For the first time Baltimore Metropolitan Council is making its small area population and employment forecasts available for free to the public through our BMC Regional GIS Data Center. This data will be available by Traffic Analysis Zone, a geography commonly used in transportation planning for travel demand modeling. The data will be available in formats friendly to GIS, Excel, and in a web service that can be used with interactive mapping applications.
Over the last three decades, the Cooperative Forecasting Group (CFG) has been meeting to develop future forecasts of population, households, and employment in the Baltimore region. This data has been used by BMC for transportation planning, travel modeling, and air quality analysis. With the addition of the population and employment forecasts to the BMC Regional GIS Data Center, BMC is proudly joining other Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the area as well as state and local agencies in the movement towards free and open municipal data.
For more information contact Mara Kaminowitz at mkaminowitz@baltometro.org.
