Fall 2018 Meeting Minutes and Presentations
The Fall OTDMUG Meeting was held on September 14, 2018 in the Ohio EMA Building.
Presentations
MPO/ODOT Traffic Count Coordination
OTDMUG Extended Workshop Meeting – July 10, 2018
Introduction
This class will be a basic introduction to R in the context of travel modeling and transportation planning.
The class particulars (location, time) have been sent via email. Please remember to bring money for lunch and donations to the OTDMUG Refreshment Fund.
Preparation
Students will need their own laptop with R and R Studio installed, and will be provided data to work with.
R can be installed from https://cran.r-project.org/
RStudio can be installed from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ (the Open Source License distribution is free)
Upon installing R and RStudio, there will be some packages needed for the training – these should be installed in advanced, as we don’t know if (or how good) the Wifi is in the ODOT Training Facility.
Open RStudio, and go to Tools – Install Packages. In the “Packages…” textbox, paste this text:
dplyr tidyr rmarkdown ggplot2 foreign reshape2 openxlsx scales RColorBrewer kableExtra
RStudio will download and install these packages.
Additionally, download the Data File and decompress it onto your computer. All scripts are included in the file so everyone can follow along without delay for people to type commands. You should be able to open the data file in RStudio by opening RStudio and opening the project from there (don’t worry if you can’t get **there**, we can do that in class).
Data
There are five data files in the zip archive, none of it official:
Amtimecompare.xlsx: transit-highway time comparison of unknown vintage.
C_D15HASSIGN.DBF: Loaded highway network.
HHList.csv: random sample of 1,000 households from ABM.
PerList.csv: persons corresponding to HHList.csv.
Trips.csv: random sample of 10,000 trips from ABM.
The schedule will be provided at the training session.
Fall 2017 Meeting Presentations
Below are some of the presentations from the Fall 2017 OTDMUG Meeting from 9/8/2017.
Ami Parikh – Streetlight AADT Comparison
Sam Granato – Various Uses for Inrix/Streetlight Data: Ohio Plus Border Area
Nathan Shay – Using Streetlight InSight Data for a Small Area Study: Rickenbacker Area
Greg Giaimo – Comparison of Model to Streetlight Internal-Internal TAZ Trip Tables in Toledo Area
Vince Bernardin – Now That You’ve Downloaded Some Streetlight Data, What Should You Do First?
Winter 2016 Meeting
OTDMUG Winter Meeting
Thursday, December 8, 2016 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
ODOT, Don Scott Airport, Room 100
2829 W. Dublin-Granville Road, Columbus, OH
Agenda
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and introductions
11:30 – 12:00 Development of Standardized Models in Kentucky Using Airsage Data, Yang (Johnny) Han (The Corradino Group)
12:00-12:30 Incorporating Big Data in Statewide and MPO Travel Demand Models in Tennessee, Vince Bernardin (RSG)
12:30 – 1:00 Other Business
Minutes
Next Meeting
Spring Meeting Friday, March 17 at Don Scott Airport, Room 100
2829 W. Dublin-Granville Road, Columbus, OH
Autumn 2016 Meeting
Thursday, September 15, 2016
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
ODOT, Broad Street Garage Complex, Large Training Room
1616 W. Broad St., Columbus, OH
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and introductions
- Approval of last meeting’s minutes
- New Business / Requests for membership
- Discussion of Future MUG Dates
- Website Update / Email List
Changes in Doing Business with ODOT on Technical Issues
10:15-11:00 Sharing Count Data with ODOT in MS 2, a Demonstration and Discussion of the Business Rules for Count Data Sharing-Dave Gardner (ODOT)
11:00-11:45 The Future of Model Support from ODOT, a Discussion on the Use of Consultant’s to do MPO Work Formerly Done by ODOT Staff-Greg Giaimo (ODOT), Rebekah Anderson (ODOT)
11:45 – 12:00 Break
A Teaser for December’s MUG on Using Big Data OD in Travel Modeling
12:00 – 12:45 Using Continuously Collected Data for Travel Demand Trend Analysis-Greg Erhardt (University of Kentucky)
12:45 – 1:00 Other Business
- Tips and Tricks – Tricks for coding TURNLANE at T-Intersections, Ramp Junctions and Shared Lane Situations – Greg Giaimo (ODOT)
- ODOT Updates (model update status etc.)
- Refreshment fund report
- CPD certificates
1:00 Lunch at Spaghetti Warehouse, 397 W Broad St., Columbus OH
December Meeting Thursday December 8, 2016 at Don Scott Airport, Room 100
2829 W. Dublin-Granville Road, Columbus, OH
Refreshments provided by OTDMUG refreshment fund – Please remember to donate
Summer Workshop Meeting
Topic: New Network Calculators and New OMS Model including Highway and Transit Network Coding
Date: June 16, 2016, times TBA
Location: ODOT Aviation Room 100, Columbus, OH
**More information to be posted when available**
Spring Meeting 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
ODNR, Building E Large Conference Room (see attached map)
2045 Morse Rd., Columbus, OH
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and introductions
- Approval of last meeting’s minutes
- New Business / Requests for membership
- Website Update / Email List
10:15-10:45 Overview of Transit Modes and the New Starts/Small Starts Programs, Dave Schmitt (Connectics)
10:45-11:15 Transit Forecasting Methods, Part 1 FTA’s Perspectives, Dave Schmitt (Connectics)
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Transit Forecasting Methods, Part 2 Details of Four Forecasting Methods, Dave Schmitt (Connectics)
12:00-12:30 Example Corridor Project Case Studies, Dave Schmitt (Connectics)
12:30-12:45 TRB Summary
12:45 – 1:00 Other Business
- Tips and Tricks
- ODOT Updates (model update status etc.)
- Refreshment fund report
- CPD certificates
1:00 Lunch at Smokey Bones, Easton Town Center, 3939 Morse Crossing, Columbus
Summer Workshop Meeting – New Network Calculators and New OMS Model including Highway and Transit Network Coding
Thursday June 16, 2015 at ODOT Aviation Room 100, Columbus, OH