The Transportation Research Information Services online (Tris online) was a

bibliographic database A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, p ...

funded by sponsors of the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

Transportation Research Board The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is a division of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, formerly the National Research Council of the United States, which serves as an independent adviser to the President of the Unite ...

(TRB), primarily the USA state departments of transportation and selected US federal transportation agencies. TRIS Online was hosted by the

National Transportation Library The National Transportation Library (NTL) maintains and facilitates access to information necessary for transportation decision-making in government and coordinates with public and private transportation libraries and information providers to impr ...

under a cooperative agreement between the

Bureau of Transportation Statistics The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), part of the United States Department of Transportation, is a government office that compiles, analyzes, and publishes information on the nation's transportation systems across various modes; and striv ...

and TRB. TRIS provided access to over 300,000 bibliographic records covering transportation research published in books, journal articles, technical reports and the media.

Update January 2011

The TRIS Database returned to TRB in 2010; in 2011 the TRIS Database was integrated with other international transportation literature databases (such as the ITRD Database).

Update July 2020

More information about the integrated database and access to it is available at the

TRID Transportation Research Database The TRID Database (Transportation Research International Documentation) is a database that combines the records from USA Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) database and the Organisation for Econo ...

article.

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External links

*{{official, http://trid.trb.org/
Transportation Research Board
Bibliographic databases and indexes Transportation in the United States