1. TransCAD
User’s Guide
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2. Flintbury’s Bus System
Three stages:
Create a map showing Flintbury’s bus routes with bands of various distances around the routes
Use a bus survey to obtain information on the riders
Create and print a layout summarizing our results
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3. Stage 1: Making a Map of the Bus Routes
Open practice.map
Add a Route System File to the Map
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5. Use the Zoom Tool
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6. Create Bands Around the Bus Routes
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8. Build Overlays
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9. The population that lives within each of the bands.
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10. Stage 2: Finding Out about the Passengers
We’ll use the results of a major survey of Flintbury bus riders to find out more about the passengers.
Open the Survey File
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12. Locate by Address
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15. Change the Style
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16. Compute Statistics
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17. Hide Columns in the Dataviewor
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18. Select Features by Location
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20. Compute Statistics on a Selection Set
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21. Produce a Tabulation of Wait Time
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22. 67% wait 11 minutes or less
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23. Create a Histogram
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25. Stage 3: Creating a Layout
We’re going to arrange our map, dataview, and chart on one page, called a layout.
A layout lets you arrange any number of maps, dataviews, and matrices on a printed page, along with freehand text and other items.
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26. Create a New Layout
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27. Drag a rectangle across the left side of the page.
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28. Resize
Add a Title
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