Regional GIS User Group Meeting• Wednesday, May 13th 2009• 10:00 AM - Noon• Amphitheater, C – Level• NEXT MEETING

SEPTEMBER 9th• www.atlantaregional.com/rgug• www.atlantaregional.com/gis

Cooperative Purchase Agreement

• Must decide if you are going to join• Sanborn quote and specs in handout

– Review for changes and make decision• Present to ARC Board as a programmatic

element for Calendar year 2010• USGS contributing

Interested Counties

Next Steps• Sign the Letter of Intent• Speak with your local executives and talk

to the other counties• Ask questions now and as soon as you

have reviewed everything

RC Tool

Tool available at atlantaregional.com/gis

GIS Training at ARC• Trained 75 people since March of 2008• Now teaching the authorized ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 curriculum

• New course structure, lectures and exercises from previous version• Currently offering ArcGIS Desktop I and II, plan to add Desktop III next

year• Registration is handled through ARC’s Community Planning

Academy • Next class will be ArcGIS Desktop I: Getting Started with ArcGIS on

May 14-15• Then ArcGIS Desktop II: Tools and Functionality on July 15-17 • Cost is $225 for Desktop I (2 days) and $340 for Desktop II (3 days)• Available to local government staff only (city, county, water

authorities, transit agencies, etc.)• Class size limited to 12• Email class announcements go out in advance of classes• Check the Community Planning Academy page of ARC’s website for

upcoming classes and online registration, ESRI website for course details

• Please contact Paul DiGirolamo at 404-463-3520 or pdigirolamo@atlantaregional.com for more information

ArcGIS Server • Migrating from ArcIMS 9.2 to ArcGIS

Server platform– Completed implementation of Latitude Geographics Geocortex

Essentials for ArcGIS Server 9.2– Upgraded ArcIMS 9.2 to 9.3– Upgraded ArcGIS Server 9.2 to 9.3 and Geocortex Essentials 1.5.1– Configuration and Internal Testing of GE application – Geocortex Essentials Training in Charlotte– ArcIMS services stopped– ArcGIS Server/Geocortex Essentials website is

available!

• PECAS − Production Exchange Consumption Allocation

System− Developed by Drs Doug Hunt and John Abraham of

University of Calgary− I-O economic model approach − Two Modules, run Sequentially and Annually

• Activity Allocation (HH and Jobs) Module• Space Development Module

− 78 LUZ zones for 20-County model− Landuse forecast− Small area population and employment forecast− Generate input for Travel Demand Model

PECAS Modeling Progress

• SD Progress– Build rent equations for Fulton– Build Space Synthesizer for 15 counties– Evaluation and Calibration of Initial

Results from Synthesizer Runs– Migrate SD to PostgreSQL

PECAS Modeling Progress

PECAS Modeling Progress

• AA Progress– Initial Integration with Travel Demand Model

(Skims)– Unconstrained Run in June of 2008– Beginning of 2nd Stage Calibration (Imports

and Exports; Option Sizes)– Development of Constraint Values (Jobs,

Households by Income, Imports/ Exports)– Constrained AA Run October 2008

PECAS Modeling Progress

• Data Development Progress– PUMS ,IMPLAN, SF3 Data Development

for Use with AA– Employment by PECAS category

(industry by occupation by space type)– Development of Space Constraints

Using NAICS Employment and LandPro

PECAS Modeling Progress

• In 2009– Build Synthesizer for remaining 5

counties– Standardize zoning and density layer– Recode ARC SD model– Code rent equations into SD– Floorspace quantity adjustment– Establish Transport Cost Coefficients– Revise Design Diagram– Start calibrating prices from AA

PECAS Modeling Progress

TAZ Disaggregator• What is TAZ-D?

- ArcMap Extension- Spatial Analyst - Developed By PBS&J

TAZ Disaggregator

• What will TAZ-D do?– TAZ level data for Travel Demand Model – Disaggregate future forecast to Super

Districts (78) and TAZs (2024)• -landuse -employment• -household -population

– Improve ARC Zapping procedure• replace FORTRAN programs • Incorporate geospatial factors vs. existing

share based

TAZ Disaggregator

• Major Input data:– REMI forecast– Landpro – Street centerline– Travel impedance matrix– Transit– Parcels– Any geospatial factors

TAZ Disaggregator

• How does TAZ-D disaggregate…?– Apply factors and weighted scores– Spatial Analyst & raster conversion– Calculate and rank the likelihood of

development– Calibration– Allocate the future development– Make animation

TAZ Disaggregator• Output

– At Super District and TAZ level:• Future employment by 21 NAICS categories• Population• Household by 4x6 HHInc Size categories

– Animation of future development• Progress

– Working on redevelopment module– Will test the full function and calibration

in next two weeks

TAZ Disaggregator

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