State Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations: As announced earlier this week, all the CTPP 2000 Part 3 files (journey-to-work flow data) are now available in ASCII format for downloading from the BTS TranStats website at http://www.transtats.bts.dot.gov. Unlike Parts 1 and 2, only these ASCII files will be available for Part 3 in a preliminary version for review by the State DOTs and MPOs. The reason for this is that we will not have a revised version of the CTPP Access Tool (CAT) software that can handle the Part 3 flow data soon enough to be used in the review. We encourage you to download the ASCII files for your area and evaluate the data as soon as you can. To assist you in your review we have provided a data dictionary, Microsoft Access template, and dbase specs file for Part 3. The files in Part 3 are more manageable than the previous CTPP 2000 data because there are fewer tables and the records are therefore shorter. However, there are large numbers of records in some of the files so the databases can still be quite big. Errors that come to our attention based on review of the ASCII files will be fixed before the CAT software version of the data become available. We expect to distribute the CAT software version of the final Part 3 data late this summer. Stay tuned to the CTPP listserve for details. --Phil Salopek Chief, Journey to Work and Migration Statistics Branch U.S. Census Bureau (301) 763-2454