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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: [email protected]