Census Transportation Planning Package for Urban Areas Now Available from DOT
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DOT 54-97
BTS Product Line
202-366-DATA
Ernest Wilson
Technical Support
202-366-6664
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Wednesday, April 16, 1997 -- U. S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater today announced that the
Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP) for urban areas is now available
on CD-ROM from the department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
The CTPP urban package contains characteristics of persons, workers and
households for traffic analysis zones, census block groups or census tracts,
depending on local preferences. The CTPP is a set of special tabulations of 1990
census data tailored to meet the data needs of transportation planners. Two sets
of data packages were produced from the 1990 census: packages for each state
and the District of Columbia, released in 1994, and the urban packages for each
"CTPP region" defined by Metropolitan Planning Organizations.
The 1990 CTPP is a continuation of a program established for the 1970
census and continued for the 1980 census in the same general format. Production
of the 1990 CTPP by the Bureau of the Census was sponsored by the state
departments of transportation under a pooled funding arrangement with the
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Funding to
develop the CTPP program was provided by the department's Federal Highway
and Federal Transit Administrations.
As with the statewide packages, to make the data contained in the CTPP
computer tapes easily accessible and widely
available, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics is releasing the urban package
on CD-ROM and providing software to display and retrieve the data.
Dr. T. R. Lakshmanan, Director of BTS, said, "We are pleased to be part of
this project, which shows how federal, state, and metropolitan agencies can work
together to create effective information for transportation decision making. BTS
is working with its federal partners to include the journey-to-work
questions in the year 2000 Census so that we can continue to serve state and local
decision makers with this successful information base into the 21st Century."
For technical assistance in using this CD-ROM, contact Ernest Wilson,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, at (202) 366-6664. For inquiries related to
the subject content or the methodology of the CTPP statistics, contact the Journey-to-Work and Migration
Statistics Branch, Bureau of the Census, at (301) 457-2454.
To order a copy of the CD-ROM, contact the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics by phone at (202) 366-DATA, FAX on (202) 366-3640,
or by writing the Bureau of Transportation Statistics at BTS/DOT, 400 Seventh
Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590. The data also may be ordered on the
Internet worldwide web at http://www.bts.gov under "Products and Services."
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