They will produce reports to meet federal reporting requirements, and will provide information to many internal and external customers. The concept for the Office of Information Services was developed under Darrell Elwell's leadership. Mr. Elwell initiated the Department's efforts in both GIS and electronic mapping. He has coordinated several major projects ranging from managing the development of the Department's Strategic Information Systems Plan to guiding automation efforts in field data collection. Mr. Elwell retired from the Department in April, and we will miss his leadership.
Methods Estimating travel demand is very important in the transportation planning process.
The Office of Planning uses computerized models to estimate travel demand in urbanized areas. The Office of Planning is initiating a project to evaluate its trip generation methods. The project will produce a revised method for calculating trip generation for a single urbanized area in the state. This revised methodology will be compared to existing methods. If sufficiently valuable, the revised methodology may be applied to other areas in the state.