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Research and Information Retrieval for Highways and Public Transportation

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FHWA, UMTA, and many other federal agencies, the individual state highway departments, a number of universities, private or university-related research groups and individuals, and many of the other organizations and associations mentioned here conduct research on highway and transportation problems or provide financing for it. Many other agencies also carry out projects with strong transportation implications. The output from these efforts is large; one estimate places it at 30.000 titles per year. It follows that to find what research has been done or is under way is a difficult task.
Among the ways to find research results are through TRB publications and other services mentioned earlier or in such summaries as the annual Transac­tions of ASCE. Many other agencies, for example FHWA's Highway Institute, publish bibliographies from time to time. The subject indexes in good university and public libraries can be helpful. Unfortunately, many valuable research re­ports, particularly those issued by federal agencies, are not available in libraries unless they are depositories and even their collections may be incomplete.

Even after the titles and abstracts of research reports have been located, gain­ing access to the report itself may be difficult. Copies of some of the most sig­nificant can be purchased from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. 22151. Often, however, it may be necessary to contact the au­thor or sponsoring agency. Because information retrieval from the vast number of publications is so difficult, those who wish to have their findings known should report them through TRB, ASCE, or other commonly available sources.

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