1. TRB TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD

3. ACADEMY COMPLEX NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD OTHER MAJOR NRC OPERATING UNITS

4. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL By Charter: l Advisor to Federal Government l Private l Non-profit l Independent l Self-governing

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

6. TRB MISSION To Promote Innovation in Transportation Through Research

7. TRB SERVICES AND PROGRAMS 1. Information Dissemination and Exchange 2. Cooperative Research Programs 3. Studies on Transportation Policy Issues 4. Continuing Advice

8. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS l National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) l Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)

9. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS l Practitioners Select Projects l Applied, Problem Solving Research l Panels Oversee Each Project

10. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS (cont.) l Products Include Syntheses of Best Practice, Recommended Specifications and Design Guides l TRB Publishes and Distributes Research Results

11. STUDIES OF TRANSPORTATION POLICY ISSUES l Conducted by Expert Committees l Follow Process Prescribed by NRC l Topics - Cover All Modes - Many Related to Regulatory Impact and Safety - One-third Assigned by Congress

12. GUIDANCE OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS l Conducted By Expert Committees l Follow Process Prescribed by NRC l Brief, Letter Style Reports

13. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION AND EXCHANGE l Standing Technical Committees and Task Forces l Annual Meeting l Publications l On-Line Data and Information l Field Visit Program

14. TRB PUBLICATIONS l Currently publish 150 reports a year l Circulars and newsletter now electronic l Preprints available only on CD-ROM l Non-published CRP reports available electronically l All TCRP Publications soon to be available on Web l Future Transportation Research Records

15. TRIS TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INFORMATION SERVICES

16. TRIS FACTS l The TRIS Database is the worlds largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research.. l Last year over 30,000 new records were added to TRIS l Sponsored by the State Departments of Transportation and various Federal Agencies.

17. HIGHLIGHTS TRIS l Now have over 500,000 records l TRIS available on the Web as TRIS Online l PATH integrated into TRIS and available on Dialog, SilverPlatter, and TRIS Online l TRT indexing integrated into TRIS

18. SOURCES OF INFORMATION l TRB Indexers and abstractors l TLIB files l Northwestern Universitys Transportation Library l University of California Berkeley, ITS Library l ITRD--European Material l PATH Database to be integrated into TRIS

19. TRT Conversion l Only TRT vocabulary is in the Index Term field l There is a Geographic and Identifier field that also is based on the TRT l TRIS now has six different indexing fields l Reload of Dialog and TRIS Online

20. ACCESS TO TRIS l ONLINE - Fee Based SilverPlatter Information (TRANSPORT Database) Dialog Corporation (File 63) l TRIS now available on the Web through the National Transportation Librarys Web site as TRIS Online

21. TRIS ONLINE l Agreement between TRB and BTS l TRB will continue to produce and maintain TRIS l BTS will make it available as TRIS Online on the National Transportation Web site l Value added of links to full text documents, document suppliers, and corporate authors

22. TRIS ONLINE l Includes all of TRIS except Research in Progress and ITRD Database l Version 1.5 now available l Updated monthly l Currently over 600 full text linked l Plans l Include RIP Database l Advanced Query screen l More links to full text and document suppliers

23. TRIS PLANS l Continue to improve and expand TRIS Online l Integrate TRT in TRIS Online l Integrate new RIP system in TRIS l Development of new production system for TRIS Development