Exceptional Links and Contacts for More Information
The obligatory page of links to other sites of interest for members
and friends of the TRB Committee on Urban Transportation Data and
Information Systems. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, so
check out the Libraries and Indices to Transportation
WWW sites. Please contact the chair of the
committee for more information.
(27 committees and subcommittees as of 07-Dec-98; updated to include 36
sections, committees and subcommittees as of 04-Aug-99; updated to
include 35 committees as of 21-Jun099; updated to include 67 committees
as of 6-Jul-01 according to the TRB Committee HomePages site; updated to
86 committees and subcommittees on 3-Apr-02; updated to 87 committees
and subcommittees as of 3-Sep-02)
For a full list of TRB Committees (Division A, Technical Activities)
visit the TRB web site at: http://www4.nationalacademies.org/trb/activities.nsf.
The Transportation Research Board has a page linking to TRB Committee
Home Pages, at: http://gulliver.trb.org/directory/comm_homepages.asp.
This directory includes 86 committees, subcommittees and task forces as
of 4/3/02.
Included here are the committee web pages of most interest to the
urban data committee:
- ABJ00: Section on
Transportation Data
- ABJ30: Committee on Urban Transportation
Data & Information Systems
ABJ30(1): Subcommittee on Census
Data and Transportation Planning
ABJ20: Committee on
Statewide Transportation Data
ABJ40: Committee on Transportation
Survey Methods [http://www.travelsurveymethods.org/]
ABJ60: Committee on
Spatial Data and Information Science
ABJ70: Committee on
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications
ABJ80: Committee on
Statistical Methodology and Statistical Computer Software in Transportation Research
- National Transportation Library
TRIS Online.
- USDOT TASC Library Official
library of USDOT, with an on-line catalog.
- Berkeley ITS Library
Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley.
- Directory of Transportation Libraries
and Information Centers Directory prepared by the Special Libraries
Association (SLA), Transportation Division. List is at the NTL. Updated
2002.
- Member Libraries,
SLA Transportation Division On-line members of the Special Libraries
Association (SLA), Transportation Division
- Libraryspot.Com Excellent
general library site
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
Another excellent general library site
- Metropolitan Planning Organizations
and Regional Councils on the WWW Comprehensive listing of MPOs and
COGs with presences on the WWW.
- USDOT Home Page US Department
of Transportation. Gateway to the modal administrations.
- BTS Home Page Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (USDOT).
- USDOT Research and Innovative Technology
Administration (RITA)
- FHWA Office of Highway
Policy Information Includes information about the Nationwide Personal
Transportation Surveys (NPTS) and other highway statistics.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National
Transportation Research Center
- Volpe National Transportation Systems
Center (VNTSC)
- TRANSIMS @ Los Alamos
TRANSIMS is part of the federal Travel Model Improvement Program.
- TMIP Home Page Information
about the Travel Model Improvement Program.
National Highway Institute
Training programs.
National Transit Institute Training
programs NTI at Rutgers.
- European Conference of Ministers of
Transport (ECMT) Home Page
- International Transportation
Organization Sites Directory maintained by the European Conference
of Ministers of Transport (ECMT)
- École Polytechnique
Montreal, Canada.
- Institute for Transport Studies
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
- TRB Home Page Transportation
Research Board site.
- International
Association of Time Use Research (IATUR) site maintained at
St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- International Association
of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) site maintained at University
of Texas, Austin
- ITE The Institute of Transportation
Engineers Home Page.
- ITS America The Intelligent Transportation
Society of America.
- American Public Transit Association
(APTA)
- Association of American State Highway
& Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
- National Association of Regional Councils
(NARC)
- Association of Metropolitan Planning
Organizations (AMPO)
- American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE)
- TransAct Surface Transportation
Policy Project (STPP) Transportation Action Network
- Urban Land Institute (ULI)
Trade organization for the urban development and real estate industry.
- American Planning Organization
(APA)
- American Planning Organization:
Transportation Planning Division (APA's Transportation Planning
Division)
- American Statistical Association
(ASA)
- Council of University Transportation
Centers: Members List of U.S. University Transport Centers
- MIT Center for Transport Studies
- Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Center for Urban Transp Studies (CUTS) Home Page
- Texas Transportation Institute
- TTI Urban Mobility Study Nationally
known study of mobility and traffic congestion on freeways and major streets
in 85 cities
- Telecommunications
and Travel Research Program University of California, Davis
- Northwestern University
Transportation Center
- TRB Subcommittee on Census
Data for Transportation (www.trbcensus.com)
- CTPP 2000 Census Transportation
Planning Package: CTPP 2000 - page at FHWA.
- Census Bureau Home Page
Census 2000
Home Page Census Bureau home page for the Year 2000 Decennial
Census.
American Factfinder
Census Bureau's web-based data finder.
The American Community Survey
part of the Continuous Measurement program.
Census
Journey to Work Census Bureau's page on journey-to-work statistics.
Census paper
on NAICS
State Data Center Clearinghouse
State and Regional Data Centers Network, working with the Census Bureau
to provide census data to all.
American Demographics
/ Marketing Tools Commercial magazine of interest to transportation
planners.
PUMS @ CIESIN
Public Use Microdata Sample, 1940-1990, available at the Consortium for
International Earth Science Information Network.
Socioeconomic Data and Applications
Center at CIESIN at CIESIN.
STAT-USA - trade, business, and
economic information. Cost recovery arm for U.S. federal data.
FedWorld Home Page Launchpad
to most U.S. federal WWW pages.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. labor and price statistics.
EconData.Net Socio-economic
data sources, site developed for the US Economic Development Agency.
EconoMagic.com Commercial
site with links to socio-economic datasets.
California
Department of Finance Demographic Research Unit Demographic forecasts
for California.
Public Use Microdata
Sample L (PUMS-L) Information PUMS data for Labor Market Areas,
Louisiana State Data Center.
Other Data Sources
Site maintained by Lousiana State Data Center.
URISA The home page for the
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.
Association of Public Data Users (APDU)
Population Reference Bureau Non-profit
organization with excellent details on international demographic data and
trends.
Internet Guide
to Population and Demography (Virtual Library)
About Global Positioning
Systems (GPS) Links page by MiningCo.com
Transportation Data Archives
- TRANSTATS Data Library
National Transportation Data Archive, provided by the USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
- Metropolitan Travel Survey
Archive Data Archive at the University of Minnesota (http://www.surveyarchive.org/)
- Household Travel Surveys on the WWW
Page maintained by the TRB Urban Data Committee & Friends
- UK Data Archive National
Data Archive at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom
- Links
to North American Data Archives Site maintained by the UK Data
Archive
- Links
to European Data Archives Site maintained by the UK Data Archive
- Links
to Other Data Archives Site maintained by the UK Data Archive
- NESSTAR.com (Networked
Social Science Tools and Resources) - web-based survey data dissemination
software environment - Produced by the UK Data Archive and the Norwegian Data Archive
- Pet Names for
a Transportation Data Archive
Contacts for More Information
Chair, Urban Transportation Data & Information Systems Committee (ABJ30)
Ed Christopher
Federal Highway Administration, Olympia Fields, Illinois
e-mail: edc@berwyned.com
Webmaster, Urban Data Committee
Chuck Purvis
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
e-mail: cpurvis@mtc.ca.gov
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