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TMIP Annual Report October 2013 - September 2014

Appendix A. Samples of TMIP Webinar Announcements and Evaluation Reports

Defining a Data Governance Program presented by Zeke Bishop (Oracle)

Webinar Promotion

• TMIP Webinar 10 02 14 Defining a Data Governance Program.ics
• Data Governance Workshop.pdf

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Webinar Participation

Of the 110 unique attendees (meeting connections), over 81.8% attended the webinar for over 65 minutes (of a duration of approximately 105 minutes). Error! Reference source not found. below presents a temporal profile of all the webinar participants.

Figure 1: Temporal Profile of Webinar Participation

During the webinar, attendees were encouraged to submit questions via the meeting room chat pod. Five (5) questions on the content of the presentations were asked in the chat. These questions are as follows:

• Is there a good model of a state or federal agency that has developed a governance protocol for all of their different data sets?
• We've found that widespread reporting from systems of authority (and management commitment to only accept reports from the systems of authority) is a great way to get widespread investment in the improvement of data quality. People get management support as well as support from people that finally see the usefulness and potential of the data...
• How might principles differ from one agency to another?
• In a statewide IT consolidation, should data governance stay with the agency or does it belong to the centralized IT?
• How do you keep data governance from being inflexible or unresponsive to field and operational units?

The questions were answered during the presentation, which is recorded.

Webinar Polling Questions

Seven polling questions were administered as part of the webinar. The results of some questions are listed below.

Question 1

How many participants are there at your location?

Table 1 Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Numbers

Response Options	Response	Percentage
One Person	29	85%
Two People	2	6%
Three People	2	6%
Four People	1	3%
Five People	0	0%
Six to Nine People	0	0%
Ten to Twenty People	0	0%
Total	34	100%

Most respondents attended the webinar alone.

Question 2

How relevant was this webinar to your day-to-day job?

Table 2: Evaluation Poll Question - Job Relevance

Response Options	Response	Percentage
Very	12	57%
Somewhat	9	43%
Not very	0	0%
Total	21	100%

All of the respondents found the webinar to be very or somewhat useful at their current job.

Question 3

What changes would you like to see in the format?

Table 3: Evaluation Poll Question - Desired Changes in Webinar Format

Response Options	Response	Percentage
More Time for Question & Answer	2	10%
More Presentation Time	4	19%
Just About Right As Is	15	71%
Total	21	100%

A significant majority of 71% viewed the webinar as "Just About Right As Is."

Question 4

What type of organization do you work for?

Figure 2: Evaluation Poll Question - Type of Organization

The largest group of webinar the attendees of this webinar were from State Government.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes you?

Table 4: Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Professional Description

Response Options	Response	Percentage
I apply and maintain travel demand models (hands on)	4	21%
I manage a group primarily responsible for model applications and maintenance	1	5%
I manage/direct a group in which travel modeling is one of multiple technical services	5	27%
I'm an executive director of an agency	0	0%
I'm a developer of application software to support travel models	0	0%
I manage a model development group or practice	2	10%
I conduct or oversee research related to travel modeling	7	37%
Total	19	100%

The majority of the participants in the webinar conduct or oversee research related to travel modeling as part of their agency or firm role.

Question 6

If you work for a public agency that is responsible for model-based travel forecasts, how soon do you think it will start implementing an activity-based model system?

Table 5: Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Professional Description

Response Options	Response	Percentage
We already have one in development	2	10%
Within two years	2	10%
Two to five years	4	20%
At least five years	1	5%
Maybe never	0	0%
I'm not in a public agency responsible for model-based travel analysis	11	55%
Total	20	100%

The majority of the participants in the webinar are not responsible for model-based travel analysis.

Question 7

Do you have a Data Governance Program?

Response Options	Response	Percentage
Yes	5	20%
No	20	80%
Total	25	100%

The majority of respondents (80%) do not have a Data Governance Program at this time.

Webinar Participant Feedback and Recommendations

Participant response to the webinar was generally very positive. As indicated by the unedited comments below, the participants hoped that these seminars would continue with additional details and topics. A few common themes in the comments included requests for more detail on data governance programs and suggestions for future webinar topics.

Comments

• very good
• Thanks
• Thanks
• Examples of data management systems, including backups, data storage, access, etc.
• This was very helpful and informative for current research we are doing for other DOTs needing information on Data Governance programs.
• Our agency, a state DOT, is just starting to migrate to a statewide IT consolidation. The law is clear, the state IT organization owns all technology and technology resources. This includes data. There are a lot of questions about the data life cycle:
  • 1. Collection
  • 2. QA/QC
  • 3. Management
  • 4. Access Management
  • 5. Distribution
  • Governance has a role in all of this. However, the division of labor between what an agency [business unit] does and what IT does is not always clear. How do you define and manage these [and other] roles? Who controls what and what is handled in a more collegial manner? The primary issue here needs to accommodate the continuum that is starts with the business unit who knows all of the standard practices with respect to their data and ends with the IT guys who now how to best store and distribute it.
• Still in research on this method since our models are trip based. None at this time.
• nice presentation, thanks...
• On this topic, it would have been good to have more examples and more relevant research from the Transportation Field. IE NCHRP 666. More speakers on the same topic would be useful
• For this presentation, even though it was running long, it might have been better to stay with the presentation rather than jump to Q&A. The questions coming up in the chat pod were being addressed as they were raised, and there was a lot of material in the slides that was skipped over. Nevertheless, a big thank you for setting this up and to Zeke Bishop for his time and materials.
• Very good! Thank you.
• Development of fine-grained modeling networks - Transportation Data Integration - Data visualization - Ways of delivering Transportation Data and forecast - Integrated DTA/ABM regional models

Emerging Technologies in Travel Surveys

Webinar Description and Promotion

Webinar Participation

Of the 132 unique attendees (meeting connections), over 90% attended the webinar for over 106 minutes (of a duration of approximately 120 minutes). Figure 3, below presents a temporal profile of all the webinar participants.

Figure 3: Temporal Profile of Webinar Participation

During the webinar, attendees were encouraged to submit questions via the meeting room chat pod. Twenty-two (22) questions on the content of the presentations were asked in the chat. These questions are as follows:

• Question for Ed Hard: Since you were working with major employers to increase the E-I/I-E survey sample size, how did you correct for oversampling of workers at those sites?
• Is there a distinction between the cell and bluetooth methods of data collection?
• With Bluetooth, how do you distinguish between passenger cars and commercial vehicles?
• Could you give us an idea about how many trips you captured in the survey in terms of total number of trips of the study area during the study period
• How did you expand web survey results?
• Any different to count EE trips with BT device?
• Did you consider disaggregating Home Based trips by Population only for Origins and Employment only for destinations, and the presented equation for NHB?
• Do you have an estimate of the rate of cell phone ownership in the area?
• Do you validate the AirSage data at TAZ level? If so, have you found any noise?
• I just wonder any difference on EE trip count compare to traditional EE count measures.
• Any adjustment measure to control BT's higher counts?
• Who is sponsoring Metropia in Austin?
• Have you attempted to gain access to the Apple WatchKit to develop an app for the new Apple Watch?
• Does the app incorporate Multi-Modal trips such as with suggesting transit/bikeshare/ walking etc or are there plans to start incorporating this for encouragine people to simply not drive at all?
• Are there plans with using this type of interaction with the google car or other driverless transit technologies?
• How do you plan on expanding to other cities? Need any help? :)
• The trajectories with home and office ends would not pass our IRB. Have "Metropians" opted-out on privacy?
• You mentioned you are not trying to become a navigation app. Why not?
• Data for travel model validation from Metropia would seem to have to be adjusted to reflect self selection of participants. Are you aware that there is a movie Metropia?
• Re: Objective vs. subjective bars; could you tabulate Vs. Wait Delay? i.e. variance from scheduled/advertised arrival time? The IVTT may be a reaction to unexpected cost versus expected cost.
• How frequent did your android app collect location-related data?
• Thanks, 30 second data report is quite frequent in my opinion. was battery ever an issue reported by respondents?

The questions were answered after each presentation concluded and also while other presentations were going on within the chat pod.

Webinar Polling Questions

Six polling questions were administered as part of the webinar. The results of some questions are listed below.

Question 1

How many participants are there at your location?

Table 1: Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Numbers

Response Options	Response	Percentage
One Person	40	82%
Two People	3	6%
Three People	3	6%
Four People	1	2%
Five People	0	0%
Six to Nine People	0	0%
Ten to Twenty People	2	4%
Total	49	100%

Most respondents attended the webinar alone.

Question 2

How relevant was this webinar to your day-to-day job?

Table 2: Evaluation Poll Question - Job Relevance

Response Options	Response	Percentage
Very	19	49%
Somewhat	20	51%
Not very	0	0%
Total	39	100%

All of the respondents found the webinar to be very or somewhat useful at their current job.

Question 3

What changes would you like to see in the format?

Table 3: Evaluation Poll Question - Desired Changes in Webinar Format

Response Options	Response	Percentage
More Time for Question & Answer	5	13%
More Presentation Time	3	8%
Just About Right As Is	31	79%
Total	39	100%

A significant majority of 79% viewed the webinar as "Just About Right As Is."

Question 4

What type of organization do you work for?

Figure 4: Evaluation Poll Question - Type of Organization

The largest group of webinar the attendees of this webinar were from private sector consulting firms.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes you?

Table 4: Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Professional Description

Response Options	Response	Percentage
I apply and maintain travel demand models (hands on)	14	44%
I manage a group primarily responsible for model applications and maintenance	3	9%
I manage/direct a group in which travel modeling is one of multiple technical services	4	12%
I'm an executive director of an agency	0	0%
I'm a developer of application software to support travel models	2	6%
I manage a model development group or practice	0	0%
I conduct or oversee research related to travel modeling	9	29%
Total	32	100%

The majority of the participants in the webinar applies and maintains travel demand models as part of their agency or firm role.

Question 6

If you work for a public agency that is responsible for model-based travel forecasts, how soon do you think it will start implementing an activity-based model system?

Table 5: Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Professional Description

Response Options	Response	Percentage
We already have one in development	7	22%
Within two years	0	0%
Two to five years	3	10%
At least five years	3	10%
Maybe never	4	13%
I'm not in a public agency responsible for model-based travel analysis	14	45%
Total	31	100%

The majority of the participants in the webinar are not responsible for model-based travel analysis.

Participant Feedback and Recommendations

Participant response to the webinar was generally very positive. As indicated by the unedited comments below:

Comments

• Need to increase the number of people who are allowed into the room. I was in the room early on but got booted and couldn\'t get back in for an hour or so. Luckly I was able to hear about METROPIA.
• video downloadable of the presentation
• It can focus more on travel demand model issues
• This webinar was very interesting/useful
• A great session. Informative, and fluent. Thank you very much for organizing this.
• more geared towards day-to-day practice of traditional model users among small-medium MPOs
• Please avoind consultantant sales pitch presentations.
• Excellent as is.

What does (data) integrity and utility mean to you? Painstaking attention to detail comes to mind.

Webinar Description and Promotion

Webinar Participation

Of the 135 unique attendees (meeting connections), over 94.1% attended the webinar for over 94 minutes (of a duration of approximately 115 minutes). Error! Reference source not found. below presents a temporal profile of all the webinar participants.

Figure 5: Temporal Profile of Webinar Participation

Polling Questions

Six polling questions were administered as part of the webinar. The results of some questions are listed below.

Question 1

How many participants are there at your location?

Table 1: Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Numbers

Response Options	Response	Percentage
One Person	29	85%
Two People	2	6%
Three People	2	6%
Four People	1	3%
Five People	0	0%
Six to Nine People	0	0%
Ten to Twenty People	0	0%
Total	34	100%

Most respondents attended the webinar alone.

Question 2

How relevant was this webinar to your day-to-day job?

Table 2: Evaluation Poll Question - Job Relevance

Response Options	Response	Percentage
Very	26	65%
Somewhat	13	32%
Not very	1	3%
Total	40	100%

All but one of the respondents found the webinar to be very or somewhat useful at their current job.

Question 3

What changes would you like to see in the format?

Table 3: Evaluation Poll Question - Desired Changes in Webinar Format

Response Options	Response	Percentage
More Time for Question & Answer	1	2%
More Presentation Time	2	5%
Just About Right As Is	37	93%
Total	40	100%

A significant majority of 93% viewed the webinar as "Just About Right As Is."

Question 4

What type of organization do you work for?

Figure 6: Evaluation Poll Question - Type of Organization

The largest group of webinar the attendees of this webinar were from consulting or other private sector firms.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes you?

Table 4: Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Professional Description

Response Options	Response	Percentage
I apply and maintain travel demand models (hands on)	16	42%
I manage a group primarily responsible for model applications and maintenance	1	3%
I manage/direct a group in which travel modeling is one of multiple technical services	3	8%
I'm an executive director of an agency	0	0%
I'm a developer of application software to support travel models	0	0%
I manage a model development group or practice	1	3%
I conduct or oversee research related to travel modeling	17	44%
Total	38	100%

The majority of the participants in the webinar conduct or oversee research related to travel modeling as part of their agency or firm role.

Question 6

If you work for a public agency that is responsible for model-based travel forecasts, how soon do you think it will start implementing an activity-based model system?

Table 5: Evaluation Poll Question - Participant Professional Description

Response Options	Response	Percentage
We already have one in development	11	29%
Within two years	1	3%
Two to five years	2	5%
At least five years	2	5%
Maybe never	4	11%
I'm not in a public agency responsible for model-based travel analysis	18	47%
Total	38	100%

The majority of the participants in the webinar are not responsible for model-based travel analysis.

Participant Feedback and Recommendations

Participant response to the webinar was generally very positive. As indicated by the unedited comments below, the participants hoped that these seminars would continue with additional details and topics. A few common themes in the comments included requests for better audio/technical setup to improve webinar function and suggestions for future webinar topics.

Table 6: Participant Comments and Feedback

Comments

• TMIP may consider to offer basic training courses on travel demand modeling
• Offer high level overview for MPO work related to transportation planning capacity.
• no other ideas today
• Can be improved
• More bandwidth for online video and audio.
• Presentations were very good\ \ Have \other\ or \NA\ options on all your wrap-up questions. For example, Q2 asked for more Q&A time, more presenter time or as is. I think 2 hours is tooooo long for a webinar to pay attention. 90 minutes max. I\'d like to been able to say shorter.
• Thanks for the conducting the webinar.
• I have completed many travel and on-site surveys for State DOT and MPO\'s. The later presentations were easier to follow. The initial presentations were too detailed. Thank you for the webinar.
• It helped understand the various datasets that are available and how to access them.
• use of establishment (workplace) surveys in travel demand models
• Post all recordings and transcripts on web and notify everyone of where they are located
• More basic information and reasons for the need for TMIP.
• no suggestions
• Thanks for organizing this and for the open access. I work for a Canadian research firm that has conducted data collection / geocoding / trip validation for a few household travel surveys, and it is great to get perspective and ideas from U.S. practice. (For example, I\'ve developed my own IPF routines for weighting that make household level weight adjustments from raking between household and person level Census controls -- it\'s great validation to see that what I have been coming up with on my own is the state of the practice in the U.S. -- and it helps me to be able to justify to my clients the rationale for using a better method if I can refer to this being common practice in the U.S.). \ \ One suggestion I might have for future such seminars would be an exploration of statistical issues associated with surveys to help educate agencies better understand how to design research and/or evaluate different data collection proposals. As a survey researcher in other contexts as well, I am usually happiest with a general population survey with an overall response rate (final completions / households initially randomly sampled to invite to participate) of at least 30%, and I have managed household travel surveys with as high as 40% response. This goes a long way to containing non-response bias (even if it makes the data collection contractors job more difficult). However, I can see that in many jurisdictions in the U.S. and some in Canada as well, there is a tolerance for quite low response rates (e.g. below 5%), sometimes because of the logistical complexity of the survey method, but also perhaps in part because either the data collection contractors or the agencies contracting the surveys are not always terribly well informed about the dangers of low response rates. Another example: a lot of people do not seem to be aware that non-response bias or over/under-sampling and weighting to compensate for this reduces the sampling efficiency, and that the margin of sampling error needs to be calculated to take into a
• Better advertisement. I just learned of the webinar 10 minutes ago and wish I could have logged on sooner. Great information for my organization!

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[1] Smart Growth Area Planning Tool (SmartGAP) At A Glance document is available for download at:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/tmip/publications/other_reports/smartgap/index.cfm

[2] METROPOLITAN TRAVEL FORECASTING: Current Practice and Future Direction, Transportation Research Board, 2007, Page 3

[3] October 17, 2013 Email Feedback

Updated: 9/25/2017