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PE Exam Prep

Pass the PE Exam YouTube Channel (cannot replace your own studying!)

PE Power Exam Prep on YouTube

Civil Engineering Academy on YouTube

NCEES Civil Engineering PE Exam Equations for Transportation

Civil PE/FE Problems - Structures on YouTube

52 PE Exam Problems in 52 Weeks on YouTube

PE/FE Exam Study Materials at OTL

Other Links

BTS Acronyms and Terms

AASHTO Publications: store.transportation.org

*Special thanks to Maggie Sacco and Christi Powers: Transportation Librarian's Toolkit

Current ODOT Construction Projects
URL: http://okdot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=c2acbffb54f443f8943a62119e5eb7ed

NTL Digital Repository
The NTL collection is entirely digital. Electronic resources for the NTL Digital Repository are selected according to the NTL’s Collection Policy. The NTL Digital Repository is a permanent archive. It includes primarily statistical, technical, research and policy documents provided by federal, state, local, tribal and other government agencies that are required by researchers and decision-makers.

TRB Snap Searches
TRB Snap Searches are designed for the busy researcher or professional who would like to quickly get up to speed on complex research topics.

TRB TRID Database
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than 1.25 million records of transportation research worldwide including HRR, TRR, NCHRP, and more.

TRB Publications Index
TRB Publications Index contains more than 77,000 papers, articles, and reports published by the Transportation Research Board, Highway Research Board, Strategic Highway Research Program, or the Marine Board from 1922 to date.

NCHRP Reports
NCHRP reports are the main product of research projects and are often written as guidebooks or manuals.

RiP
TRB’s Research in Progress database contains more than 9,500 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by federal and state DOTs. University transportation research is also included.

LTAP and TTAP Centers
Search all 58 LTAP and TTAP Center Web sites.

Metropolitan Planning Organizations
Search the Web sites of metropolitan planning organizations. Sites included in this search were taken from the AMPO membership list.

State DOT Emails
Many states send out email or text updates to those who sign up for their list. Please see this list to see which states have this service available to you.

TRT
The Transportation Research Thesaurus is a tool developed by TRB to improve the indexing and retrieval of transportation information. The thesaurus covers all modes and aspects of transportation. TRT’s continued development aims to provide a common and consistent language between those who produce transportation information and those who use it. 

Directory of Open Access Journals
The DOAJ covers free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Although a limited number of transportation titles are available at this time, there are several in the interdisciplinary areas, such as materials and engineering, that make this is a resource worth consulting.

American Society of Civil Engineering Online Research Library
The research library includes ASCE conference proceedings beginning in 1998, and all 30 ASCE journal and periodical volumes published since 1995. Technical and professional interest areas include transportation, materials, structural, engineering mechanics, geotechnical, infrastructure, urban planning, computing in civil engineering and professional issues. The ASCE journal archive goes back to 1993. This full-text database contains more than 24,000 journal and 8,700 proceedings papers.

Compendex
Compendex is a comprehensive interdisciplinary literature database for engineers. It is a vital resource for current awareness, new product information and technological forecasting. The database has more than 9 million records from more than 5,000 scholarly journals, trade magazines and conference proceedings.

Traffic Quarterly
In cooperation with HathiTrust, a consortium of research university libraries led by the University of Michigan, back issues of TQ have now been made available to the public . Dates cover 1947-2003.

Reparative Description at the NTL
This link provides updates from the National Transportation Library on reparative description and digitization.

DPLA’s Statement on Potentially Harmful Content
This link provides a statement from the Digital Public Library of America on potentially harmful content.

NIST
This link provides access to transportation topics on the National Institute of Standards and Technology website.

State DOTs
Search the DOT Web sites of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The search engine has received more than 100,000 queries since December 2006.

UTCs
Search for transportation research located on university transportation center Web sites, including the U.S. DOT Research & Innovative Technology Administration’s University Transportation Center program and the Council of University Transportation Centers.

RNS
TRB’s Research Needs Statements database contained some 700 transportation research needs statements at its premiere in October 2007. The new database provides a central location that makes searching and sharing statements easy. Organizations, agencies, universities, students, consultants and others who fund and conduct transportation research can now quickly and confidently identify where the focus of their critical resources is most needed. The database will be updated continuously by TRB’s standing committees.