During the 2017 National Regional Planning Conference, Penelope Weinberger shared information about Census Transportation Planning Products, American Communities Survey, and many other sources of information for planning.
1. CTPP ACS NHTS LEHD NPMRDS HEPGIS
Data and Tools for
Regional Planning
Penelope Z. Weinberger
CTPP Program Manager
AASHTO
6/29/2017
National Regional
Transportation Conference
2. What are We Here For?
• Data
• Applications
• Approaches
• The Future!
• Your Stuff
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3. Data Sets
• I Can Talk About
– ACS (Census Data)
– CTPP
– NHTS
– LEHD
• I’d rather not talk
about
– NPMRDS
– HEPGIS
– Bluetooth/Probe
– LEHD
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5. 2010 Census vs. ACS
2010 Census: ACS:
• Everyone in the U.S. • 3.54 million addresses/year
• U.S. population count
• Estimates of the population
and housing characteristics
• Demographic characteristics
only
• Demographic, social,
economic and housing
characteristics
• Every 10 years • Every year
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6. Commuting Data and the ACS
Commuting data now collected on the ACS, which
began in 2005.
ACS questions related to commuting are the same as
those on the 2000 Census Long Form
The ACS only asks about work trips
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7. Transportation Questions on the ACS
• Means of transportation
• Occupants per Vehicle
• Time leaving home for work
• Travel time to work
• Place of work
• Vehicles per household
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8. Strengths of ACS
Transportation Data
• Survey data, collected continuously
• Available for small areas
• Comparability across years and geographies
• Includes margins of error for quality checks
• Rich set of demographic characteristics
• Several ways to access the data depending
on user needs
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2014 American Community Survey. Table S0801.
0.6
1.2
2.7
4.5
5.2
9.2
76.5
Bicycle
Other means of travel
Walked
Worked at home
Public transportation
Carpooled
Drove alone
Percent of workers
How People Travel to Work: 2014
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Sources: U.S Census Bureau. Census 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000; American Community Survey 2006, 2010, 2014.
Universe: Workers 16 years and older.
64.0
77.7
84.1 86.5 87.9 86.7 86.3 85.7
64.4
73.2 75.7 76.0 76.6 76.5
19.7
13.4 12.2 10.7 9.7 9.2
1960
Census
1970
Census
1980
Census
1990
Census
2000
Census
2006
ACS
2010
ACS
2014
ACS
Percent of workers
Percent of Workers who Commuteby Automobile
in the UnitedStates:1960 to2014
Total Automobile
Drove Alone
Carpooled
12. New ACS Supplemental Tables
• New 2014 ACS Supplemental Tables released on AFF in
late July.
• 58 Tables focused on basic demographics.
• Available for selected geographies of at least 20K.
• Tables use prefix “K”.
• Two basic commuting tables:
– K200801 Means of transportation to work
– K200801 Travel time to work.
• Search tip: Type K* to call all tables starting with prefix K.
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18. Census Shapefiles with
Pre-Joined ACS Data
• Tigerline Shapefiles with pre-joined ACS
demographic data
• Layers available down to the block group
level
• More than 60 tables attached to shapefiles
• Detailed tables (not collapsed version)
https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-
data.html
19. Census Explorer Mapping Tool
• www.census.gov/censusexplorer/
• Maps selected ACS variables for Census 1990,
Census 2000, and 5-year ACS
• Census Explorer Commuting Edition:
– Drove alone, Carpooled, Transit, Walk, Bicycle
– Average Travel Time
– Percent traveled 60 minutes or longer
21. Resources for Census Products
• Census Bureau General assistance with AFF
301-763-INFO (4636) or 800-923-8282
• Census.gov FTP Technical Support
301-763-2626
• Census 2020 Support
census.2020.program.management.review@census.gov
• Journey to Work and Migration Statistics Branch
301-763-2454
22. What is the CTPP?
An AASHTO sponsored data program funded by
member State transportation agencies
Operates with support from FHWA, OST-R, FTA,
Census Bureau, MPOs and TRB
The program includes:
Data products
Training and technical assistance
Research
Designed for the transportation community
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MPOs
Arash Mirzaei, NCTCOG
Jim Hubbell, MARC
Shimon Israel, MTC
Tom Faella, LAPC
MaryAnn Waldinger, COMPASS
Benjamin Gruswitz, DVRPC
Vacant
States
Laine Heltebridle, PA (Region I)
Greg Slater, MD (Region I)
Vacant (Region II)
Jessie Jones, AR (Region II)
Phillip Mescher, IA (Region III)
Jennifer Murray, WI (Region III)
Soheila Khoii, CA (Region IV)
Erik Sabina, CO (Region IV)
Ex Officio Members
Ken Cervenka, FTA
Ed Christopher, Consultant
Alison Fields, Census Bureau
Matt Hardy, AASHTO
Bill Keyrouze, AMPO
Brian McKenzie, Census Bureau
Tom Palmerlee, TRB
Alan Pisarski, Consultant
Steven Polzin, USF. CUTR
Clara Reschovsky, OST-R, BTS
Erich Zimmermann, NARC
JJ (Jing Jing) Zang, Technical Adjunct
Chair: Tracy Larkin-Thomason, NV (Region IV)
Vice Chair: Guy Rousseau, ARC
AASHTO Liaison:: Penelope Weinberger
17 voting members: 9 states and 8 MPOs
Guided by an AASHTO Oversight Board
27. A brief (don’t blink) history
• Pop Quiz!
• When did the Journey to Work Question
first appear on the Census Form?
• How often is the Census collected?
• How about the American Community
Survey (ACS)
• Without data you’re just ____________
» W. Edwards Deming
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28. Buyers/Users Direct Cost Tables
1960 OMB ??? ???
1970 112 $0.6 M 43
1980 152 $2.0 M 82
1990 $2.5 M 120
2000 $3.0 M 203
2005 +
AASHTO
Consolidated
Purchase
$5.8 M
Multiple
Products
All States
and MPOs
Transformation over time
32. CTPP Data Concepts
Summarized data by
Place of Residence
Place of Work
Flows from Home to Work
Custom Geography (Local TAZs)
Unique Universes (e.g. workers in HHs)
33. 5-year Geography and Flows
● Asymmetrical
Flows (in red)
● Small Areas defined
by MPOs in MPO areas
and States Elsewhere
● Tracts are Defaults
for Small Areas
● Default TADs defined
by AASHTO
● UZA tables for
Part 1 ONLY
● MCD
Only
States
FROM / Residence TO / Workplace
State State
State-County State-County
State-County-MCD State-County-MCD
State-County-Place State-County-Place
MSA MSA
State-County State-Place
State-County-MCD State-Place
State PUMA (2000) State-Place
PUMA (2000) POW PUMA (2000)
Tract Tract
TAD TAD
Locally Defined Small Area Locally Defined Small Area
TAD Locally Defined Small Area
Locally Defined Small Area TAD
State-Place Locally Defined Small Area
Locally Defined Small Area State-Place
34. What we ended up with – for 5 year Tables
Eight Variables crossed with
Means of Transportation to work (MOT)
…and
35. Some Key Data Items Include
• 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
36. This sounds great, how do I get it?
• http://ctpp.transportation.org/Pages/5-
Year-Data.aspx
• Free
• No log in required (but useful and
recommended)
• 350GB of data!
• Produced inexpensively…
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37. The Future
• ’s so bright _________________
» Timbuk 3
• ________ Is the Passport to the Future
» Malcolm X
• Alvin Toffler describes it as too much
change in too short a period of time
• ____ the ____ if you would divine the
future
» Confucius
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Five year Tables (2012 to 2016)
Same Structure as 2006 to ’10 CTPP
Same Software with Enhancements
No TAZ changes
Available Late 2018
Some Table Changes (adds and subtractions)
Next CTPP Data Product
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What Does this Mean?
The New and Improved Stuff
Added Flows from Places to Counties
Added Several Tables
Average HH Size (p1)
Poverty by Mode (p1, p2)
Class of Worker by [Industry, Time
Arriving, Mean TT, Mode] (p2)
Vehicles available by Number of
Workers in HH (p3)
Number of
2006-2010
CTPP Tables
Number of Tables
Deleted*
Number of Tables
Retained at Large
Geography Only
Number of All
Geography Tables
Retained
Total number of
tables retained
Overall 344 176 76 99 168
Part 1 187 85 48 56 102
Part 2 116 73 17 30 43
Part 3 41 18 11 13 23
Residence
Geo Level Number
Nation 12*
State 603*
County 3221
MCD 11958
Place 29514
MSA 374
Principal City692
PUMA 2101
UA 3625
Tract 74002
TAD 10867
TAZ 217526
Workplace
Geo Level Number
Nation 10*
State 499*
County 3221
MCD 11958
Place 29514
MSA 374
Principal City692
PUMA 1263
UA 0
Tract 74002
TAD 20867
TAZ 217526
*includes geo components
CTPP Oversight Board Tables Subcommittee Proposal Background for 2012 - 2016
Tables Proposal
The Census Bureau has directed us to request a special tabulation for our next 5-year data
product that is one third (1/3) the size of our current special tabulation. Additionally, we are
limited in the number of tables that can include all levels of geography; most tables will be
produced at census summary levels ofplace, MCD (for strong MCDstates), county, PUMA,
state, MSA (and principal city), and nation and the TAD custom geography (Large Geographies
Only). Only a few tables will also be available at Tract and TAZ (All Geographies).
Basic criteria for proposed elimination: tables that had been accessed by CTPP Data Access
Software users 150 times or fewer by Oct 6 2015, and had 5 or more recommendations for
elimination by the tab subcommittee.
Additionally, any table that did not fail thatcriteria, but had two or fewer recommendations
to retain it at small (tract and TAZ)geography was recommended for retention at large geo
only.
*number of tables deleted includes tables that are to be added back in thesoftware,
derivable from requested tables.
Contact me with your feedback at: pweinberger@aashto.org
For the complete table request look under the ‘resources’ directory
(folder) on the CD for the 12-16 Table Proposal 05 0602016.xlsx file
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CTPP Users Conference
Come to Kansas City for our 2017
CTPP Users Conference
http://trbcensus.com/maillist.html
Subscribe to the CTPP Users ListServ to be in the know
November 14-16, 2017
• Call for presentations coming, April 2017
• Featuring Student paper competition
• Four commissioned papers
• Breakout sessions and more
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conferences/2017/c
ensusdata/Announcement.pdf
44. What is the NHTS?
The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) is a periodic
national survey providing travel and transportation pattern
data to transport planners and policy makers in the United
States.
NHTS 2016:
•The latest and eighth in series of the National Household
Travel Survey (NHTS). The last one being in 2009.
•Data collected on trips taken by all members of
participating households over a 24-hour period.
Data
includes….Purpose of the trip Means of Transportation
Travel time of the trip Time of day/day of week
45. • What’s in the data?
– Household demographic information, Trip ODs, typical
commute, bike/walk/transit, VMT, health, vehicle/fuel type,
telecommuting, transit transfers, etc.
• How much is there?
– 26,000 national sample + 129,112 add-on sample
• How was it collected or generated?
– Mail (recruitment) + CATI/Web (retrieval)
• What time period is covered, and how frequently is
it released?
– 2016 NHTS = April 2016- April 2017
– Survey conducted every 5-7 years
• I want some! How do I get it?
– Public data set is downloadable from nhts.ornl.gov
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55. 2016 DATA COLLECTION:
•April 2016 – April 2017, with data collected across 365
days of the year.
•Data collection ended in early May 2017.
•Respondents were encouraged to record all travel, even if
“out of town” on travel day
•Complete household - 100% of all household members (5
years +) recorded travel
• Data collection ended with approximately 130,000
completed surveys.
PUBLIC RELEASE: Slated for early 2018PUBLIC RELEASE: Slated for early 2018
56. SPECIFIC CHANGES IN 2016 NHTS
QUESTIONNAIRE:
•Use of emerging modes such as Uber and Lyft
1. Options of Uber and Lyft has been added to
various questions on choice of mode.
2. Specific questions on Rideshare and carshare
added.
•Active Transportation questions
1. Walking or biking for exercise
2. Reasons for not walking/biking
57. COMING SOON:
•2016 NHTS Data Release in early 2018
• Add-on agencies scheduled to receive files in late 2017
•NHTS Conference – May 2018
•Also in 2018:
• Summary of Travel Trends
• Website Upgrade
58. Using NHTS at Census Tract
• Local Area Transportation
Characteristics for Households
– estimates of average weekday household
person trips, vehicle trips, person miles
traveled, and vehicle miles traveled, for all
census tracts
• https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.g
ov.bts/files/subject_areas/national_househ
old_travel_survey/about
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No commuting data on decennial census 2010
Means of transportation
*12 categories, including worked at home. Respondents are only asked to choose one mode, so multimodal trips are not captured. For example….drive from the suburbs to a park n’ ride, hop on a light rail
Occupants per Vehicle
*carpooling
Time leaving home for work
*hour and minute
Travel time to work
*one-way travel time in minutes
Place of work
*Respondents are asked for the address of the their workplace, or the intersection
*important for flow data, origin destination
Vehicles per household
5-year data only
Download tool and extract it from zip file form
The Census Bureau used two different forms to collect Census 2000 data.
A short form with seven basic questions went to all households and a long form with these same questions and additional questions went to a sample of households.
The information that is tabulated from the questions asked of every person and housing unit is called the100-percent or short-form data.
The long-form questionnaire included the same seven population and housing questions plus additional inquiries. This is called either the sample data, or the long-form data.
DEFINITIONS:
100% Data - Population and housing information collected for all living quarters in the United States.
Census - A complete enumeration (count) of a population or the business and commercial establishments, farms, or governments in an area.
Long form - The decennial census questionnaire containing 100 percent and sample questions.
Sample data - Detailed social, economic, and housing information collected on the long form from a selected portion of all housing units and people living in group quarters. The 1990 census sampled approximately 15 percent of the nation's population and 16 percent of its housing units. See 100 percent data.
Short form - The decennial census questionnaire containing only the 100 percent questions.
Intro, Trip Purpose, VMT, Best Mile,
Raw data for the last 5 surveys: multiple formats: SAS Dbase and ASCII, replicate weights are used to calculate standard errors, roster file provides info on all HH members, transferability groups households together by location type- allows users to have larger data sets to perform their analysis
Read them off
These tables represent the most popular NHTS tabulations including average VMT by mode, or number of person trips by age; various formats: HTML, Excel and Table Designer-
You can search the FATs- Let’s look at mode: Number of Person Miles by Mode and Purpose
Person Trips by Bike/walk over the years, can download as CSV
Enter an email address to create highly customized tabulations, your account will keep a log of past tables.
Can create one way, two way, three way (allows for state by state tables) tabulations
Codebook link to select variable
Focus on Bike/walk, change to WHYTRP90 (round trip), use variable categories- comparing purposes for bike/walk trips
Various statistics: Sample size, Cell percent, Row percent, Column percent, Weighted sample size, Margin of Error can take a while (so at least for today do not select this one)
Customized categories, variables, subgroups
Help window provides tips and step-by-step instructions
3 way, annual person trips, mode, 1990 Trip Purpose, MSACAT, Subgroup: MD, VA, DC 9 (with 2015, we will likely see a very large increase in bike trips due to bike share system)
Can use housing units/people per square mile; 0 vehicle HHs- if you are trying to capture a particular demographic
We can go back to the edit tools-