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Melvyl - TRIS - Transport - National Transportation Library - Institute of Transportation Studies publications - UCTC research papers - Sources of Information in Transportation - TranStats - Counting California: Transportation - TRB Publications Index - TRB Research in Progress - SAE Digital Library - Index to Current Urban Documents - UC Berkeley Library's Electronic Resources - California Digital Library - Librarians' Internet Index - Wikipedia
All available on the World Wide Web. Access is free except where indicated.
To search beyond the Transportation Library's collections you can use the TRIS database. TRIS (Transportation Research Information Service) began publication in 1968 and is maintained by the Transportation Research Board at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. It is the world's prime bibliographic resource for transportation, containing over 500,000 bibliographic records and growing by the addition of 20,000 records per year. TRIS Online incorporates the contents of the former PATH database on intelligent transportation systems research. It also links to International Transport Research Documentation, a subscription database also available on the Transport database.
The Transport database is produced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in cooperation with the Transportation Research Board (TRB). It includes the TRB's TRIS database and the OECD's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) database. References are predominantly in English, though 30% of the ITRD records are in French, German, or Spanish. The records are drawn from research reports, books, journals articles, theses, conference proceedings, and summaries of research in progress.
Transport is available online through the public service terminals in the Transportation Library. The Library's subscription provides coverage from 1988 to the present.
The National Transportation Library provides access to information that supports transportation policy, research, operations, and technology transfer. Established in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, the NTL serves as a repository of materials from public, academic and private organizations.
The NTL's collection is entirely electronic. Resources in the NTL Digital Collection are primarily technical, research and policy documents provided by federal, state, local, tribal and other government agencies. Links are provided to government and other significant websites and documents, especially US Department of Transportation and state DOT sites. NTL also houses the TRIS database.
Provides information on papers, Ph.D. dissertations, books and reports published by University of California Transportation Center. Many of the papers and dissertations are available online in PDF format.
An online bibliography that lists and evaluates sources of information over the whole field of transportation. Coverage includes print and electronic information sources in Aviation, Maritime and Inland Water transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Trucking, and Highways. Includes direct links to the listed Web sources.
Compiled by members of the Transportation Division of the Special Libraries Association and published by the National Transportation Library. A new edition is currently being prepared.
Also known as the Intermodal Transportation Database, TranStats is maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics as a central access point to a wide collection of data from the U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies including the Bureau of the Census. A very useful source for statistics in all modes of transportation.
One of a range of statistical sources on California provided by the California Digital Library, this provides recent statistical information on automotive transportation in the state.
Transportation Research Board and Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) publications from the mid 1970s until present. All NCHRP and TCRP publications, Special Reports, Circulars, TR News articles, Conference Proceedings, and Records are included. Every paper in the Transportation Research Records, Conference Proceedings, Circulars, and TR News is indexed. The TRB Publications Index provides another way to access these materials.
The Transportation Research Board's Research in Progress (RiP) database tracks current and recently completed government-funded transportation research projects in the United States and Canada. Updated monthly. Topics include highways, traffic, materials, construction, safety and public transportation.
(UC-Berkeley only)
The SAE Digital Library from the Society of Automotive Engineers provides access to thousands of SAE Technical Papers and Standards. The database covers all aspects of engineering for ground vehicles and associated manufacturing technologies.
Index to Current Urban Documents
(UC-Berkeley only)
This full text database, first published in 1972, is an excellent resource for public policy at the local level in the United States (& selectively in Canada). It is available through UC Berkeley Library's electronic resources homepage The index is also available on the UCB campus in the Institute of Governmental Studies Library in print and microfiche. Print versions are also available in the Environmental Design Library and the Government and Social Science Information Library.
(UC-Berkeley or University of California only)
The UC Berkeley Main Library provides access to a wide range of indexes and databases through its website. Most of these are available to UC Berkeley users only, and the others are open to all members of the University of California. Indexes of value to transportation students and researchers include Compendex (general engineering database), Inspec (electronics, computers and information technology), and Lexis-Nexis.
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a cooperative venture of the ten UC campuses. CDL designs and implements systems to support the University of California's shared library collections and to extend access to online information for UC members and the public.
CDL's Web site, launched in January 1999, hosts Melvyl and many other useful databases. New information resources are continuously added while enhancements or additions to services are released every six months in January and July.
A keyword search on "transportation" performed in this index in September 2006 yielded 500 websites. The Librarians' Internet Index ("Websites you can trust") is a searchable, annotated subject directory of Internet resources, selected and evaluated by librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources. Sponsored through the California State Library this is an excellent resource, growing by the addition of about 40 new sites each week, and well worth bookmarking.
The famous online encyclopedia, which started in 2001, contains a number of good articles on all aspects of transportation. It also provides an opportunity to share your expertise; if you consider an article to be incorrect or inadequate, you can edit it. A simple registration process is required to gain authorization for editing Wikipedia texts.
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