Recent articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc. have stated
that the average number of delay hours spent per year by rush hour drivers
is 62 hours in the US and 136 in Los Angeles.    There is an interest in
comparing Anchorage to these national statistics.  Is this information
available through the CTPP or another census database?
I would appreciate any help?

Jon Spring
Senior Transportation Planner
Municipality of Anchorage
Traffic Department
springjr@ci.anchorage.ak.us
(907) 343-7994

-----Original Message-----
From: Kazimi, Zia [mailto:zkazimi@state.mt.us]
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:40 PM
To: Ctpp-news
Subject: [CTPP] FAQ's

I was wondering how other states are dealing with FHWA's quazi-official (all
I've seen are the FAQ's on their website) implementation guidelines applying
2000 Census data to urban areas.   I haven't seen anything from FHWA similar
to what the US Bureau of Census put out in the March 15, 2002 Federal
Register.

Are we to assume that these Internet site FAQ's take precedence over what
currently exists under USC Title 23?  FHWA guidelines have been known to
change depending on public input.  The bottom line is, we need to start
identifying our urban boundaries (deadlines are coming up - e.g. HPMS) and
yet, I don't believe we have a clear mandate on how to proceed.  Is this
just a backdoor approach without going through a formal process or am I
missing something?

I would appreciate any thoughts on this.  Thanks.

Zia Kazimi
Urban Planning
Montana Department of Transportation

These statistics appear to derive from the Texas Transportation Institute's 2002 Urban Mobility Report, which can be downloaded from its Web site at http://mobility.tamu.edu.  The annual delay per peak road traveler for Anchorage is given as 4 hours in Exhibit A-5 on page 59 of the report.

Glen Ahlert
Staff Director
Lee County MPO
Fort Myers, Florida