CENSUS DATA USE IN ILLINOIS BY A LARGE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION

This paper is the second in a series of four that document the uses of census data by the transportation community in Illinois. It focuses on the use by the largest metropolitan planning organization (MPO) in the state--the Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS)--of the Census Transportation Planning Package. The other papers in this series discuss the uses of the census data by smaller MPOs, transit planners, and the research and academic community. CATS has had a rich history working with the census data, specifically the journey-to-work data. However, unlike smaller MPOs, CATS has used the census data as an adjunct to supplement its own travel surveys. In general terms, these uses have included factoring and adjusting other surveys, producing descriptive reports, conducting special studies and analyses, and developing models.

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• Authors:
  • Christopher, E J
• Conference:
  • Decennial Census Data for Transportation Planning: Case Studies and Strategies for 2000
  • Location: Irvine, California
  • Date: 1996-4-28 to 1996-5-1
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 21-32
• Monograph Title: DECENNIAL CENSUS DATA FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: CASE STUDIES AND STRATEGIES FOR 2000. PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE, IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 28 - MAY 1, 1996. VOLUME 2: CASE STUDIES
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 13
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adjustment factors; Case studies; Census; Conferences; Mathematical models; Reports; Studies; Transportation; Transportation planning; Travel surveys; Work trips
• Identifier Terms: 1990 Census; Census Transportation Planning Package; Chicago Area Transportation Study
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation models
• Geographic Terms: Illinois
• Old TRIS Terms: Adjustments; Data uses
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00737950
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309059704
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jun 17 1997 12:00AM