GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF URBAN SPATIAL DATA BASES ---1987 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA
Many municipalities have implemented systematic transport demand monitoring programs in order to track travel demand changes over time. These monitoring programs are usually deficient in tracking changes in the spatial structure of commuting, household structure and the spatial distributions of the different employment types. Census data collected by statistics Canada provide an important additional source of information, but one of the impediments to the systematic use of census data has been the unavailability of appropriate computer software to allow these data bases to be interrogated on a routine basis by professionals who are not computer specialists. This paper describes a microcomputer package developed for the ibm/pc, xt and at series of computers that allows census type information to be displayed graphically on a computer monitor and to be plotted on a standard pen plotter. The paper describes the structure of the program and illustrates its use with census data collected in the Toronto census metropolitan area. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 807058.
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Corporate Authors:
Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
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Authors:
- Hutchinson, B G
- Publication Date: 1987
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: C25-C45
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Census; Computer programs; Conferences; Demand; Forecasting; Land use; Origin and destination; Planning; Transportation; Work trips
- Geographic Terms: Canada
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00487187
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 30 1989 12:00AM