Transportation
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- McGill users only
- Open access resource
- Free resource
- In-library-use only
- Catalogue record
1. Sources for background information
If you are not sure what your topic is all about, look it up in a dictionary or encyclopedia. Start with:
2. Searching the library catalogue
Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - transportation, logistic?, flow, planning, etc.
Search tips for the library catalogue
| Truncation symbol: | ? | e.g. analy? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words analysis, analyze, analyzing, analyse, analysing, etc. |
| Phrase searching: | "___" | e.g. "traffic flow" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase traffic flow |
| Boolean operators: | (), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
e.g. traffic AND (flow OR control) will retrieve catalogue records containing the word traffic AND either flow OR control |
Get more catalogue search tips.
Searching Using Subject headings
Often keywords--natural language terms--are too diverse to round up everything in the catalogue on your topic.
To overcome this problem, once you have found some relevant items by searching using your own words, click on the title and examine the full view of each, especially the section called "LC Subject", where you will find the uniform subject heading used for your topic, and then redo your search using the "Subject begins with ..." option.
3.1 Core databases for Transportation
- Compendex
covers all engineering disciplines - Transport
covers transportation research information on all surface transportation modes, air transport, and highway safety - Applied Science and Technology Full Text (Wilson)
recommended for undergraduates - Social Sciences Full Text (Wilson)
recommended for undergraduates - Transport Canada Acts and Regulations
3.2 Additional databases for Transportation
General indexes
- Academic Search Complete
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Scopus
- Web of Science
citation searching
Other subject indexes
- ABI/INFORM Global
management science - Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- Econlit
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
- GEOBASE
geography, geology - Inspec
electrical engineering, physics, computers and control - OECDiLibrary
4. Selected Internet sites
- TRB (Transportation Research Board)
- TRID - database combining TRIS and ITRD (International Transport Research Documentation)
- BTS (Bureau of Transportation Statistics)
- Transport Canada - Publications
- Exporail - the Canadian Railway Museum’s Web site
- Greater Montreal Area Transportation Management Plan
- ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers)
- National Transportation Safety Board
- Sierra Club - Sprawl Campaign
- TMIP (Travel Model Improvement Program)
- Transport Canada
5. Other resources
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