Census Transportation Planning Products (CTPP)

Program OverviewJennifer Finch, CO DOTChair, CTPP Oversight Board

June 18, 2010

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What is the CTPP Program

The CTPP is an umbrella program of data products, custom tabulations, training, technical assistance, and research for the transportation community.

CTPP uses data from U.S. Census Bureau, including American Community Survey (ACS).

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Overview of the CTPP Program

• CTPP is an AASHTO sponsored data program funded by member state transportation agencies

• CTPP operates with support from FHWA, RITA, FTA, Census Bureau, MPOs and TRB

• The CTPP program includes: – Data products– Training and technical assistance– Research

• Designed for the transportation community 3

Applications of CTPP

• Performance measurement

• Modal share analysis• Environmental justice• FTA New Starts/Small

Starts• Travel Demand

Modeling

• Livability analysis• Corridor planning• Air quality modeling• Trend analysis• Descriptive statistics• Travel forecasting

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CTPP Data Sources

• CTPP uses data from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS).

• The ACS replaced the decennial census “long form” and requires accumulation of data over multiple years for small area tabulation– 1 Year of data for places with 60,000+ people

– 3 Years of data for places with 20,000 + people

– 5 Years of data for smaller geographic areas, e.g. TAZs

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OMB required-Metro Areas

Coded to City or County

No Special Tabulations

1960 Census “long form” – journey to work question added

Historic Background

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Historic background

Buyers/Users Direct Cost Tables

1960 OMB ??? ???

1970 Individual contracts (112)

$0.6 M 43

1980 Individual contracts (152)

$2.0 M 82

1990Nationwide

covering all States and MPOs

$2.5 M 120

2000 $3.0 M 203

“2010” $5.8 M 200*

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Key CTPP Variables• Data on Households

– Size, income, vehicles per household• Data on Workers

– Age and gender, occupations, earnings• Data on Journey to Work

– Usual mode to work, commuting time, work departure time

• Data on Workplaces– Work locations, times of arrival at work

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Key CTPP Data Products

• Transportation Profiles for state, county and place

• CTPP 3-Year Data Products– Data access and visualization tools

• CTPP 5-year Data Products– TAZ development– Data access and visualization tools

• National Data Products

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Additional CTPP Products

• Training and technical support– On-call user support– Training classes and web seminars

• Research– Integration of data sources– Disclosure avoidance

• Sharing of best practices, successes, challenges and constraints

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CTPP Program Activities and Costs

Develop specialized data products 63%Conduct research, training and outreach 21%Manage the program 3%Unallocated balance 12%

Total Program Costs $5,844,332

5-Year Program: 2008-2012

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CTPP Oversight Board17 Voting Members – 9 States, 8 MPOs

10 Ex-Officio Members

• Jennifer Finch – Chair, CO• Jonette Kreideweis, Vice

Chair, MN• Laine Heltebridle, PA • Nathan Erlbaum, NY• Hui Wei Shen, FL• Paul Agnello, VA • Phillip Mescher, IA• Ahmad Jaber, UT• Ayalew Adamu, CA

• Kuo-Ann Chiao, NYMTC• Steven Gayle, BMTS• Mell Henderson, MARC• Arash Mirzaei, NCTCOG• Guy Rousseau, ARC• Clara Reschovsky,MWCOG• Pete Swensson, TRPC• Vacancy• Penelope Weinberger,

AASHTO, CTPP Program Manager

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CTPP Oversight BoardEx-Officio Members

• Ed Christopher, FHWA• Alison Fields, Census

Bureau• Rich Denbow, AMPO• Elaine Murakami, FHWA

• Robert Padgette, APTA• Alan Pisarski, Consultant• Steven Polzin, USF. CUTR • Nanda Srinivasan, TRB• Ken Cervenka, FTA

AASHTO Census Data Work Group With 30+ MembersCTPP Federal Technical Advisory Group

TRB Subcommittees– List Serve (830 Members) & Quarterly Newsletters

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CTPP Accomplishments To Date

• State, Local and County Profiles for 2005-2007 are completed and posted at the AASHTO website– http://ctpp.transportation.org/profiles_2005-2007/ctpp_pr

ofiles.html

• 3-Year CTPP should be delivered to FHWA and AASHTO in late June, with web-based delivery no later than September 2010

• Data access software: Alpha version delivered May 2010. Beta version coming in July.

• Training: webinars, on-site training and E-learning modules (contract signed)

• Plans for a TRB Census Conference in fall 2011 are underway14

CTPP Key Contacts

• Penelope Weinberger

AASHTO

CTPP Program Manager

202-624-3556

pweinberger@aashto.org

• Brian McKenzie

Census Bureau

JTW & Migration Statistics

301-763-6532

brian.mckenzie@census.gov

http://ctpp.transportation.org

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