Dawn Fallik of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch compiled a tipsheet of useful transportation Web sites for the 2000 Lexington CAR Conference. Below are some of the links she included. For a complete version of this tipsheet, call the IRE Resource Center, (573) 882-3364 and ask for tipsheet#1290. Or, download it from www.ire.org/reourrecenterl.
General Crash/Explosion/Accident data
National Transportation Data Archive (NTDA). www.bts.gov/ntdal University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute: The institute has a lot of projects, data and research. wrwww.research.umich.edulresearchl proposals/proposal_deul UM_Resources/UMTRL.html Volpe Center: Part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Special Programs Administration. This Web site includes links to many government transportation Web sites. www.volpe.dot.gov/resrefllinksdir.html
Trucking
Motor Vehicle Carrier Association. Has statistics for commercial trucking. www.safersys.org Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Provides North American merchandise trade data by commodity type and surface mode of transportation with geographic detail for the U.S. www.bts.gou/transborderl Tanker advisory center (oil spills): 212-628-7686