Transportation

How humans get from point A to point B.

This page:
Transportation, generally | Air Transportation | Ships and Shipping | Traffic Reports | Transportation Safety

Transportation, generally

• Bureau of Transportation Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
• National Transportation Statistics
• Pocket Guide to Transportation - Annual publication with statistics from the DOT and elsewhere
• Transportation Research Board - Current research

Transportation Libraries:

• National Transportation Library (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
• Dorothy Payton Gray Transportation Library (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority)
• Mystic Seaport Library
• National Maritime Museum Caird Library, Greenwich, England
• Northwestern University Transportation Library
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park library collections and maritime research center
• Institute of Transportation Studies Library (UC Berkeley)
• Transportation Library Connectivity - Blog and links for transportation libraries

Transportation Index:

• Transportation Research International Documentation (TRID) - Database from the Transportation Research Board (TRIS) and OECD

Air Transportation

• Airport Statistics and Data Centre (Airports Council International)
• FlightAware - Track flights in progress over the U.S. and Canada

Ships and Shipping

• Maritime History - An annotated list of reference Websites (Alcove 9, Library of Congress)

Merchant Fleets:

• Merchant Marine - Comparison of fleets by country (CIA World Factbook)
• World Fleet Registered Vessels (UK Dept. of Transport)

Ship Locators:

• Marine Traffic: Live Ships Map
• Shipfinder

Maritime Museums:

• Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va.
• Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Conn.
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England
• New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Mass.
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
• U.S.S. Constitution Museum, Charlestown, Mass.
• Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Traffic Reports:

Real-time traffic reports for major U.S. cities.

• MSN Traffic Reports
• Traffic.com - Enter a start and end point and get current traffic conditions
• Waze - Traffic reported by users

Transportation Safety

• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety