite 800 Bethesda, MD 20814 tel 301 347 0100 fax 301 347 0101 FHWA 202-366-6971 e-mail llong(a)camsys.com www.camsys.com

11 years, 1 month

CTPP Training!

by Weinberger Penelope

CTPP Training Opportunity in the Northeast! Census Transportation Planning Products Program (CTPP) Training is chiefly aimed at data users at the MPO and State. It is appropriate for consultants and students as well. This training is designed for anyone who is required to work on long range planning, congestion management, travel forecast, air quality analysis. Data users whose job requirements include being able to figure out who is going where and when will benefit from this training. CTPP training is one full day, hands on, and computer lab based. Participants will engage in discussion, practice analytical skills through exercises, learn to navigate the NEW CTPP software for five-year CTPP, and leave with a better understanding of what transportation data are available and what are the avoidable pitfalls to using them. CTPP will be doing hands on training in the first two weeks of October in the following locations: Shippensburg, PA (Oct 1) Piscataway, NJ (Oct 10) If you are available and would like to register, please contact me off-list - pweinberger(a)aashto.org and I will tell you how!

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