TRAC Home Research Reports Project Search Other Publications Sponsors TRAC-UW Contacts Facilities Information for PIs Accessing Project Information Freeway & HOV Performance Statistics HOV Data Collection Library Research Development Concurrency Study Freight & Technology Smart Trek TRAC-WSU Contacts Facilities Information for PIs WSDOT Research Contacts Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC) TRAC-UW 1107 NE 45th St Seattle, WA Phone: 206.543.8690 Fax: 206.685.0767 TRAC-WSU Sloan Hall, Room 101 PO Box 642910 Pullman, WA 99164-2910 Phone: 509.335.3175 Fax: 509.335.7632 WSDOT Research Office Transportation Building Washington State Department of Transportation 310 Maple Park Avenue SE PO Box 47300 Olympia WA 98504-7300 Phone: 360.705.7000 Revised February 23, 2007
TRAC-UW Information for Project Investigators Producing a Report with TRAC A Guide for Principal Investigators and Project Managers Basic production process Contents Graphics Support staff Tables Text Types of reports Word processing Graphics Many authors are now successfully creating their own report graphics, but we have years of experience with many communication challenges and many graphics programs, and we are happy to help. Computer Programs Adobe Illustrator-a powerful freehand drawing program. Adobe Photoshop-a program for altering and editing digital or scanned photographs. MS PowerPoint-the standard program for slide preparation. Adobe InDesign-a page layout program used for specially formatted documents. Excel-creates graphs and tables from spreadsheet data. Kinds of Graphics Charts—You don't have to construct your own charts. You can furnish the graphics staff with electronic data, and they can make the plots. Many styles of charts-pie, column, bar, scatter-are available. Maps—Before you create a map, talk with the graphics staff. They may already have a computerized base map you need (such as of the state of Washington or the greater Seattle area). If not, they can create a base map. From there, you can add the details. Illustrations—The staff can create a wide array of illustrations, technical, abstract, artsy, comical, or mundane. Slides—If you need text slides, you can give the electronic text to the staff. If you have existing report graphics on file, they can generally be converted to slides (including adding color) with minimal time or trouble. Color Color hard copy (on paper or overhead transparency) is available. However, although WSDOT now makes all its reports available as pdf files on the Web, most clients, including WSDOT, still do not print their reports with color. Therefore, carefully consider your use of color and whether any information will be lost if your graphic is reproduced and viewed in black and white. Graphics Dos Do Feel free to give us your ideas in any format-talk to us, write them down, draw them out. Give us camera ready originals, or the electronic source files, when TRAC staff have not produced the graphics. Remember: Our purpose is to help you produce a top quality report.	More TRAC-UW Info Accessing Project Information Puget Sound Freeway and HOV Performance Statistics HOV Data Collection Library Research and Proposal Development Concurrency Study Freight and Technology Smart Trek
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Washington State
Transportation Center (TRAC)

TRAC-UW
1107 NE 45th St
Seattle, WA
Phone: 206.543.8690
Fax: 206.685.0767

TRAC-WSU
Sloan Hall, Room 101
PO Box 642910
Pullman, WA 99164-2910
Phone: 509.335.3175
Fax: 509.335.7632

WSDOT Research Office
Transportation Building
Washington State Department
of Transportation
310 Maple Park Avenue SE
PO Box 47300
Olympia WA 98504-7300
Phone: 360.705.7000

Revised February 23, 2007

TRAC-UW

Information for Project Investigators

Producing a Report with TRAC
A Guide for Principal Investigators and Project Managers

Basic production process
Contents
Graphics
Support staff
Tables
Text
Types of reports
Word processing

Graphics

Many authors are now successfully creating their own report graphics, but we have years of experience with many communication challenges and many graphics programs, and we are happy to help.

Computer Programs

Adobe Illustrator-a powerful freehand drawing program.
Adobe Photoshop-a program for altering and editing digital or scanned photographs.
MS PowerPoint-the standard program for slide preparation.
Adobe InDesign-a page layout program used for specially formatted documents.
Excel-creates graphs and tables from spreadsheet data.

Kinds of Graphics

Charts—You don't have to construct your own charts. You can furnish the graphics staff with electronic data, and they can make the plots. Many styles of charts-pie, column, bar, scatter-are available.
Maps—Before you create a map, talk with the graphics staff. They may already have a computerized base map you need (such as of the state of Washington or the greater Seattle area). If not, they can create a base map. From there, you can add the details.
Illustrations—The staff can create a wide array of illustrations, technical, abstract, artsy, comical, or mundane.
Slides—If you need text slides, you can give the electronic text to the staff. If you have existing report graphics on file, they can generally be converted to slides (including adding color) with minimal time or trouble.

Color

Color hard copy (on paper or overhead transparency) is available. However, although WSDOT now makes all its reports available as pdf files on the Web, most clients, including WSDOT, still do not print their reports with color. Therefore, carefully consider your use of color and whether any information will be lost if your graphic is reproduced and viewed in black and white.

Graphics Dos

Feel free to give us your ideas in any format-talk to us, write them down, draw them out.
Give us camera ready originals, or the electronic source files, when TRAC staff have not produced the graphics.
Remember: Our purpose is to help you produce a top quality report.

More TRAC-UW Info

Accessing Project Information

Puget Sound Freeway and HOV Performance Statistics

HOV Data Collection

Library

Research and Proposal Development

Concurrency Study

Freight and Technology

Smart Trek

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