Transportation Sites

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/transport/sites.html)

Transportation Sites:

1. Transport Statistics, Data and Research
   • (U.S.) Bureau of Transportation Statistics [www.bts.gov/]
     • Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database (Transportation Research Board) "TRIS Online is the largest and most comprehensive source of information on published transportation research on the Web. TRIS Online is a joint project between the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the Transportation Research Board. In January 1999, BTS and TRB signed a memorandum of understanding to make available the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database on the Internet through the National Transportation Library's (NTL) Web site."
     • Transportation Research Board (TRB) [www.trb.org/]
     • Intermodal Transportation Database (ITDB) [www.itdb.bts.gov/] ...is a central access point to a broad collection of transportation data. These data have been collected by various agencies within the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other federal agencies, such as the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

     • Travel Model Improvement Program Homepage To remedy current model deficiencies, the Department of Transportation (including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and the Office of the Secretary (OST)) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) have initiated the Travel Model Improvement Program to enhance current models and develop new procedures.

   • ITRD International Transport Research Documentation A Source of Information for Researchers, Engineers and Consultants ITRD (formerly IRRD) is a database of information on:
     1. Traffic and Intermodal Transport
     2. Road Safety and Accident Studies
     3. Vehicle Design and Safety
     4. Environmental Effects of Transport
     5. Construction of Roads and Bridges
     6. Tunnels, Geotechnics, Soils and Rocks
     7. Transport Economics and Policy

        ITRD is a co-operative worldwide database of information which has been in existence since 1972 as one of the major activities of the OECD Road Transport and Intermodal Linkages Research (RTR) Programme.

   • World-Wide Transportation Fact Book

2. Local sites (Seattle, King County, University of Washington)
   • Public Interest Transportation Forum, Seattle [An Independent E-zine Focused on Public Transportation and Mobility Issues in the Puget Sound Region]

   • Washington Transportation Alliance "... a coalition of business and labor dedicated to mobility in Washington State. Our mission is to ensure the development of a world class transportation system and the resources to sustain it."

   • Telematics (John Niles)

   • The Transportation Choices Coalition

     ..... wants a better quality of life for the people of Washington State, including clean air and clean water, more parks, and vibrant and healthy communities. People should be able to ride a bike or cross the street without risking their lives. Businesses should be able to move their products quickly and easily, and dangerous, pollution-clogged traffic jams should not dominate our way of life.

   • The Puget Sound Region's Model Deployment Initiative This web site provides an Internet-based overview of the Puget Sound Region's response to the FHWA RFP Intelligent Transportation Systems Model Deployment Initiative (Federal Register: February 26, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 38, Pages 7146-7153))

   • Expedited Passenger Check-in System Global Information and Telecommunications Industries (GiTi): Transportation Model (Conference Report, University of Washington, 1997)

   • Transportation Northwest Regional Center (TransNow) [University of Washington]

   • Transportation Links [AAG Transport Group (TGSG), Hofstra]

   • Logistics and Transportation Server (UK)

   • Transportation Northwest Regional Center (University of Washington, Seattle)

   • The Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) Puget Sound Chapter

     ..... is a network of transportation professionals dedicated to excellence in transportation through the achievement and success of a diverse work force.

   • Metro Transit (King County)

   • Transportation Departments of States Governments (and selected other sites) by state

   • Center for Urban Transportation Studies (CUTS) Milwaukee, Wisconsin

   • Directions in Transportation - Issues KPMG's newsletter Directions in Transportation discusses business and industry issues affecting transportation companies throughout the world. It is published three times a year by the KPMG International Transportation Committee.

   • Best Practices in the North American Trucking Industry; by Jan Bowland & Don McKnight KPMG Management Consulting

   • Syllabi (Transport Geography, Management, Economics & Logistics)
     • Transport Economics for Operations Management Lecture Notes, International School of Economics Rotterdam,

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   Transportation Models & Software Packages:

   • TModel Corporation Home Page. "TModel staff have extensive experience in development of travel forecasting models, transportation plans, and in training clients in basic traffic analysis. The firm's primary purpose is to provide software tools, training, and the application of innovative and progressive techniques for analyzing and solving transportation problems. TModel Corporation offices are located on Vashon Island, Washington."
   • Intermodal Research Framework [An Internet dialog of the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center on the subject.]
   • MINUTP and Travel Demand Forecasting Models. Travel forecasting procedures for transportation planning have become increasingly sophisticated over the past 20 years. MINUTP offers state-of-the-art forecasting techniques in a form that is easily applied and understood.It provides these techniques in standard formats and includes extensive flexibility for the user to tailor the application to localconditions."
   • Transportation Planning and Logistics Caliper has performed many sophisticated projects and studies in urban transportation planning. ... in modern methods of demand model development and calibration and in linking demand models with diverse GIS and planning software. ... in disaggregate choice models, stated preference models, simultaneous demand models, and has been instrumental in introducing improved modeling techniques in a wide range of projects.
   • MAKING THE LAND USE/TRANSPORTATION/AIR QUALITY CONNECTION: VOLUME 4 - MODEL MODIFICATIONS Publication Year: 1992 Language: English Pages: 80 Corporate Source: Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated 222 Third Street, Cambridge MA 02142 "Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection" (LUTRAQ) is a national demonstration project to develop methodologies for creating alternative suburban land use patterns and design standards and evaluating their impacts on: automobile dependency; mobility; air quality; energy consumption; and sense of community. Using the proposed Western Bypass freeway around the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region as a case study, LUTRAQ has..."
   • COMPUTER TRANSPORTATION MODELS FOR LAND USE REGULATION AND MASTER PLANNING IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND
   • THE PENN-JERSEY SYSTEM OF MODELS Author: Harris, B. Publication Year: 1965; Highway Res Circular, Hwy Res Board , Journal Number: , Journal Volume: NA "Abstract: THE MODEL BUILDING EFFORTS OF THE PENN JERSEY TRANSPORTATION STUDY FALL INTO THE FOLLOWING AREAS: (1) MODELS...."

   • TRIPS / MVA Group [4-step model]

   • Paramics 2000 Microsimulation [Paramics Microsimulation has been developed by SIAS over the last 10 years]
     • Paramics Project

   • TransCAD

     "... is the first and only Geographic Information System (GIS) designed specifically for use by transportation professionals to store, display, manage, and analyze transportation data. TransCAD combines GIS and transportation modeling capabilities in a single integrated platform, providing capabilities that are unmatched by any other package. TransCAD can be used for all modes of transportation, at any scale or level of detail."

   • MEPLAN Model [THE MEPLAN MODELS OF BILBAO, LEEDS AND DORTMUND Author: Echenique, MH Flowerdew, ADJ Hunt, JD Mayo, TR Skidmore, IJ Simmons, DC, 1990; pp 309-322 Journal Name: Transport Reviews , Journal Number: 4 , Journal Volume: 10]

     A trio of closely related land-use/transport interaction models was developed using Marcial Echenique & Partners' software package MEPLAN. The models were for the cities of Bilbao (Spain), Dortmund (West Germany), and Leeds (England). All were calibrated using data drawn from earlier studies. The three models were used to predict the effects (relative to a base case) of a common programme of land-use and transport policies or scenarios. This paper explains briefly the theoretical basis of the MEPLAN package as applied to urban models

3. Other Transport Sites

   • Yahoo's Transportation Resources

   • Transportation Electronic Publication Links

     OECD, Road Transport [with links to other OECD transport sites]

   • Transportation Links (Australia)

   • Transportation Resources on the Internet (Quebec)

   • The International Human Powered Vehicle Association

   • The ITMShip™ system> is an Internet-based information and communication service that links shippers to multiple freight forwarders.

   • FedEx Airbill Tracking

   • UPS Strike, August 1997:
     • Special report: Lessons from the UPS strike (NFIB) (August 1997)
     • Teamsters' UPS Strike Page
     • Strike threw wrench into lean, just-in-time economy, Seattle Times, Sunday, Aug. 24, 1997
     • Layoffs may follow UPS settlement Seattle Times, August 19, 1997, by Eun-Kyung Kim WASHINGTON - Fleets of familiar brown delivery trucks may be chugging in a few days after UPS and the Teamsters union announced agreement today to end a 15-day strike that crippled the nation's largest package carrier.

   • Keep `open skies' the goal of U.S.-Japan air talks, Seattle Times, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1997 "Negotiations between the U.S. and Japan ended without conclusion last week on the important issue of a new aviation agreement between the two countries..."

   • SST (Seattle Smart Traveler) (Carpool Ride Matching Initiative)
     SST is a carpool matching program unlike any existing system in the country. It uses the World Wide Web to allow users to find travel partners for ALL the trips they make during the week, regardless of how variable their schedules might be. It allows users to seek matches for trips at different times, or to different locations on different days. It also allows people to seek matches for more than one trip per day, and for occasional and one-time only trips. When users find matches for the trips they are interested in, the names of those matches are displayed on the screen along with a phone number and an e-mail address. Additionally, SST features an "Automatic E-Mail Generator" which allows the user to instantly send out a trip specific e-mail to each person on the list. SST was designed with the needs of students, faculty and staff in mind, and is available for use exclusively by those affiliated with the UW community.

   

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