Dear CTPP Users,

You can now download CTPP 2000 Part III detailed Geography files from the BTS� Transtats site beginning May 21, 2004.  Together, with previously released Part III flat files, the complete set of CTPP 2000 Part III preliminary tables have been released.

Please note that the Part III data are PRELIMINARY, and are undergoing evaluation by State DOTs and MPOs. Once these agencies examine the data and ensure that there were no processing errors, Census Bureau will finalize the data, and we will post the final files to the BTS TranStats Website. Data documentation, SAS programs, and MS Access Template are provided in the zipped folder for each state. For questions on these files, please contact Nanda Srinivasan at FHWA (Phone: 202-366-5021, e:mail: nanda.srinivasan@fhwa.dot.gov).

A big thanks goes to the BTS Transtats team members for making these files available to us in such a short time frame.

Hope all of you having great fun playing with the data.

With regards,

Pheny Smith, Ph. D.

Office of Advanced Studies

Bureau of Transportation Statistics