01385022

Component

Web access has transformed the way in which information can be discovered and accessed, but the questions of quality and reliability remain. This paper explores the interactions between repositories, document and data, discovery and accessibility from the point of view of researchers themselves, based on a researcher built repository framework and the practical solutions to metadata entry, access and the key area for metadata generation and input. Most of the current literature focuses on a library science approaches and communities, and the present paper comes to a more convergent view -but from the stance of transportation researchers. More effort is needed to ensure that the full benefits of these new resources are secured by greater equality and collaboration in interworking between library and transportation research practitioners. The positive initial results from automated keyword generation by using multiple transport thesauri within full text repositories now offers a real opportunity to improve these thesauri in a realistic interactive team environment- and in a reasonable time. Better transport analysis and modeling methodology keyword metadata could substantially improve document discovery in this area.

01385061

English

14p

2008-1

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

Accessibility; Databases; Information management; Internet; Research; Transportation

Accessibility; Database; Information management; Internet; Research and development; Thesaurus; Transport

Research

ATRI

Aug 22 2012 6:29PM

• A 6-wave odometer panel for the evaluation of voluntary travel behaviour change programs
• A new methodology for optimizing transit priority at the network level
• Active transit signal priority for streetcars: experience in Melbourne and Toronto
• Assessing measures of transit travel time variability and reliability using AVL data
• Deciding when/if transport survey data should be updated
• Evaluating transit-oriented development using a sustainability framework: lessons from Perth's network city
• Evaluation of a GPS survey by means of focus groups
• Incorporating residential self-selection effects in activity time-use behavior: formulation and application of a joint mixed Multinomial Logit-Multiple Discrete Continuous Extreme Value model
• Intermittent and dynamic transit lanes: the Melbourne experience
• Intra-respondent taste heterogeneity in instantaneous panel surveys
• Investigating consistency in transit passenger arrivals: insights from longitudinal AFC data
• Measuring and modeling the dynamic of heavy commercial vehicles and their interactions with other vehicles
• Partnerships for progress: towards sustainable road systems
• Reducing burden and sample sizes in multi-day household travel surveys
• Understanding links between transit ridership and auto gas prices: US and Australian evidence