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Re: [CTPP] Job Posting - Senior Transportation Planner at DCHC MPO, Durham

by Zhang, Yanping

Position Description The purpose of this position is to support the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) Transportation Planning process (3C process), MPO administration and assist in the DCHC MPO Lead Planning Agency (LPA). The primary job duties include providing lead staff support for the management and operation and administration of the DCHC MPO activities. The position requires a self-starter with excellent written and oral communication skills and work well with minimum supervision. Other job responsibilities include: manage and participate in the MPO Board and the Technical Committee (TC) activities; participate in metropolitan area transportation systems planning efforts for roadways, public transportation, pedestrian & bicycle, TDM, and ITS; air quality conformity analysis and procedure; Transportation Improvement Program development; corridor/small area studies; and preparation of oral and written reports to staff, committees, and elected bodies. Duties/Responsibilities * Oversees MPO 3C and policy functions; * Updates MPO's TIP and SPOT; * Complies with federal and State transportation planning/MPO regulations and requirements; * Provides staff support for the development and update of the MPO long-range transportation plans; * Provides planning or engineering support to various program and project development teams; * Provides technical assistance to MPO member governments regarding multi-modal transportation matters; * Develops performance measures and project ranking/prioritization for long range plans, SPOT and TIP projects; * Analyzes data and management associated with MPO technical and planning activities; * Provides support for annual unified work program development, update and reporting needed; * Coordinates public involvement and outreach, including EJ and LEP activities; * Undertake in special projects such as GHG Emissions study, climate change, corridor studies, etc. Minimum Qualifications & Experience * Bachelor's degree in Urban and Regional Planning, City Planning, Civil/Transportation Engineering, Environmental planning or a related field; * Five years of progressive experience in transportation planning, MPO management, and operation and administration; * Valid North Carolina Class C driver's license or obtain within 60 days of hire. The position is open until filled. Please visit the link below to see the position description and application procedures: https://www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/1512713/senior-transportation-planner/a… Yanping Zhang DCHC MPO & Transportation Department, City of Durham

6 years, 9 months

CTPP Training Opportunity in Florida

by Weinberger Penelope

? [https://cdn.evbstatic.com/s3-s3/marketing/emails/invites/topcorners.gif] You are invited to the following event: CTPP Training <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ctpp-training-tickets-26812342438?ref=enivte00…> Multiple events from: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 12:00 PM - to - Friday, November 4, 2016 at 12:30 PM Attend Event <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ctpp-training-tickets-26812342438?ref=enivte00…> [https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/101315293/ctpp028129.jpg] Participants will engage in discussion, practice analytical skills through exercises, learn to navigate the CTPP software, and leave with a better understanding of what transportation data are available and what are the avoidable pitfalls to using them. Training Dates and Locations Sept. 14 - 12:00 pm to 4:30 pm and Sept. 15 - 8:00 am to 4:00 pm FDOT - Burns Auditorium - 605 Suwannee St, Tallahassee, FL 32303 Oct. 31 - 12:00 pm to 4:30 pm and Nov. 1 - 8:00 am to 4:00 pm FDOT District 4 Auditorium - 3400 West Commercial Boulevard, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309 Nov. 3 - 8:00 am to 4:00 pm and Nov 4 - 8:00 am to 12:30 pm CUTR at USF - 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CUT100, Tampa, FL 33620 Subjects Covered Understanding and Dealing with Data Issues * In-depth, ongoing discussion optimally resulting in better, smarter data users Transportation Data and How to Get It * CTPP, ACS, JTW-What do these acronyms mean? What agencies collect and produce these data? How accurate, current, reliable are they? What Kind of Data Is Collected and Where Is It? * Commutes, Tours, Modes. Websites, Search engines, Hard Files-What's out there, how is it found, how is it acquired? Census and CTPP Geography, Understanding It, Using It * Custom geography for planning applications CTPP Data Access Software * A hands-on, follow-along, in depth, tutorial: Attendees will create a profile of an area using many features of the CTPP Data Access Software Other Course Information *Attendees should complete the e-learning modules at: http://ctpp.training.transportation.org/ before attending the in-person class. Completion of the modules will enhance the attendees' learning experience and allow the instructors to cover the material more in-depth. * The training is best suited for practitioners wo will be using or analyzing Census data. * Attendees must bring (or share) a laptop that can access the Internet. * There is no software to upload prior to the class. We bring handouts and electronic media with the day's materials; the software is online. * No meals will be provided, so please feel free to bring your lunches/snacks to the classroom. Contact: Penelope Weinberger, AASHTO CTPP Program Manager pweinberger(a)aashto.org<mailto:pweinberger@aashto.org> Phone 202-624-3556 CTPP Training is free for participants and jointly sponsored by the Census Transportation Planning Products Program at AASHTO, and FHWA. [eventbrite] [https://cdn.evbstatic.com/s3-s3/static/images/django/util/line.gif] This invitation was sent to gabrielle.matthews(a)dot.state.fl.us<mailto:gabrielle.matthews@dot.state.fl.us> by AASHTO<http://www.eventbrite.com/org/11077942552> the organizer. To stop receiving invitations from this organizer, you can unsubscribe<http://www.eventbrite.com/inviteunsubscribe?email=gabrielle.matthews%40dot.…>. Eventbrite, Inc. | 155 5th St, 7th Floor | San Francisco, CA 94103 [Eventbrite]<http://www.eventbrite.com/home/?ref=eemail&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=e…>

6 years, 9 months

How to Obtain Workers Abroad Data by County of Residence

by Natalie Young

Hello CTPP Users, I am trying to use the CTPP software to obtain the number of residents of each county in Utah who worked outside the United States. I am using the 2006-2010 5-year dataset. Please let me known if you have any direction on how to obtain this data. I set all counties in Utah as my residence geography (29 counties). I selected all options for "Worked Outside United States" as the workplace geography (there are only 3 selections). I selected Part 3 - table A302100 (total workers 16 and over) as my data table. I receive the response that "no valid flows are available for your geographic selections - please modify." I have used CTPP to obtain flow data for the residents of each county in Utah and their workplaces in Utah or the USA, by county. Data on working outside the United States, however, is proving difficult. Is it possible to obtain this data through the CTPP software? Thank you, Natalie Young [Block U Logo] Natalie Young Research Analyst Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute The University of Utah Office: 801-587-9436 gardner.utah.edu

6 years, 9 months

Re: [CTPP] ctpp-news Digest, Vol 149, Issue 3

by Nancy McGuckin

Thanks for the shout out, Don! I did post this as a comment on TMIP: Just a note: in my experience home-based work is seldom the vast majority of morning peak travel: nation-wide it is about 40 percent of vehicle trips in the morning peak, when looking at metro level it can rise to 60 percent or so. Of course the evening peak is even less likely to have home-based work travel. In the 2009 NHTS, just under 20 percent of workers stopped for one or more reasons in the morning before going to work--a stop of 30 minutes or more. This estimate was much higher for women and people with children in the household. The percent of workers stopping during the commute is similar to the estimate in 2001, so while the percent of stops during the commute may not be growing it remains substantial. These are often 'pick-up/drop-off' trips, and it may pay to look at the passenger's purpose to understand what kind of trip (school, other workers, etc.) It is the case perhaps that the non-work travel vehicle travel occurs on arterial more than highways, and may be spread out rather than in the most congested corridors. But for overall vehicle travel estimation and flows we should keep in mind the impact of these non-work trips and stops. Nancy McGuckin Travel Behavior Analyst (323) 257-5144 N_McGuckin(a)Rocketmail.com website: www.travelbehavior.us On Friday, August 12, 2016 10:00 AM, "ctpp-news-request(a)chrispy.net" <ctpp-news-request(a)chrispy.net> wrote: Send ctpp-news mailing list submissions to ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://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. CTPP Flows and Traffic Assignments (Cervenka, Kenneth (FTA)) 2. Re: CTPP Flows and Traffic Assignments (Don Cooper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:09:18 +0000 From: "Cervenka, Kenneth (FTA)" <Kenneth.Cervenka(a)dot.gov> Subject: [CTPP] CTPP Flows and Traffic Assignments To: "ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net" <ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net> Message-ID: <BY2PR09MB06755A9DDB4002F1586ECCD08F1F0(a)BY2PR09MB0675.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, I sent the following to the TMIP (Travel Model Improvement Program) listserv earlier this morning, but since this is focused on CTPP, I would be happy to get comments from the CTPP group as well. It is somewhat common practice to compare district-to-district flows consisting of aggregations of TAZ-to-TAZ travel model outputs for Home-to-Work person trips to similar home-to-work aggregations based on CTPP flows. Since most AM peak period auto travel consists of home-to-work movements, what successes or failures have forecasters had in the use of TAZ-to-TAZ CTPP data in an AM peak period UE traffic assignment? Or some variation that might include enhancements to the commuter flow data to represent the (relatively small) non-commuter AM Peak vehicle travel and/or other adjustments to the CTPP's representation of home-to-work travel? I am aware of one test that notes the "lumpiness" of working directly with the TAZ-to-TAZ level CTPP data (with the end result being the %RMSE statistics do not look stellar), but am also aware of many forecasters who manage to squeeze good value out of whatever ground truth-based data is available. I am reluctant to bring up the "origi! n-destination matrix estimation" approach that can start with even a seed matrix of 1's in every TAZ to TAZ cell, but would be happy to hear of any CTPP-based efforts where the study has summarized how the "raw" CTPP trip table matrix compares to the final adjusted "seems to assign well" matrix. I am not expecting to see many responses that focus on use of CTPP in this type of exercise, and suggest that you reply directly to this listerv rather than just to me, since whatever info you might offer might inspire others to comment. But if there is some reason why that may be a problem, I am happy to get your comments directly to the email noted below (and can send to the full listserv without attribution to you). Thanks in advance, Ken Cervenka Ken.Cervenka(a)dot.gov<mailto:Ken.Cervenka@dot.gov>

6 years, 9 months

CTPP Flows and Traffic Assignments

by Cervenka, Kenneth (FTA)

Hello, I sent the following to the TMIP (Travel Model Improvement Program) listserv earlier this morning, but since this is focused on CTPP, I would be happy to get comments from the CTPP group as well. It is somewhat common practice to compare district-to-district flows consisting of aggregations of TAZ-to-TAZ travel model outputs for Home-to-Work person trips to similar home-to-work aggregations based on CTPP flows. Since most AM peak period auto travel consists of home-to-work movements, what successes or failures have forecasters had in the use of TAZ-to-TAZ CTPP data in an AM peak period UE traffic assignment? Or some variation that might include enhancements to the commuter flow data to represent the (relatively small) non-commuter AM Peak vehicle travel and/or other adjustments to the CTPP's representation of home-to-work travel? I am aware of one test that notes the "lumpiness" of working directly with the TAZ-to-TAZ level CTPP data (with the end result being the %RMSE statistics do not look stellar), but am also aware of many forecasters who manage to squeeze good value out of whatever ground truth-based data is available. I am reluctant to bring up the "origin-destination matrix estimation" approach that can start with even a seed matrix of 1's in every TAZ to TAZ cell, but would be happy to hear of any CTPP-based efforts where the study has summarized how the "raw" CTPP trip table matrix compares to the final adjusted "seems to assign well" matrix. I am not expecting to see many responses that focus on use of CTPP in this type of exercise, and suggest that you reply directly to this listerv rather than just to me, since whatever info you might offer might inspire others to comment. But if there is some reason why that may be a problem, I am happy to get your comments directly to the email noted below (and can send to the full listserv without attribution to you). Thanks in advance, Ken Cervenka Ken.Cervenka(a)dot.gov<mailto:Ken.Cervenka@dot.gov>

6 years, 10 months

Evaluating Possible Administrative Records Uses for the Decennial Census

by Krishnan Viswanathan

This might be of interest to members of this group. http://researchmatters.blogs.census.gov/2016/08/09/evaluating-possible-admi… Thanks, Krishnan

6 years, 10 months

SAS Question

by Ed Christopher

Below is a response to Mara's question that got bounced from the mail list since it was from a non subscriber. ------------------- Subject: RE: [CTPP] geocoding in SAS From: "Seitz, Leonard E@DOT" <leonard.seitz(a)dot.ca.gov> Date: 8/9/2016 11:43 AM To: "Portillo, Diana M@DOT" <diana.portillo(a)dot.ca.gov>, "ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net" <ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net> This SAS/Graph Procedure should work: Overview: GINSIDE Procedure The GINSIDE procedure compares a data set of X and Y coordinates to a map data set containing map polygons. The procedure determines whether the X and Y coordinates for each point fall inside or outside of the map polygons. If the point falls inside a polygon, then the ID variable is set to the ID value of that polygon. For example, if a map contains states, then the ID variable of the output data set is set to the state that contains the point. The GINSIDE procedure can be used with the SAS/GRAPH map data sets and the results can be used to annotate onto a map with the GMAP procedure. Note: Avoid unpredictable map results with points that fall on the border of a polygon by using the INCLUDEBORDER option. This option includes points that are on the border of a polygon in the output data set. These points are identified by the variable named _ONBORDER_ with a value of 1. Copyright © SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. -------------------------------------- From: Portillo, Diana M@DOT Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 8:38 AM To: Seitz, Leonard E@DOT <leonard.seitz(a)dot.ca.gov> Subject: FW: [CTPP] geocoding in SAS SAS Guru, Can you help? Thanks, Diana Portillo Research Program Specialist II Travel Analysis Group Multi-Modal System Planning 916-653-3182 -- Ed Christopher Transportation Planning Consultant 708-269-5237

6 years, 10 months

geocoding in SAS

by Mara Kaminowitz

Good morning, A colleague of mine at a local university has a SAS/GIS challenge and I am hoping someone on this list might know the answer. She is creating a data processing program entirely in SAS. The data had addresses as well as Lat/Longs for the addresses. One of the criteria is that the data processing program should determine which Census tract the addresses fall into. She needs to do this in the program, joining the points to the tracts in GIS beforehand is not an option. I immediately thought of the Census API's geocoding function but I have no idea if SAS can access it, or anything else about SAS for that matter. If anyone has any solutions, please feel free to e-mail me and I'll pass your message on. I can also put you in direct contact with my colleague if you want to discuss the problem in depth. Thanks, Mara *Mara Kaminowitz, GISP*GIS Coordinator ......................................................................... *Baltimore Metropolitan Council* Offices @ McHenry Row 1500 Whetstone Way Suite 300 Baltimore, MD 21230 410-732-0500 ext. 1030 mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org www.baltometro.org

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