TransCAD

User’s Guide

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Flintbury’s Bus System
• Three stages:
– Create a map showing Flintbury’s bus route
s with bands of various distances around th
e routes
– Use a bus survey to obtain information on t
he riders
– Create and print a layout summarizing our
results

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 Stage 1: Making a Map of the Bus Routes
1. Open practice.map
2. Add a Route System File to the Map

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Use the Zoom Tool

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Create Bands Around the Bus Routes

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Build Overlays

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 The population
that lives
within each of
the bands.

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Stage 2: Finding Out about the Passengers
We’ll use the results of a major survey of Flintbury bus riders
to find out more about the passengers.
Open the Survey File

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Locate by Address

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Change the Style

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Compute Statistics

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Hide Columns in the Dataview

or

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Select Features by Location

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Compute Statistics
on a Selection Set

Lower

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Produce a Tabulation of Wait Time

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 67% wait 11 m
inutes or less
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Create a
Histogram

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Stage 3: Creating a Layout
• We’re going to arrange our map,
dataview, and chart on one page, called
a layout.
• A layout lets you arrange any number
of maps, dataviews, and matrices on a
printed page, along with freehand text
and other items.

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Create a New Layout

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 Drag a rectangle across
the left side of the page.

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Resize Add a Title
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