Transportation research and development is a very active area in industry and academia. Emerging trends such as in electric vehicles; autonomous vehicles; traffic forecasting; big data for transportation and mobility; information systems in network technologies; intelligent transportation systems; sustainable transportation; high-speed rail; advances in road infrastructure; advances in public transportation; and new materials are often found in the literature (Grazia Speranza, 2018), (Porter et al., 2015), (Liu et al., 2020).

In this article, some open resources in transportation research are presented.

National Transportation Library (NTL) https://ntl.bts.gov/ntl

Administrated by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), NTL is the home of ROSA P the Repository and Open Science Access Portal, a full-text database. Other services are: the

National Transportation Knowledge Network (NTKN); Subject Guides about: Accessibility; Persistent Identifiers; Research Tools; ROSA P; Transportation and Climate Change Clearinghouse; and the Transportation Librarians Roundtable .

Transportation Research International Documentation Database (TRID) http://trid.trb.org/

It is an integrated database containing more than 1.3 million records, many available full-text, from several top transportation resources.

The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) http://trt.trb.org

It is a valuable tool for the indexing and retrieval of transportation documentation and sources.

International Transport Research Portal (ITRP) http://www.intransport.eu

It is a portal of the European Community, ITRP promotes information in transportation produced mainly in Europe and with some world-wide coverage.

University Transportation Centers (UTC) https://www.transportation.gov/utc/list-centers

This is federal funded program to promote education and research in transportation. This site provides listings of UTCs.

Selected list of articles published in the last ten years, in chronological order, about transportation literature:

Moulton, M. E. (2020). Providing Public Access to Grey Literature at the National Transportation Library. Serials Librarian, 79(3/4), 359–363. https://doi-org.auth.lib.niu.edu/10.1080/0361526X.2020.1847743

Stefano, E., Sequeira Santos, M., & Balassiano, R. (2016). Development of a software for metric studies of transportation engineering journals. Scientometrics, 109(3), 1579–1591. https://doi-org.auth.lib.niu.edu/10.1007/s11192-016-2152-6

Zilinski, L. D., Bracke, P. J., & Scherer, D. A. (2014). Assessing Data Linking in Transportation Technical Reports. IATUL Annual Conference Proceedings, 35, 1–7.

Bedford, D. A. D., & Loyo, L. (2013). Topology of Knowledge and Information in the Transportation Sector. Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, 1, 35–43.

Ostrander, M., & Kieppe, S. (2010). Librarians and transportationists: views and usage of US transportation database. New Library World, 111(1/2), 55–61. https://doi-org.auth.lib.niu.edu/10.1108/03074801011015694

Chapman, B. (2010). Transportation: A Review of Federal and Indiana State Information Resources. Indiana Libraries, 29(1), 64–74.

Osif, B. A. (2000). Transportation information: a review of grey literature by format, language and availability. International Journal on Grey Literature, 1(1), 12–17.

Gallwey, J. (2003). Profile of a Library: Institute of Transportation Studies Library University of California, Berkeley. Sci-Tech News, 57(4), 15.

McDonough, K. P. (2013). United States Department of Transportation. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 50(6), 1073. https://doi-org.auth.lib.niu.edu/10.5860/CHOICE.50-3233

Bravo, N. (2003). Government Transportation Resources and Information Committee (GTRIC) Part one of two. Sci-Tech News, 57(4), 18.

Henderson, G. (2008). Building a Transportation Archive: A Graduate Student’s Reflection. MAC Newsletter, 36(2), 38–39.

Stoffel, B. (2010). North American Transportation Statistics Database. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 47(11), 2077. https://doi-org.auth.lib.niu.edu/10.5860/CHOICE.47-6002

Evans, R. (2003). National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Database Update SLA Annual Conference, New York City. Sci-Tech News, 57(4), 55.

Donald, J. (2006). Bureau of Transportation Statistics. College & Research Libraries News, 67(8), 516.

Sproles, C. (2006). United States Department of Transportation homepage. Government Information Quarterly, 23(2), 327–328. https://doi-org.auth.lib.niu.edu/10.1016/j.giq.2005.11.009

References

Grazia Speranza, M. (2018). Trends in Transportation and Logistics. European Journal of Operational Research, 264(3), 830–836.

Porter, B. , Linse, M. , & Barasz, Z. (2015). Six transportation trends that will change how we move. Forbes, January 26.

Liu, J., Wu, N.Q., Qiao, Y., & Li, Z.W. (2020). A Scientometric Review of Research on Traffic Forecasting in Transportation. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 15(1), 1-16.

Nestor L. Osorio, Northern Illinois University, Co-chair ACRL STS Science Resources Committee.

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