Indexing and Abstracting Services

Roberto A. Sarmiento, Transportation Library, Northwestern University and Gisela Lammerts van Bueren, Centro de Recursos Técnicos, Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, compilers

National Academy of Sciences. Transportation Research Board. Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database. Washington, DC: National Academy of Science, Transportation Research Board, [1965?]- .

TRIS is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information. TRIS contains over a half million records of published and ongoing research on all modes and disciplines in the field of transportation. TRIS is now available as TRIS Online through the National Transportation Library's website. http://ntl.bts.gov/tris/

Northwestern University. Transportation Library. The TRAN File: Transportation Article File. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1979- .

The TRAN File contains bibliographic and location information for magazine articles, conference papers, and other material on transportation and law enforcement topics. Coverage in the online file generally extends back through 1979 and for scholarly journals generally back through 1976. Other articles on topics of current interest, e.g., the third Chicago Airport or articles issued through the Transportation Center or the Center for Public Safety (nee, The Traffic Institute), published prior to 1979, have been added to the file. http://tran.library.northwestern.edu

TRANSPORT. Norwood, MA: SilverPlatter, 1968- .

TRANSPORT is a bibliographic database of transportation research and economic information. TRANSPORT combines the following databases: Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) from TRB includes 300,000 bibliographic citations, most with abstracts, of research information on all surface transportation modes, air transport, and highway safety. International Road Research Documentation (IRRD) from OECD contains 200,000 abstracts on highway research provided by OECD member countries. TRANSDOC from ECMT contains 37,000 abstracts of transportation economics literature as well as bibliographic records provided by the International Union of Railways (UIC). These records are present in the database prior to 2000 only.