Research Guides: Urban Planning: Transportation Planning

Selected Images

Alexander Campbell and "Old man" Smith wait for a train at Naud Junction, Los Angeles, 1900- From UCLA Library Digital Collection: West (H. H.) Collection

Protesters with signs in gallery of Los Angeles County Supervisors hearing over eminent domain for construction of Harbor Freeway, Calif., 1947- From UCLA Library Digital Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Works Projects Administration construction workers extending La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1935- From UCLA Library Digital Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Broadway at 7th St. looking South Los Angeles, Calif. - From UCLA Library Digital Collection: Collection of California Postcards

Wrecking crew tearing out streetcar tracks on Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles, Calif., 1948- From UCLA Library Digital Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Databases for Transportation Research

In addition to the interdisciplinary databases recommended in the articles page, see this list of transportation-specific databases.

Compendex (Engineering Village)
Contains citations and abstracts to over 5000 engineering journals from 1884 to the present, conferences and technical reports in the fields of chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics, communications, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Coverage is from 1884 to the present; print equivalent is Engineering Index.
Inspec (Engineering Village)
Contains citations to articles in over 4000 scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control, and information technology. Most citations include abstracts. Full-text is available for many articles. Corresponds to the print publications: Physics Abstracts, Electrical & Electronics Abstracts, and Computer & Control Abstracts. 1969 to present; Inspec Archive 1898-1968.
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Full-text content since 1996 from the Transportation Research Record. TRR publishes approximately 50 volumes annually of peer-reviewed papers presenting research findings in policy, planning, administration, economics and financing, operations, construction, design, maintenance, safety, and more, for all modes of transportation.
TRID (Transport Research International Documentation)
Transportation database that combines the records from US TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) and the OECD Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD). TRID provides access to over 940,000 records of transportation research worldwide.