Intelligent Searching for Transportation Research Information
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2015-01-13
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Alternative Title:Poster P15-6910
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Abstract:Transportation authors publish in a broad field that touches nearly all disciplines, from engineering to user behavior, from climate change to materials sciences. Accordingly, there are vast amounts of research that are applicable to transportation and one could spend hours, days or weeks searching, especially as an author begins their initial literature search or review. When we receive search results, how do we know we are getting the highest quality research reports to inform our research decisions? Many researchers turn first to general search engines such as Google, which cast a wide net, and return a great deal of search noise. However, transportation authors and researchers can be more efficient searchers when they begin with focused search tools such as the Transport Research International Documentation (TRID) Database (http://trid.trb.org) and the International Transport Research Portal (ITRP) (http://www.intransport.eu/search/index.php). These tools provide for a more focused and intelligent search option to identify appropriate transportation-related information and research.
One advantage of having a transportation-related report indexed in TRID and ITRP is that transportation authors can be confident their work is more visible to their peers, as TRID and ITRP are dedicated to transportation research, without the noise and ads of general search engines. Authors can also improve the retrieval rate of their publications in TRID and ITRP as well as other search engines, through the choice of keywords from a controlled vocabulary, such as the Transportation Research Thesaurus, TRT (http://trt.trb.org/).
The Intelligent Searching for Transportation Research Information poster will demonstrate that authors can improve their own literature search efficiency and quality by using TRID or Transport Research Portal rather than general search engines. Authors will also learn how to submit publications for indexing in TRID and ITRP, as well as how to improve retrieval of their publications through the use of TRT keywords.
This poster was originally presented at the Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting, January 13, 2015.
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