Travel Model Improvement Program - TMIP

Registration is now open for the November 9 webinar: Dynamic Traffic Assignment #3: No Sweat, a More Detailed Look at DTA (Part 1). Our presenters for this third of four sessions are Jeff Shelton, Texas Transportation Institute and David Roden, AECOM.

Ask and you shall receive! Over the past couple of months we've asked you, the TMIP community, what books you would recommend to new transportation planners and modelers. And boy did you respond. Thanks to all of you that took the time to send in your suggestions. Now you may not find any of these titles on a particular celebrity's book club list, but we've compiled the ones mentioned most often and posted them to the TMIP Web site.

Technical Synthesis on Feedback Loops

TMIP recently completed a Technical Synthesis of the contributions and responses regarding feedback loops for travel demand models. Approaches noted by contributors as well as potential considerations and criteria for measuring convergence are also reviewed.

Travel Modeling Workshop Webinar Series Wraps Up

The journey began back on October 16, 2008 and exactly nine months later, on July 16, the ninth and final installment of the Travel Modeling Workshop webinars was held. TMIP sincerely thanks Mr. Thomas Rossi and Mr. Yasasvi Popuri from Cambridge Systematics for their efforts in putting on these well-received workshops. Also thanks to Mr. Kermit Wies, CMAP, for his presentation at the last session. And finally thanks to all of you that participated, asked questions, and gave us feedback on how to improve the experience.

The presentations, including the visuals and audio were captured during 12th Transportation Planning Applications Conference in Houston, Texas. They have been converted to eSessions and are posted on the Teach America web site.