NEW TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATING CENSUS BUREAU DATA AND SOFTWARE WITH THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING SYSTEM

A technology transfer project between the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the Urban Mass Transportation Administration has made Census Bureau software products and simplified Census Bureau data-access procedures available to the users of the Urban Transportation Planning System (UTPS). The Census Bureau software systems for geocoding and computer mapping, as well as utilities for zone definition and area boundary extraction, have been integrated into UTPS by means of the UTPS Procedure Generation System (UGEN). These software products make census data and software more accessible to the transportation planning process. Geocoding provides linkage to census data areas, user-defined data zones, and geographic coordinates. The mapping software allows quick and easy data display. New software modules for a geographic-data-management system are also being developed. These include the creation of an integrated geographic data base, access methods for the data base, and specific application packages such as address matching. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Somers, Rebecca M
  • Jaro, Matthew A
• Conference:
  • 59th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1980-1-21 to 1980-1-25
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 12-17
• Monograph Title: Advances in urban transportation planning
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 771
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Census; Coding systems; Information processing; Integrated systems; Mapping; Software; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Integration
• Old TRIS Terms: Coding
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00334152
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 030903115X
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 28 1981 12:00AM