Transportation

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• ASCE Civil Engineering
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• Transportation Research Record
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Standards, Patents and Handbooks

• Intelligent Transportation Systems: New Principles and Architectures  
• Linear Synchronous Motors: Transportation and Automation Systems   
• Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications

Reference Books

• Highway Engineering Handbook (2003 edition online; 1996 edition available in print: MU ENGR TE23 .H484 1996)
• Highway Design and Traffic Safety Engineering Handbook (1999; Also available in print: MU ENGR TE175 .L36 1999) 
• Handbook of Transportation Engineering, MU ENGR TA1151 .H34 2004 
• AIM/FAR 2007, MU ENGR TL501 .A56438  2007
• Materials Handling Handbook, MU ENGR TS180 .M73 1999 

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Government Transportation Sites

• Missouri Department of Transportation
• Missouri DOT Research Reports
• National Transportation Library
• Transportation Research Board
• TRIS: Transportation Research Information Service
• Transport Resources - Worldwide
• The Canadian National Railway
• CarFree.com
• Freightworld
• Internet Resources for Highway Engineering (1996)
• Wisconsin Department of Transportation: Research and Library

 

Last updated: November 12, 2007