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Land use input data

Joanne edited this page Jul 27, 2023 · 3 revisions

Land Use data dictionary

  • AGE0004, AGE0519, AGE2044, AGE4564, AGE65P

  • AGREMPN: construction, mining, and other - natural resources

  • FPSEMPN: other office - financial and professional services

  • HEREMPN: educational - health, education, and recreational/ medical - health, educational, and recreational

  • MWTEMPN: industrial - manufacturing, wholesale trade, and transport

  • OTHEMPN: government - other employment/ other service - other employment

  • RETEMPN: retail trade - retail trade/ retail - retail

  • CIACRE: Acres occupied by commercial or industrial development

  • COLLFTE: College students enrolled full-time at colleges in this TAZ

  • COLLPTE: College students enrolled part-time at colleges in this TAZ (FIXME: all college students are full-time for now)

  • COUNTY:

    • 1:
    • 2:
    • 3:
    • 4:
  • DISTRICT

  • EMPRES: Employed residents (household and group quarters)

  • HHINCQ1, HHINCQ2, HHINCQ3, HHINCQ4: Households in the lowest income quartile (less than $30,000 annually in $2000)

    • 1: < 30000
    • 2: - 60000
    • 3: - 100000
    • 4: > 100000
  • HHPOP: Population living in households (as opposed to group quarters)

  • HSENROLL: High school students enrolled at schools in this TAZ

  • MFDU

  • OPRKCST: Hourly parking rate paid by short-term parkers

  • PRKCST: Hourly parking rate paid by long-term hours (8 hours) - take the average for all parcels (weighted by number of spaces)

  • RESACRE: Acreage occupied by residential development

  • SD

  • SFDU: single family dwelling units, not used (FIXME: all -1 for now)

  • SHPOP62P: Share of population 62 or older

  • TAZ

  • TERMINAL: Average time to travel from automobile storage location to origin/destination

  • TOPOLOGY: Topology (steepness) indicator

  • TOTACRE

  • TOTEMP: total employment

  • TOTHH: total households

  • TOTPOP: Total population by TAZ

  • ZERO: Placeholder (always zero)

  • area_type: density? Area type designation? ("AREATYPE" in mtc)

  • gqpop: Population living in non-institutional group quarters rather than households ("GQPOP" in mtc)

  • hhlds: Repeat of the TOTHH variable with a different name for software compatibility

  • sftaz: Repeat of the ZONE variable with a different name for software compatibility

  • MAZ

  • GSENROLL: students: grade school

  • transit_score?

  • transit_score_scaled?

  • sfunits

  • mfunits

  • percent_mf

  • mixed_use2_1

  • density_index: Calculate density index as a check; should not be null

  • buff_density_index

  • density

  • mixed_use3_1

  • hh_1

  • emptot_1

  • hh_2

  • emptot_2

  • access_dist_transit: Distance to transit - Get closest for now