Transportation Planning Tools Session 1: OnTheMap July 21, 2010

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1 Transportation Planning Tools Session 1: OnTheMap July 21, 2010 Sponsored by: Community Transportation Association (CTAA) and Center for Urban Transportation Research at USF

2 Co-sponsored by: Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida (USF) Commuter Choice Certificate Feed Your Mind Online training courses (1.25 hr per week) FREE for Florida residents Out-of-State residents $50 for 2-credit course $100 for 4-credit course

3 Co-sponsored by: Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida (USF) Commuter Choice Certificate: Upcoming Online Training Transportation Planning Tools-Help Wanted Online: Session 2 August 4 12:00PM Establishing Program Goals and Objectives: July/August Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): August/September Institutional Arrangements: September/October Location Aware Technology: October

Co-Sponsored by: Community Transportation Association (CTAA) The Joblinks Transportation Center: Connecting Communities with Transportation-to-Work Solutions The Joblinks Transportation

4 Co-Sponsored by: Community Transportation Association (CTAA) The Joblinks Transportation Center: Connecting Communities with Transportation-to-Work Solutions The Joblinks Transportation Center provides technical assistance to help communities link job seekers with transportation to work and other employment-related destinations. Visit us at x 720

5 Speakers Matthew Graham, U.S. Census Bureau Deb Smith, North Central Idaho District 2

6 Enhance Your Web Conference Experience Upper right hand corner of your screen Download copies of slides and other resources Provide your feedback to the speaker during the presentation

7 Direct Your Questions via Q&A 1. In upper left hand corner of screen click Q&A 3. Click Ask to submit 2. Type your question or comment in this box 4. Answered questions will appear here. We can reply to all or privately, depending on the nature of the question When answers are publicly posted, the name of the requester is not shown

8 Please Mute Your Phone You are automatically placed in LISTEN ONLY mode For even better sound quality, please MUTE YOUR PHONE

9 OnTheMap Version 4 Employment Data for Transit Matthew Graham, Geographer Center for Economic Studies/LEHD U.S. Census Bureau 21 July 2010

10 Local Employment Dynamics Partnership Federal-State Partnership State-supplied labor market data (UI & QCEW) National Scope and Data Access Decennial, ACS, Economic Census, etc. Free Data Products & Tools OnTheMap Detailed Geography QWI Detailed Employment Characteristics

11 Key Features of OnTheMap Annual Data New data/application release in Dec. Import/Export Tools Shapefiles, KML/KMZ, Lat/Lon User friendly GUI and Selection Tools Save, Share, Reload Analyses

12 General OnTheMap Process Find an analysis area Choose a few data settings Choose analysis type Run analysis and view results

13 Live Demo: OnTheMap Version 4

14 Find More Information Tutorials & Sample Analyses e-learning Video Info on Data and Application

15 Contacts Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Program Manager Other Questions

16 Case Study Deb Smith, Mobility Manager District 2, North Central Idaho

17 Deb Smith, District 2 Mobility Manager serves as a liaison for improving mobility in the district and throughout the state; identifies local mobility needs and creates partnerships to fill gaps in service; promotes locals mobility and transportation improvements; charged with cultivating partnerships with local service providers, local elected officials, and public entities.

18 Few Public Transit Options Idaho covers 82,747 square miles and has 1.5 million residents. District 2 encompasses five counties, is 13,500 square miles, has 102,000 residents of which 21% are over the age of 60 and there is an average poverty rate of 17%. Geographic challenges include rapidly changing elevation, winding roads and narrow bridges. Employment centers are located in the far west center of the district.

19 So, how DO you start a vanpool? Shameless plug for CTAA go to wer.asp?a=1442&z=75 or call x724

20 Where people who work on the reservation live

22 Next Steps: City of Moscow is acquiring another van and we are mapping bedroom communities that are home to high concentrations of University of Idaho employees; mapping area federal employees, including forest service and national park workers, who are eligible to recover up to $230 per month of vanpool costs; mapping area manufacturing clusters to identify vanpool and carpool opportunities.

23 Learn about your local workforce On the Map An Interactive Mapping Tool Where workers live? Where residents work? How far they commute? Where businesses are located? What are the workplace destinations of people living in a particular neighborhood? Where do young residents work? What are the ages and earnings of commuters? How many high-wage workers live along a transit corridor and work downtown? Where are new businesses likely to draw workers from? Where should we add new bus routes and bus stops? Where should new roads be added?

24 Information is not only available for counties, metropolitan areas, and WIA regions but also for smaller areas (Census divisions and tracts, zip code areas) and non-county areas (tribal lands, military bases, school districts, legislative and Congressional districts). Can search radiuses of as many miles as desired (i.e. 2- mile, 4-mile, 6-mile radius of a city).

25 To use Local Employment Dynamic, you need A standard Internet borrower (Firefox version 2.0 or higher, Internet Explorer version 7.0 or higher, or Safari version 3 or higher). A screen resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels is strongly recommended. Enable Pop-Up Windows in your browser settings in order to generate the led maps and reports To access LED: Use state workforce agency labor market information Websites or Go to Census Website. Look under Economics, find Local Employment Dynamics. Or go directly to: Or Google: Census Local Employment Dynamics or Census On the Map Once you re there, you can find several ways of learning about On the Map including elearning: And the tutorials at:

26 Community Economic Development (CED) Hot Reports include pertinent information Economic Industry wages Top industries Top occupation groups Labor force by age Education Levels Demographic Income Population Pyramid School Enrollment Housing Mortgage Averages Occupancy Status Ownership Rates Housing Costs Transportation Commute Times Means of Transportation Community Assets Public Schools Colleges and Universities

27 Examples of how we have used QWI: To see if turnover rates in manufacturing have increased over the last 15 years To see how many new hires there are despite the recession (used it to convince job seekers that there are actually some job openings these days) To see which industries have the highest proportion of baby boomers and will likely to be most swamped by upcoming retirements To see if teenagers were working in different variety of industries now than they were a few years ago To see which industries were hiring older workers To compare how the various age groups have fared during the recent recession

28 For easy to use instructions contact: Kathryn Tacke Regional Economist Lewiston Idaho Dept of Labor 1158 Idaho St. Lewiston, ID or Deb Smith District 2 Mobility Manager Lewiston Clearwater Economic Development Association th Avenue North Lewiston, ID dsmith@clearwater-eda.org

Virginia Workforce Connection

Virginia Workforce Connection Labor Market Information Presented by: Jeremy Deyo Database Administrator 2 LMI Home Easy access to the following: Labor Market Data Publications Resource Library Slide Shows