USES OF TRANSPORTATION AND PLACE-OF-WORK DATA FROM THE 1980 CENSUS

The papers presented in Part-II of this conference, Data User Experience with the 1980 Census, underscore the converging interests of the transportation community and other planners, analysts, and researchers. The growing constituency for decennial census data within the transportation community is suggested in the full three papers. The first paper examines, from the Florida perspective, a relatively new involvement of state transportation agencies in acquiring and using data from the decennial census. The second paper reviews the ongoing, traditional uses of Census data for urban transportation planning based on the Philadelphia experience. The third paper focuses on the particular needs of transit-based on nationwide experiences. The growing constituency beyond the transportation community for the transportation elements of the decennial census is suggested in the next four papers. One paper illustrates how the journey-to-work questions have been used by public agencies involved in economic development and social service planning in the New York area. Another paper describes the diverse uses of similar census data in Southern California by private firms for marketing, site selection, etc. Both public and private applications of the data by a Statewide constituency of small agencies, firms, and individuals in Pennsylvania is covered in a further paper. Another paper explains how one study is currently using the data to compare changes over time and among metropolitan areas in geography, demographics and travel patterns. This part of the Conference concludes with a paper that summarized comments by the users of the 1980 census and compares the comments with those of users of the equivalent data from the 1970 census.