1. Census Transportation Planning Products (CTPP) Program Overview Jennifer Finch, CO DOT Chair, CTPP Oversight Board June 18, 2010 1

2. 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). 2

3. 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

4. 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 4

5. 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 5

6. OMB required- Metro Areas Coded to City or County No Special Tabulations 1960 Census “long form” – journey to work question added Historic Background 6

7. Historic background Buyers/UsersDirect CostTables 1960 OMB ??? 1970 Individual contracts (112) $0.6 M43 1980 Individual contracts (152) $2.0 M82 1990 Nationwide covering all States and MPOs $2.5 M120 2000$3.0 M203 “2010”$5.8 M200* 7

8. 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 8

9. 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 9

10. 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 10

11. CTPP Program Activities and Costs Develop specialized data products63% Conduct research, training and outreach21% Manage the program3% Unallocated balance12% Total Program Costs$5,844,332 5-Year Program: 2008-2012 11

12. CTPP Oversight Board 17 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 12

13. CTPP Oversight Board Ex-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+ Members CTPP Federal Technical Advisory Group TRB Subcommittees– List Serve (830 Members) & Quarterly Newsletters 13

14. 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_profiles.html http://ctpp.transportation.org/profiles_2005- 2007/ctpp_profiles.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 underway 14

15. CTPP Key Contacts Penelope Weinberger AASHTO CTPP Program Manager 202-624-3556 pweinberger@aashto.org pweinberger@aashto.org Brian McKenzie Census Bureau JTW & Migration Statistics 301-763-6532 b rian.mckenzie@census.gov@census.gov http://ctpp.transportation.org 15