TRBTRANSPORTATION

RESEARCH BOARD

1863 1964 1970

NationalAcademy of

Sciences

NationalAcademy ofEngineering

Institute ofMedicine

ACADEMY COMPLEX

NATIONALACADEMY

OF SCIENCES

NATIONALACADEMY OFENGINEERING

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

NATIONAL RESEARCHCOUNCIL

TRANSPORTATIONRESEARCH

BOARD

OTHER MAJORNRC OPERATING

UNITS

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

By Charter:

Advisor to Federal Government Private Non-profit Independent Self-governing

TRB OVERVIEW

Oversight: TRB Executive Committee Committees: 460 Committee Members: 4,100 Staff: 120 Budget: $42 Million Annual Meeting Attendance: 8,100 Reports: 150 Per Year

TRB MISSION

To Promote Innovation in Transportation Through Research

TRB SERVICES AND PROGRAMS

1. Information Dissemination and Exchange

2. Cooperative Research Programs

3. Studies on Transportation Policy Issues

4. Continuing Advice

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS

National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)

Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Practitioners Select Projects

Applied, Problem Solving Research

Panels Oversee Each Project

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS (cont.)

Products Include Syntheses of Best Practice, Recommended Specifications and Design Guides

TRB Publishes and Distributes Research Results

STUDIES OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY

ISSUES Conducted by Expert Committees

Follow Process Prescribed by NRC

Topics

- Cover All Modes

- Many Related to Regulatory Impact and Safety

- One-third Assigned by Congress

GUIDANCE OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Conducted By Expert Committees

Follow Process Prescribed by NRC

Brief, Letter Style Reports

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION AND

EXCHANGE

Standing Technical Committees and Task Forces

Annual Meeting

Publications

On-Line Data and Information

Field Visit Program

TRB PUBLICATIONS

Currently publish 150 reports a year Circulars and newsletter now electronic Preprints available only on CD-ROM Non-published CRP reports available

electronically All TCRP Publications soon to be available on

Web Future Transportation Research Records

TRISTRANSPORTATION

RESEARCH INFORMATION

SERVICES

TRIS FACTS

The TRIS Database is the world’s largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research..

Last year over 30,000 new records were added to TRIS

Sponsored by the State Departments of Transportation and various Federal Agencies.

HIGHLIGHTS TRIS

Now have over 500,000 records TRIS available on the Web as TRIS

Online PATH integrated into TRIS and

available on Dialog, SilverPlatter, and TRIS Online

TRT indexing integrated into TRIS

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

TRB Indexers and abstractors TLIB files

Northwestern University’s Transportation Library

University of California Berkeley, ITS Library ITRD--European Material PATH Database to be integrated into

TRIS

TRT Conversion

Only TRT vocabulary is in the Index Term field

There is a Geographic and Identifier field that also is based on the TRT

TRIS now has six different indexing fields Reload of Dialog and TRIS Online

ACCESS TO TRIS

ONLINE - Fee BasedSilverPlatter Information (TRANSPORT Database)

Dialog Corporation (File 63)

TRIS now available on the Web through the National Transportation Library’s Web site as TRIS Online

TRIS ONLINE

Agreement between TRB and BTSTRB will continue to produce and maintain

TRISBTS will make it available as TRIS Online

on the National Transportation Web site Value added of links to full text

documents, document suppliers, and corporate authors

TRIS ONLINE

Includes all of TRIS except Research in Progress and ITRD Database

Version 1.5 now available Updated monthly Currently over 600 full text linked Plans

Include RIP DatabaseAdvanced Query screenMore links to full text and document suppliers

TRIS PLANS

Continue to improve and expand TRIS Online

Integrate TRT in TRIS Online Integrate new RIP system in TRIS Development of new production system

for TRIS Development