Transportation Plan Repository and Archive

This project created a repository and archive for transportation planning documents in Texas within the established Texas A&M Repository (http://digital.library.tamu.edu). This transportation planning archive and repository provides ready access to transportation plans to planners, researchers, policy makers, and the public—whether for planning purposes, research, or general information. The repository will become a historic archive of decision-making documents to which planners can refer. Past decisions and their outcomes inform future decisions, part of a continuous, comprehensive, and cooperative process to improve transportation mobility for all. This project developed a process for collecting transportation plans, creating repository records, and for uploading the documents. It established a homepage for the collection and developed a consistent set of metadata for elements of the repository records such as agency names, dates, and plan topics. The archive currently contains the long-range transportation plans from metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico; all are posted in the Texas A&M Repository at http://repository.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/90584. The plans are being made available without charge as a public service. The Texas A&M Repository provides persistent and reliable access to digital works for wide distribution and long-term preservation. The project leverages the underlying database and search interface that are part of the Texas A&M Repository and takes advantage of the Repository’s servers, storage, and commitment to maintain the files permanently. The Texas A&M Repository can be used by anyone with Internet access. International standards used by the Repository and cooperative arrangements among similar repositories result in making the documents readily discoverable through search engines such as Google. The long-term goal is that the repository and archive expand its transportation plan collection and provide even greater benefits to the public and transportation planning community.

• Record URL:
  http://utcm.tamu.edu/publications/final_reports/Overman_10-20-58.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University Transportation Center for Mobility

  Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University System
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Overman, John H
  • Tucker, Sandy
  • Sandidge, Matt
• Publication Date: 2011-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 32p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Documents; Information storage and retrieval systems; Long range planning; Metadata; Records management; Repositories; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Archives; Data uploading; Public access to information
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01340824
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UTCM 10-20-58
• Contract Numbers: DTRT06-G-0044 (Grant)
• Files: UTC, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 25 2011 8:34AM