Office of Planning, Environment, & Realty (HEP)
Planning
The Travel Model Improvement Program (TMIP), established in 1994, began as a partnership of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct research as well as deliver technical assistance and training to local, regional and state transportation planning professionals. A core part of the TMIP mission is the transfer of improved travel analysis technologies and practices to staff at state and local planning agencies. The TMIP website disseminates event information and supports an information clearinghouse for travel model resources. TMIP, in partnership with TRB, supports an online community of practice to improve the flow of information and ideas among researchers, consultants, and agency practitioners.
The eight-part series on Forecasting Land Use Activities concluded in December. If you missed any of them (or if you have colleagues that may not have attended), recordings of all eight webinars can be found in the webinars section of the Web site. Nearly 900 participants logged in over the course of the series that began in February. That represents close to 1,800 person-hours of continuing education for the travel modeling community