PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DECENNIAL CENSUS DATA FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING - KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The FHWA and the Bureau of the Census have worked together over the last 30 years to provide information for a federally aided surface transportation program that incorporates a balanced role around the federal, state, and local governments. It is noted that conferences such as these are vital to the Bureau in their efforts to search the needs of the transportation constituency. Census data play a valuable role in accurately estimating future changes in social and demographic characteristics that affect travel habits, population shifts, and population growth and change. These forecasts then become the bases for estimating future highway needs and for developing funding recommendations. To maximize the effectiveness of the governments' response to these changes, it is critical that demographic and journey-to-work trends be monitored through a comprehensive program. Small area data on places of work and commuting patterns are critical. It is necessary to be able to evaluate the impact of both short- and long-term impacts. It is necessary to know the characteristics of existing traffic in traffic analysis zones. Information must be available at geographic levels that permit accurate impact analysis within traffic zones, and it must be available in a timely and useable manner. The Bureau of the Census has identified four issues of substantial interest: level of geographic coding for the place-of-work question; subject matter to be included in the questionnaire; overall sample size; and cost and who should pay for block traffic-analysis-zone coding. It is intended that this Conference will identify data needs and develop recommendations which can be used in designing the 1990 Census.
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- Proceedings of the National Conference on Decennial Census Data for Transportation Planning, Orlando, Florida, December 9-12, 1984. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
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Authors:
- Robertson, Richard B
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Conference:
- National Conference on Decennial Census Data for Transportation Planning, 1984, Orlando, Florida, USA
- Location: Orlando Florida, United States
- Date: 1984-12-9 to 1984-12-12
- Publication Date: 1985
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Pagination: pp 22-26
- Monograph Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DECENNIAL CENSUS DATA FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Board Special Report
- Issue Number: 206
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0360-859X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Analysis; Census; Coding systems; Conferences; Demographics; Federal government; Finance; Financing; Forecasting; Geographic information systems; Impacts; Information, data, and knowledge; Investments; Local government; Policy; Population growth; Recommendations; Sampling; Social factors; State government; Traffic; Transportation planning; Travel patterns; Work trips
- Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Highway Administration
- Uncontrolled Terms: Data needs; Traffic analysis
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Old TRIS Terms: Coding; Future policies
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Research; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00399316
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: Part I
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM