Between October 1 2013 and September 30 2014, TMIP established a set of strategic goals to guide its future activities and initiatives. Additionally, TMIP staff outlined and accelerated the execution of seven major programs, summarized in the table below.
| Webinars: | a virtual forum for transportation planning agencies and stakeholders to share insights and experiences. Webinars include both Workshops Over the Web (WOWs) and Web Knowledge and Information Exchange (WKIEs) on relevant topics to the transportation planning community. Twelve (12) webinars were convened during the performance period with an average of 116 participants per session. |
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| Peer Review Program: | a program in which planning agencies collaborate with an expert peer review panel to review their data, methods, and planning models to ensure that their technical processes and tools meet analysis needs. Five (5) peer reviews were conducted during the performance period: Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA), Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC), Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana (OKI) Regional Council of Governments and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). |
| At A Glance Series: | a series of concise brochures pertaining to transportation analysis, modeling, and simulation related topics for distribution to the TMIP Community. The fourth At A Glance Series brochure was developed in this performance period entitled "Smart Growth Area Planning Tool (SmartGAP) At A Glance". |
| TMIP Report Series: | an initiative to disseminate information related to transportation modeling, simulation, and analysis through the publication of reports, case studies, and exemplary models and technical documentation. During the performance period, the second TMIP Agency Snapshot Report Series was published on the Oregon Department of Transportation. |
| TMIP Travel Analysis Toolbox: | to provide access to a range of travel analysis related tools and serve as a reference resource for the selection and application of analytical tools and quantitative methods to support transportation planning decision making. The goal of the Toolbox is not to identify or create a single - or even a set of - ideal tools, but rather to provide processes, information, and examples to encourage agencies to select the appropriate tools and methods based on their analytical needs. During performance period, the two white papers on travel modeling were completed. |
| TMIP Online Community of Practice (TMIP|COP): | a complementary community resource to the Transportation Research Board's Travel Forecasting Resource for surface transportation modeling, simulation and analysis discussion, documentation, and capacity building. During the performance period, community site was simplified and moved to an open source platform. |
| TMIP Website: | the website (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/tmip/) is TMIP's primary web-presence. |
Between October 2013 and September 2014, FHWA spent less than four hundred thousand dollars to conduct the major activities described in the following sections.
