Transportation Research Links

These are resources which could be helpful for research dealing with transportation. Please keep in mind, not all of the materials found via these links will be available online or free of charge. For access to items not available, please contact a librarian. For help with a literature review or with any transportation research question, feel free to contact the LTRC Library.

For LTRC Library Databases (AASHTO and ASTM Standards), see the Library Home Page

Begin your research here:

• TRID - TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.It is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database, the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database and TRB's Research In Progress (RiP).
  
  
• Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) - Developed to improve the indexing and retrieval of transportation information. It covers all modes and aspects of transportation, providing terms used in the indexing of materials in the TRID databse.

Research Help:

• Recommended Resources in Transportation from Eastern Transportation Knowledge Network - This LibGuide, created by librarians from the Eastern Transportation Knowledge Network, brings together recommended resources for transportation engineers who work at state DOTs and other transportation organizations.
  
  
• Acronyms and Initialisms from The Changing Face of Transportation
  
  
• Glossary of Transportation Terms from The Changing Face of Transportation
  
  
• Transportation Expressions/Transportation Acronym Guide

Continue your research here:

• AASHTO News - Search AASHTO news publications and access the content online.
  
  
• ASCE
  • Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) "A free database offering over 200,000 records of all publications by American Society of Civil Engineers."
  • ASCE Library "The latest civil engineering knowledge and its practical applications."
  
  
• Custom Google Search: State DOT Web sites - Google search customized to only search the web sites of state DOTs.
  
  
• Custom Google Search: Transportation Meta Search - Google search customized to only search "quality transportation related web sites." Built specifically for transportation professionals' research.
  
  
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - "DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals."
  
  
• InterDok, Directory of Published Conference Proceedings - "Since 1965, InterDok has identified resulting material from 280,000+ conferences, congresses, meetings & symposia."
  
  
• On-Line Publications, ONE DOT Information - Access many publications from the Department of Transportation
  
  
• Engineering Databases - Subscribed to by LSU Libraries. These databases are accessible in the LTRC and TTEC buildings on the LSU Campus, including:
  • Engineering Village
  • Web of Science
  
  
• Google Scholar - "Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature." For more information please see About Google Scholar.
  
  
• NTL Catalog - National Transportation Library's Digital Repository.
  
  
• Science.gov - Science.gov searches over 36 databases and 1,850 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including U.S. DOT Information.
  
  
• TranStats - Search Bureau of Transportation Statistics data.
  
  
• USA.gov - "Your online guide to government information and services."
  
  
• WorldCat - "WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide."
  
  

Sandra Brady, Librarian and Transportation Research Advisor
TTEC Room 126
sandra.brady@la.gov
office: (225) 767-9716

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