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that it feels is unsupportable or misleading. The MPO will provide written electronic
notice of the verification or rejection of the stated model results. Verification of the results
will require the final document to include the following sentence: “Model results have
been verified by the staff of the MPO”;
• No alterations to model parameters may be implemented without the express consent of
the MPO. Generally, unless the contract is for general travel model update work that is
not specific to a particular network project proposal(s), customization of model
parameters and output will not be allowed; and
• All presentation of model results must be comprehensive, and relative to a base
scenario. This base scenario must use the MPO’s latest planning assumptions, including
the latest population and employment estimates. Deviations from planning assumptions
in the alternate scenarios must be properly documented.
Data Requests
Protocol
Publicly available data will generally be posted on the MPO’s website and available for
download. Requests for data not available on the website will be handled by the MPO
webmaster. If data are available in the format needed, then the requester may expect a sevenday
turnaround time. Alternately, if customization or analysis of data is required, a 30-day
response time is the target. The MPO retains the right to turn down customization or analysis
requests based upon resource availability. Any document or report developed by a third party
using MPO data must properly credit the MPO as the data source.
Appropriateness
Data that are purchased and/or developed by the MPO will be freely available, provided that
their release does not raise privacy issues, and subsequently distributed to any parties desired.
The MPO maintains its ownership over the data, however, and datasets may not be altered
without MPO permission, nor may a third party sell them.
Distribution of licensed data is subject to the terms of the license agreement with the vendor. In
most cases, this license agreement prohibits the free distribution of data. Datasets that are
developed using licensed data, however, are considered MPO-developed data, and will be
made freely available.
Privacy
As part of the information development process, the MPO sometimes handles data that either
by location, name, or some other marker, identifies individual persons or businesses. Such data
will not be made available to the public.
For example, travel survey data is sometimes collected that identifies individual trip origins and
destinations. The origin and destination data will not be included in the public distribution of
such a dataset, although any calculated trip length data may still be included. Another example