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Department of Transportation Library: Online Digital Special Collections
 
This site provides the full text of documents "of interest to Department of Transportation (DOT) researchers and the transportation community at large." Includes a varied selection of material such as civil aeronautics manuals from the 1950s, investigations of aircraft accidents (1934-1965), railroad investigation reports (1911-1994), materials from conferences on street and highway safety from the 1920s and 1930s, and U.S. Coast Guard circulars back to the 1960s. Each category of documents is searchable.
http://specialcollection.dotlibrary.dot.gov
Topics: Transportation
Last updated Mar 14, 2006
Innovative Transportation Technologies
This site provides information about unconventional transportation technologies around the world. It includes suspended and supported vehicle technologies, automated freight movement technologies, personal rapid transit (PRT) systems, a group rapid transit (GRT) system, high speed surface transport(HSST), and other innovative systems for moving people and goods.
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/
Topics: Transportation
Last updated Jun 13, 2007
Pocket Guide to Transportation
This annual publication provides quick facts about the U.S. transportation system, covering topics such as accidents, car travel, airports, railroads, oil imports, ports, border crossings, fuel economy, auto emissions, and even international piracy and armed robbery at sea. Archived reports go back to 1999. From the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
http://www.bts.gov/publications/pocket_guide_to_transportation/
Topics: Statistics, Transportation
Last updated Mar 28, 2006
Popular Mechanics: Technology: Transportation
Compilation of articles about transportation technologies such as bicycle modifications, electric vehicles, superliners, smart engineering and infrastructure, jet packs, Panama Canal upgrades, and additional developments in the areas of roads, bridges, automobiles, trains, air travel, and other transportation modes. Archive goes back to 1996. From Popular Mechanics magazine.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/
Topics: Technology, Transportation
Last updated Aug 13, 2008
Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP)
News, legislation, and reports on various transportation-related topics. Emphasizing the "needs of people, rather than vehicles," topics include public safety, smart growth, pedestrian safety, road construction, public transit, congestion, and much more. Searchable.
http://www.transact.org/
Topics: Transportation
Last updated Jan 30, 2002
Transportation Energy Data Book
Most recent edition (26th edition in 2007) of this "data book... [of] statistics and information that characterize transportation activity, and ... data on other factors that influence transportation energy use" in the U.S. Features spreadsheets on petroleum, energy (including fuel consumption by vehicle type), highway vehicles and characteristics, alternative fuel, fleet and household vehicles, non-highway modes (such as aviation, boats, and rail), greenhouse gas emissions, and criteria pollutants. From the U.S. Department of Energy.
http://cta.ornl.gov/data/
Topics: Energy, Transportation
Last updated May 23, 2008
Transportation Futuristics
Through annotated image galleries, this site "examines some of the efforts to address transportation needs in ways that didn't quite get off the ground literally or figuratively." Featured topics include vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, the hover-car (or ground effect machine), intelligent transportation systems, monorail, personal rapid transit, pneumatic transportation, and more. From the Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library, University of California, Berkeley.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_events/futuristics/
Topics: Science, Science, Technology, Transportation
Last updated Feb 19, 2007
TRIS Online
The TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services) database contains "over half a million records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation." Produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board at the National Academy of Sciences.
http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/
Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Transportation
Last updated Nov 16, 2006
Women's History in Transportation
This presentation highlights some of the achievements of women in transportation, covering topics such as maritime navigation, bridge construction, railroad inventions, aviation pioneers, bus operators, and space travel. Provides images, a timeline, and related reading. Related links section is out-of-date. From the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Department of Transportation.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/wit/page1.htm
Topics: Transportation, Women
Last updated Feb 20, 2008
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