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CONTACT

Barbara Post

Manager, Information Services

Transportation Research Board

Phone: (202) 334-2990

Fax: (202) 334-2527

E-Mail: bpost@nas.edu

Coverage

The TRIS Database contains 700,000 records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles in the field of transportation research. Almost 500 serial titles are regularly scanned and indexed for TRIS.

Traditionally, the focus of TRIS has been highway and surface transportation. However, TRIS has broadened its coverage to include all modes.

TRIS' focus is transportation research. TRIS does not contain information on vehicle standards and specifications, patent information, market research, and military transport.

Besides the material that is indexed and abstracted at the Transportation Research Board, TRIS receives records from several sources:

TLIB

TLIB Records are bibliographic records received from major transportation libraries. These citations generally do not have abstracts but they cover journals and publications that would not otherwise be covered in TRIS. The Harmer E. Davis Library at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley provides monthly updates of journal articles and technical reports. The Transportation Library at Northwestern University provides quarterly updates of selections from its TRANWeb database (a database of journal articles and papers on transportation and law enforcement). Plans are to increase TLIB coverage by obtaining cataloging from other major transportation libraries.

EIS

Over 19,000 records of Environmental Impact Statements from the EIS Database produced by The Transportation Library at Northwestern University were added to TRIS in 2007. TRIS now contains records for the largest collection of Environmental Impact Statements in the world.

ITRD

The ITRD (International Transport Research Documentation) database is a cooperative bibliographic transport research database that contains more than 300,000 bibliographical references on transport research literature from 20 countries. There are 4 official languages represented in the database, English, French, German and Spanish. ITRD provides monthly updates of English language international publications to TRIS. These records are not included in TRIS Online.

Recently added to TRIS

TRIS now is importing records from the Transportation Association of Canada, ARRB Group in Australia, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, VTI and records of historical publications from the Virginia Transportation Research Council.