Transportation Engineering: Where to find Research Reports and Statistics

The U.S. Research and Innovative Technology Administration has created this website to provide data on safety, passenger and freight travel, transportation infrastructure, and aviation, railroad, maritime and highway travel.

This report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute includes information and statistics on congestion levels and trends in 101 major urban areas in the U.S..

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) publishes an annual factbook with statistics on passenger travel, infrastructure, and funding, including rankings of transportation agencies around the country.

UDM students, faculty and staff have access to this online publication that includes statistics on transportation safety, economics, infrastructure, and more.

Data tables on transportation with an emphasis on energy produced by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the U.S. Dept of Transportation. Includes information on oil, natural gas and petroleum reserves, production, and consumption as well as motor vehicle production and energy use.

Data from travel surveys including GPS readings, vehicle characteristics, participant demgoraphics, and fuel economy

One of the U.S. National Academies, the TRB offers free online research reports on highways, transit, airports, commercial truck and bus safety, and freight. It also includes some selected studies in transportation law.

Coordinated by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, this searchable database includes research funded by federal and state transportation departments as well as some university and international transportation research.

This website includes links to full-text research papers that include information that is ready to implement to help solve currrent transportation problems to issues.

This website includes reports and data all types of vehicle safety research, including crash avoidance and injury research, event data recorder data, driver simulation research, and vehicle safety features.

This U.S. government website searches science information and research results from over 55 science databases.