NCHRP Report 401. This guidance manual contains procedures for identifying, collecting, organizing and using data for transportation planning purposes. Specific discussions are included on strategic assessments of data needs, a framework for organizing data, cost effectiveness of data and the integration and consistency of data. The guidance contained herein will be of interest to planners in state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs). Two additional project reports are available on the Internet's World Wide Web: the agency's (1) Final Report and (2) Compendium of Data Collection Practices and Sources. TRB, 1997. 31 pp.

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Transportation Data and Information Technology
Category: Transportation Planning/Transportation Program Administration 

This is Transportation Research Record No. 1768. The reports in this volume were included in the program for the 80th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Board in January 2001, and focus on transportation planning and administration. TRB, 2001. 267 pp., ISBN No: 0-309-07230-1. 

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Transportation Planning Council Awards

General Documents and Texts

Transportation Planning and Land Use

Metropolitan Transportation Planning

Transportation Demand Management

Linking Planning and Operations

Travel Demand Forecasting/Modeling

Data in the Transportation Planning

Transportation Safety Planning

Rural and Small Community Transportation Planning

Transportation Finance and Public Policy

Transportation Planning and the Environment

Citizen Participation in the Transportation Planning Process

Provides an overview of adaptation of the concept of GIS for transportation The report discusses the research approach and steps to implement the use of GIS in transportation agencies. NCHRP Report 359. TRB, 1993, 69 pp. 

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Information Needs to Support State and Local Transportation Decision Making into the 21st Century, Conference Proceedings 14
Category: Models-Planning/Transportation Program Administration/Transportation Studies 

These conference proceedings (from the March 2-5, 1997 conference in Irvine, CA) cover the recommendations participants made regarding the data needed to improve state and local transportation decision making in the future. Among the critical information-related challenges are how to (a) take advantage of new data-collection and dissemination technologies; (b) improve data-collection efficiency with no new net burden; (c) produce and deliver the right information to decision makers; (d) effectively measure system performance; and (e) respond to new demands for information from the public and other organizations. A major focus of the conference was the development of findings to assist the U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies in their development of new data-related activities aimed at improving transportation planning at all levels of government. National Academy of Sciences 1997, 70 pp., ISBN No.: 0-309-06206-3 

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Statistics with Application to Highway Traffic Analyses
Category: Transportation Studies

Presents the concepts of statistics for non-statisticians. Topics covered include summarizing data, probability and probability distributions, fundamentals of statistical inference, and some applications of statistical methods in highway traffic analyses. ENO, 1978, 179 pp.

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