ITRD Update / GTRIC Meeting Toronto

Colin Howard

Head of TRL Library & Information Centre and Chairman of ITRD Operational Committee

5th June 2005

International Transport Research Documentation

• Background & content

• How it works

• Accessing the database

International Transport Research Documentation ITRD

• Co-operative World-wide database of published Information on Transport and Transport Research

• Permanent activity of the joint OECD/ECMT Transport Research Centre

• Created in 1972

• 430,000 bibliographical references on Transport Research literature and on-going research

ITRD-- How does it work?

• Since 2003, administered by TRL (UK) on behalf of the OECD

• 27 members from respected research organisations in 19 countries world-wide provide abstracts each month

• In one of 4 working languages through the appropriate Co-ordinating Centre English : TRL

German : BASt

Spanish : CEDEX

French: INRETS

ITRD Members

• Australia (ARRB)

• Austria (KfV)

• Belgium (ISBR, CRR)

• Brazil (IPR)

• Canada (TAC/ACT)

• China (Min. of Comm.)

• Czech Republic (CDV)

• Denmark (Danish Rd Inst.)

• Finland (Finnra)

• France: (LCPC, INRETS, SETRA)

• Germany (BASt, FGSV)

• Hungary (KTI)

• Japan (NILIM, CERI)

• Mexico (IMT)

• Netherlands (SVOW)

• Norway (Public Rd Adm.)

• Saudi Arabia (Min. of Comm.)

• Spain (CEDEX)

• Sweden (VTI)

• Switzerland (EPFL)

• UK (TRL)

• USA (TRB)

ITRD: Subject Coverage

• Accident studies

• Construction of pavements, bridges, and tunnels

• Design of roads and related structures

• Drainage of soils

• Earthworks

• Environment

• Highway financing and administration

• Materials & Maintenance

• Road Safety, accidents

• Soils and rock mechanics

• Traffic & Transport

• Vehicles

Monthly input from Members

Member organisations scan and abstract publications choosing language of input

French

(INRETS)

Language

Coordinating

Centres

English

(TRL)German

(BASt)

Spanish

(Cedex)

Monthly quadrilingual ITRD file

File distributed back to members

+ On-line host (STN)

+ Transport Database CD-ROM/On-line (Ovid)

ITRD input in 4 languages

ITRD New Input for 2004(publications)

English

French

GermanSpanish

English

French

German

Spanish

Quadrilingual thesaurus links terms through numeric code

ITRD Thesaurus

www.itrd.org

Accessing the database

STN on the web

STN on the web

STN on the web

STN on the web

STN on the web

STN on the web

STNEasy

STNEasy

STNEasy

Ovid “TRANSPORT” search

Ovid TRANSPORT search

Ovid TRANSPORT search

Ovid TRANSPORT search

Ovid TRANSPORT search

Future developments

• Full Text links

• Looking at further new platforms – jointly with TRIS

• Eg DIALOG, Engineering Village 2

ITRD Update / GTRIC Meeting Toronto

Colin Howard

Head of TRL Library & Information Centre and Chairman of ITRD Operational Committee

5th June 2005

Email: choward@trl.co.uk