Resources

Summary Report for the Peer Exchange on Data Transferability, December 16, 2004
    http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/services/peer_exchange/reports.stm or direct at
    http://www.edthefed.com/xferability/articles/tmip_data_transferability_peer.pdf
    Background information from the December 16, 2004 Peer Exchange (.doc file)

Greaves, Stephen (2004), “Simulating Household Travel Survey Data.” Presented at International Conference on Travel Survey Methods. August 2004, Punta Renas, Costa Rica http://www.its.usyd.edu.au/isctsc/costarica_papers/resource/B8%20-%20Resource%20Greaves.pdf

Xu, Min; P. Stopher, and S. Greaves (2004) “Using Nationwide Household Travel Data for Simulating Metropolitan Area Household Travel Data,” Paper presented at TRB Conference on 2001 National Household Travel Survey, November, 2004, Washington, D.C. http://www.trb.org/conferences/nhts/Xu.pdf

Ruescher, T.; R. Schmoyer; and P. Hu “Transferability Of Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey Data To Regional And Local Scales” http://npts.ornl.gov/npts/1995/doc/transfer.pdf

Urban Travel Demand Forecasting Use http://nhts.ornl.gov/2001/presentations/index.shtml (this is list of presentations only)

Agarwal, Ashish, A Comparison of Weekend and Weekday Travel Behavior Characteristics in Urban Areas, Masters Thesis updating many of the NCHRP 365 tables using the 2001 NHTS. Thesis submitted to Ram M. Pendyala, University of South Florida, May 2004. (This is a 3 meg PDF that must be viewed in Acrobat 5.0 or higher.)

NCHRP 365

ID: 00755175

Title: TRAVEL ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES FOR URBAN PLANNING

Author: Martin, WA; McGuckin, NA

Corporate Author: Transportation Research Board Barton-Aschman Associates, Incorporated

Series: NCHRP Report 365

Pages: 178p Date: 1998 ISBN: 030905365X ISSN: 00775614

Project Number: Project 8-29(2) FY '95

Features: 50 Fig. 79 Tab. Refs.

Abstract: This report updates NCHRP Report 187, "Quick-Response Urban Travel Estimation Techniques and Transferable Parameters" (1978). It provides a thorough review of the four-step travel demand process and transferable parameters that can be used in simple planning analyses. It will be particularly useful to planners in smaller urban areas that cannot afford to develop area-specific parameters. A case study illustrates how the techniques and parameters can be applied in a typical study.

Status: AVAILABLE FROM TRB BOOKSTORE

Availability: http://nationalacademies.org/trb/bookstore

Wilmot, Chester G. and Peter R. Stopher. “Transferability of Transportation Planning Data” in TRR 1768, pp 36 –42. National Academy Press.Washington, D.C 2001.

Venigalla, Mohan.TRIMM. Final report to Mike Savonis, FHWA. “Vehicle Activity and Personal Travel Inputs to Emission Models.”March 2004. (http://www.edthefed.com/xferability/TRIMM-FinalReport.pdf 1.2 meg)

Beckman, R.J., K.A. Baggerly and M.D. McKay (1995), “Creating Synthetic Baseline Populations,” Transportation Research A, Volume 30A, Number 64, pp. 415-429.

Abstract: To develop activity-based travel models using microsimulation, individual travelers and households must be considered. Methods for creating baseline synthetic populations of households and persons using 1990 census data are given. Summary tables from the [U.S.] Census Bureau STF-3A are used in conjunction with the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), and Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) is applied to estimate the proportion of households in a block group or census tract with a desired combination of demographics....It is shown that the joint distributions created by these methods do not differ substantially from the true values. Additionally the effects of small changes in the procedure, such as imputation of additional demographics and adding partial counts to the constructed demographic tables are discussed in the paper.

TRANSIMS document re: using Census PUMS data to populate small geographic areas.

Chapter Two: Contents (Population Synthesizer – 1 March 2001 – LA-UR 00-1725 – TRANSIMS 2.0)

http://transims.tsasa.lanl.gov/MSWord_Files/U-Vol3-Chap2-PopSynth-Mar1.doc

Proposal to update NCHRP 365 (summer 2005) http://www.edthefed.com/xferability/articles/365 problem statement.doc