The APTA Information Center maintains a collection of reports and studies
published by organizations such as the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP),
Transportation Research Board (TRB), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and individual
transit agencies. Materials are available on two-week loan to APTA members.
Search the Information Center's catalog of holdings by clicking on the link above.
The Information Center subscribes to the TRANSPORT database and
other online resources. Center staff can prepare bibliographies with abstracts on
request. Articles on specific topics from APTA's Passenger Transport
can also be provided to researchers. Indexing of selected Passenger
Transport articles is included in the Information Center Catalog.
Proceedings of APTA's Bus and Rapid Transit Conferences are published annually and are a
major technical resource for transit professionals. Individual papers from
conferences dating back to 1988 are available. Or the entire proceedings for recent
years can be purchased on CD-ROM format.
The APTA Information Center also maintains a Catalog of Member Products and
Services (COMPS). The catalog is a comprehensive, computerized listing containing
corporate information including names, addresses, contact persons, and phone numbers of
those firms providing transit products or services in 151 categories. The Information
Center houses bound copies of Passenger Transport, APTA's weekly
publication, from Volume 1 number 1 April 1943 to the present. The earlier monthly
publication, AERA, published by the American Electric Railway Association is
also available in bound form from 1912 to 1932. In addition, conference proceedings of the
American Street Railway Association (1882-1914) and of other early transit organizations
are available for serious research purposes. |
