Transportation Engineering (TA:1001-1280)
TA 1009 Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Summary:
Highway, Transit, and Rail System Information is a division of the WWW site,
Directory of Transportation Resources, a service of the Castle Laboratory of
the Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research within Princeton
University.
The site offers an alphabetical listing of transportation resources on the
WWW, with titles separated into two columns. Those resources noted on the
left are American in origin; those on the right are worldwide resources. In
all cases, titles are direct links to the WWW. Users should scroll to view
all resource listings within the main page.
The site is sponsored by Castle Laboratory; Department of Civil Engineering
and Operations Research; Princeton University; Princeton. New Jersey.
To Search:
Scroll to view listings; titles are direct links to the WWW,
Summary:
Internet Sources in Transportation is a resource of the Transportation
Library of Northwestern University, which "...has information on
transportation (air, rail, highway, water, pipeline), law enforcement and
police management, and environmental impact assessment." The library's
collection "...emphasizes current socioeconomic aspects, particularly
management, operations, finance, planning, regulation, and safety."
At the top of the site, users can e-mail the site's creator. The site's
contents consist of mailing lists, listservs, and news groups. Categories
noted within the contents are: (1) air transportation/aeronautics; (2)
automotive industry; (3) bicycle transportation; (4) boating; (5) civil
engineering; (6) concrete; (7) construction industry; (8) electric vehicles;
(9) engineering (miscellaneous); (10) environmental issues; (11) geographic
information systems; (12) human factors; (13) infrastructure; (14)
intelligent vehicle/highway systems/intelligent transportation systems; (15)
maritime transportation; (16) motorcyles; (17) railroad transportation; (18)
technology issues; (19) transportation (general); (20) travel; (21)
trucking; (22) urban planning; and (23) urban transit.
Users can scroll past the table of contents to view site holdings or select
a topic from the table of contents to move directly to that area. Within a
given category, titles of WWW information sources are alphabetized, each
noted with: (1) e-mail address; (2) subject (description of source); (3)
subscription information e-mail address; and (4) contribution information
e-mail address. At the bottom of the site is a link to other internet
sources within the Transportation Library and a link to the Transportation
Library homepage.
The site is sponsored by Mary McCreadie; Northwestern University
Transportation Library; Northwestern Library; Chicago, Illinois.
To Search:
Select topic from contents list to view holdings. Or scroll past contents
to view all site holdings. Titles of resources are direct links to the WWW.