TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INFORMATION SERVICES

During the past ten years the Transportation Research Board has been increasingly active in the development of computer-based information services. At present these services include the Highway Research Information Service (HRIS), the Maritime Research Information Service (MRIS), and the Railroad Research Information Service (RRIS). The Board has also assisted in the development of special services for transportation research in progress, highway safety, and transportation noise. In all these services the general objective is to provide the research community with improved access to information about ongoing and completed research activities in the transportation field. The papers and discussions relate to two recent developments that concern all of the modal information services: on-line retrieval access to centrally stored information and network access to information that is stored by any service in the network. The Board has experimented with on-line access since 1969, but not until 1973 was a demonstration project implemented on a national scale to study the effectiveness of on-line retrieval of transportation research information.

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• Conference:
  • 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1974-1-21 to 1974-1-25
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 38 p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 493
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data communications; Information retrieval; Information storage and retrieval systems; Information systems
• Old TRIS Terms: On-line retrieval
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00071627
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 00309022819
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 20 1974 12:00AM