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So long, Farewell ... to CTPP from Elaine Murakami

by Elaine.Murakami＠dot.gov

To all my CTPP friends and colleagues - I am busily cleaning up my office, and thought I'd take a break to send you a note to say "Goodbye." FOR CTPP TECHNICAL SUPPORT, PLEASE CONTACT CTPPSUPPORT(a)CAMSYS.COM<mailto:CTPPSUPPORT@CAMSYS.COM> OR CALL JJ ZANG AT 301-347-9130 I am happily headed toward my retirement, after 22.8 years with Federal Highway Administration, 9 years with the Puget Sound Regional Council, and 2 years with Los Angeles County. It has been fun to recollect some of the projects I've worked on both at PSRC and FHWA. At FHWA, in particular, I pushed for more GIS at small and medium-sized MPOs and we used an add-on to ArcGIS for TAZ delineation for CTPP2000 in the mid-1990s. The transportation community was a key supporter to retain the decennial census "long form" in the Census 2000. It has been fun to guide the CTPP for the CTPP2000 and work with AASHTO on the 2006-2010 CTPP using ACS. We have been leaders in developing e-learning systems and using webinars for training. It has been nearly 20 years since the Lexington KY GPS study (1996), which used a Sony MagicLink hand-held computer and a Garmin GPS unit. We had to pay over $200 for a 2 MB memory card! That is NOT a typo - it was 2 MB, NOT 2 GB. We truncated the GPS points at the front end of the lat/long coordinates because we needed to save as much space as possible while collecting 1-sec GPS points. This was done when "Selective Availability" was still on. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/lextrav.pdf Also, on the survey methods front, I worked on an SBIR project using web-based mapping for conducting a household travel survey in 1998. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/trb/rsgrpt.pdf And most recently, worked again with the Madison County COG and RSG on a Smartphone app for a travel diary. I hope you are aware of the Transportation Secure Data Center www.nrel.gov/tsdc<http://www.nrel.gov/tsdc> that I championed where we have been archiving GPS travel survey data from MPOs and State DOTs. Some people have asked me what I plan to do, so I have included photos from a few quilts I have made. I plan to have a lot more time to sew, and also want to teach teenagers how to sew, in an after-school program. See you at TRB annual meeting in January! Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460 I will be retiring on Sept 30, 2015 Home email ermurakami(a)gmail.com<mailto:ermurakami@gmail.com>

10 years, 9 months

Last day to submit ABJ30(1) poster abstracts

by Mara Kaminowitz

The Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, ABJ30(1) invites you to submit posters for a session focusing on the innovative use of multiple data sets including Census data for transportation planning and related applications. Posters will be displayed at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 2016. Authors of the most innovative posters may be invited to present at the subcommittee meeting. Abstracts are due Friday, September 11, 2015. More information, including what to send and who to send it to, can be found at trbcensus.com/CallforPosters2016.html *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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Reminder - ABJ30(1) Call for posters: Uses of Multiple Data Sets for Transportation Planning

by Mara Kaminowitz

The Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, ABJ30(1) invites you to submit posters for a session focusing on the innovative use of multiple data sets including Census data for transportation planning and related applications. Posters will be displayed at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 2016. Authors of the most innovative posters may be invited to present at the subcommittee meeting. Abstracts are due Friday, September 11, 2015. More information, including what to send and who to send it to, can be found at trbcensus.com/CallforPosters2016.html 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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Re: [CTPP] Job Posting: Transportation Modeler at DCHC MPO/City of Durham

by Zhang, Yanping

Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metro Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) is the regional organization responsible for transportation planning for the western part of the Research Triangle area in North Carolina, and a subdivision of Department of Transportation , City of Durham, NC. DCHC MPO/City of Durham is now accepting applications for one (1) transportation modeler. Please click on the link below, and then do the job application. http://durhamnc.gov/1473/City-Jobs<http://agency.governmentjobs.com/durhamnc/default.cfm?action=viewJob&jobID=…> Job Title: Transportation Modeler Job Type: Full time with benefits Company: DCHC MPO/City of Durham Location: 101 City Hall Plaza, Durham, North Carolina Position Salary: $54,046.00 - $86,473.00 Annually Hiring Range: $54,046.00 - $64,800.00 Annually To work with the general public, private sector, and regional agencies; as well as, local, state and federal governments in delivering a multi-modal transportation system. This is accomplished by performing model specifications, estimations, calibrations, validations, maintenance, traffic demand forecasts, policy analysis, traffic simulations, and scenario testing. Other duties include providing technical support for the transportation system performance measures and need assessments; prioritizing the Transportation Improvement Program and Long Range Transportation Plan; and presenting scenario outcomes and project results to the regional technical and policy stakeholders. Duties/Responsibilities: * Manages the multi-modal travel demand model application to regional long-range/metro transportation plan and air quality conformity analysis. Responsible for developing, enhancing, and maintaining the Triangle Regional Model (TRM). * Develops Advance Land Use Model; provides Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) lead support for the development, estimation, programming, calibration, validation, application and documentation of travel demand and land use models. * Manages and supervises technical activities for Multi-Million Transportation Capital Investment. * Develops projects and demand forecasts using Travel Demand Model; performs Transportation Model applications. * Supervises and trains interns by monitoring and directing work activities; provides guidance and support; and manages agendas and schedules. * Supports and contributes to the MPO 3-C Transportation Planning process. * Manages planning special projects and performs statistical analysis for department. Minimum Qualifications & Experience: * Work requires broad knowledge in a professional or technical field. Work requires professional level of knowledge of a discipline equivalent to that which is acquired in a Bachelor's degree-level of study or equivalent in Civil/Transportation Engineering, Transportation Planning or a related field. * Five or more years of experience of progressive and relevant experience in travel demand modeling or an equivalent combination of education and directly related travel demand modeling experience. * Valid North Carolina Class "C" driver's license or obtain a valid North Carolina Class "C" driver's license within 60 days of hire. Additional Preferred Skills: * Computer programming skills (VB, JAVA, C++ or similar), and database programming would be desirable. * Proficiency in statistics, including logit model, would be a plus. * Experience in landuse model, especially UrbanSim, would be a plus. * Experience in TransCad and GISDK would be desirable. Yanping Zhang DCHC MPO/City of Durham

10 years, 9 months

nationwide tracts and block groups

by Mara Kaminowitz

I created a nationwide file of 2015 vintage Census tracts and block groups for a project. If anyone wants them, they can be found at http://www.northarrow.org/data.html 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

10 years, 10 months

Question about Inclusion of Students in JTW Data

by Cook, Cliff

A question has come as to whether employed students living in dormitories are included in the 2006-10 CTPP JTW tables. Researching the question, I found the following on p. 66 of the 2013 ACS Subject Definitions document, under the definition of employed persons (http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/tech_docs/subject_definitions/2…): Beginning in 2006, the population in group quarters (GQ) is included in the ACS. Some types of GQ populations have employment status distributions that are different from the household population. All institutionalized people are placed in the "not in labor force category." The inclusion of the GQ population could therefore have a noticeable impact on the employment status distribution. This is particularly true for areas with a substantial GQ population. For example, in areas having a large state prison population, the employment rate would be expected to decrease because the base of the percentage, which now includes the population in correctional institutions, is larger. I interpret this to mean that dorm residents, as noninstitutionalized group quarters residents, are included in CTPP statistics but want to confirm that my understanding is correct. My follow up question concerns the 1990 and 2000 JTW tables. Were employed dormitory residents (ie, noninstitutionalized group quarters residents) included in those statistics? My recollection is that is not the case but I want to confirm that is correct. Thanks Cliff Cook Clifford Cook, Planning Information Manager Cambridge Community Development Department 344 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. 02139 [cid:image001.png@01CF4355.A65408C0] <https://www.facebook.com/CDDat344> [cid:image002.jpg@01CF4357.3478C720] <https://twitter.com/cddat344> [cid:image008.jpg@01CF4357.3478C720] <http://cddat344.tumblr.com/> [cid:image010.jpg@01CF4357.3478C720] <http://instagram.com/cddat344> www.cambridgema.gov/CDD<http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD.aspx> ccook(a)cambridgema.gov<mailto:ccook@cambridgema.gov> M: 8:30-8:00 T-Th: 8:30-5:00 F: 8:30-Noon 617/349-4656 617/349-4669 FAX 617/349-4621 TTY

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