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TMIP Seminars

TMIP Seminars

January 30-February 1, 2007

Caltrans District Office
4050 Taylor Street, Room 1-125
San Diego, CA 92110
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Activity and Tour Based Forecasting Seminar

The Activity and Tour Based Forecasting Seminar is designed for travel demand modelers with several years of practical experience. The development of activity and tour-based models is a result of recent research into travel demand forecasting procedures and advances in computing technology, which enable more detailed and disaggregate travel demand analysis. The seminar attempts to communicate to travel modeling professionals some of the activity and tour-based modeling procedures developed by their colleagues around the U.S. and abroad, as well as promising techniques that have been or are being researched.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Travel Model Calibration, Validation and Reasonableness Checking Seminar

This is a one-day non-computerized seminar with manual workshop. The Travel Model Calibration Validation and Reasonableness Checking Seminar will focus on the process and procedures for estimating, calibrating and validating regional travel forecasting models. For each step in the modeling process: the instructor will describe calibration, validation, and reasonableness checks, the instructor will also describe useful local, state and national data, and there will be ample time for students to ask questions, offer examples from their models and share "war stories."

Thursday, February 1, 2007
Forecasting Land Use Activities Seminar

One-day seminar with workshops incorporated into the seminar. This is a one-day non-computerized seminar with manual workshop. Forecasting Land Use Activities will describe, explain and demonstrate methods and data sources for forecasting the nature and amount of land using activities, specifically population, dwelling units, basic employment and service employment. The procedures addressed will include estimating control totals for an urban region and distributing activities among sub-regional analysis areas. This seminar will include a rudimentary description of land use models and other allocation procedures. Procedures for assimilating needed data from various sources and checking the reliability of that data will also be described.

Special thanks to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), San Diego Association of Governments (SanDAG), and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for their assistance with these seminars.

Seminar Attire

Dress for the seminars is business casual.

Registration

Online registration for these seminars is no longer available. Seminar registration will NOT be available on-site.

NOTE: Registration for each seminar is available to the first thirty (30) registrants.

Travel Information

The Caltrans District Office is approximately 4.5 miles from San Diego International Airport (SAN). We are not arranging hotels; however, here is a list of nearby hotels. Registrants are required to arrange their own travel and accommodations.

  • Best Value Padre Trail Inn
    4200 Taylor St.
    San Diego, CA 92110
    ph. (619) 297-3291 · toll-free (800) 255-9988
  • Best Western Hacienda Suites Old Town
    4041 Harney
    San Diego, CA 92110
    ph. (619) 298-4707 · toll-free (800) 888-1991
  • Hampton Inn San Diego-Sea World/Airport Area
    3888 Greenwood St.
    San Diego, CA 92110
    ph (619) 299-6633
  • Good Nite Inn San Diego SeaWorld - Sports Arena
    3880 Greenwood St.
    San Diego, CA 92110
    ph. (619) 543-9944
  • Courtyard San Diego Old Town
    2435 Jefferson St.
    San Diego, CA 92110
    ph. (619) 260-8500
  • La Quinta Inn San Diego Old Town
    2389 Moore St.
    San Diego, CA 92110
    ph. (619) 291-9100
  • Holiday Inn Express Old Town
    3900 Old Town Ave.
    San Diego, CA 92110
    ph. (619) 299-7400
  • Howard Johnson Sea World
    3330 Rosecrans St.
    San Diego, CA 92110
    toll-free (800) 742-4627

For More Information

Program Content
Penelope Weinberger
Associate Research Specialist
Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)/TMIP
400 7th St NW
HEPI-30, Room 3301
Washington DC 20590
ph. (202) 366-4054 · fax (202) 493-2198
p-weinberger@tamu.edu
Registration
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Texas A&M University System
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College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 862-1219 · fax (979) 862-1225 · toll-free (888) 550-5577
events@tamu.edu

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