Bureau of Transportation Statistics
U.S. Department of Transportation
400 Seventh Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20590
Amanda J. Wilson
Head of the National Transportation Library
800-853-1351

Hours:
Open to the Public:
Web site:  http://ntl.bts.gov/
Online Catalog: http://ntl.bts.gov/digital_collection.cfm
Date Established: 1998

Staff Overview
Number of Professional Staff: 4
 

Collection Information

• Descripton: The National Transportation Library is charged with improving the availability of transportation-related information needed by Federal, state, and local decision-makers. Its mission is to increase timely access to the information that supports transportation policy, research, operations, and technology transfer activities. The NTL was established in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) and serves as a repository of materials from public, academic and private organizations. To fulfill its mission, the NTL provides a completely virtual environment that stimulates library and information resource cooperation and preservation and provides tools that support its mission. The NTL collection is entirely available through the web. There is no paper collection or reading room to visit. The collection is cataloged and online.
  
  Besides the digital objects that the NTL provides on its website, the NTL's catalog also provides a portal to other select resources available on the web. Besides its collection, the NTL publishes TRIS Online which makes the Transportation Research Board's TRIS Database available on the web. NTL provides virtual reference through the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Answerline and the handling of thousands of email queries each month. Other tools provided are a browsable version of the Transportation Research Thesaurus, the hierarchical vocabulary maintained by the Transportation Research Board, as well as bibliographies, directories and related resources.
  
  The NTL supports the interaction of all transportation libraries through support of its TLCAT union catalog, network development, resource sharing, and training opportunities.

• Subject Strengths: Highway/Transportation Engineering. Statistics. Planning, policies and research
• Interlibrary Loan Policies: All holdings are available electronically from the site
• Loan Fees: N/A
• Photocopy Fees: N/A
• OCLC/RLIN Code: NATTR
• Online Database/CD-ROM services: OCLC, FirstSearch
• Additional Information: All NTL holdings are available full text online
• Library Network Affiliations:  OCLC, FEDLINK, MTKN