TRB conducted a webinar on January 26, 2016, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that provided benefits to new and veteran TRID users by featuring ways to use the new “search history” feature to its maximum benefit.
TRID, released in 2011, is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information. Maintained by TRB, TRID covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 1.2 million records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles in the field of transportation research. More than 165,000 records contain links to full-text documents.
Webinar Presenter: Bill McLeod,
Transportation Research Board
Moderated by: Elaine Ferrell,
Transportation Research Board
Here are the slides from the presentation.
Webinar Outline
- Overview of TRID
- What is TRID?
- Benefits of using TRID
- Searching and navigating
- Utilizing the new “search history” feature
- Working with results
- Question and answer session
The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this webinar, participants were able to:
- Understand what TRID is and how it helps with transportation research
- Perform basic and advanced searches
- Utilize the "search history" feature
- Understand the type of content included in the TRID database
- Submit publications to TRID for including in the database
Registration Information
There is no fee to attend this webinar. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at
RGillum@nas.edu.
