Federal Highway Administration Research Library
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About Us
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Research Library mission is the following:
In support of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center's research, development, and technology (RD&T) mission to investigate new highway technologies and transfer those research results to the transportation community, the FHWA Research Library will provide collections, electronic resources, and services in support of the research needs of FHWA staff; and collect and maintain all research reports by or for FHWA RD&T.
The FHWA Research Library exists to serve the information needs of FHWA employees. The FHWA Research Library will answer questions from the general public as time permits. Non-FHWA employees looking for copies of FHWA reports should see "Sources for FHWA Reports."
In addition to a circulating collection of books, reports, technical standards, and periodicals, the FHWA Research Library provides reference and research services, and interlibrary borrowing services to FHWA employees.
The FHWA Research Library staff can help employees find information on a topic, perform comprehensive literature searches in support of research projects, search library catalogs, article databases and the Internet, and locate facts and statistics.
If the FHWA Research Library collection does not contain the materials needed by staff, library staff can obtain materials such as journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical books, through interlibrary borrowing.
Highlights of the FHWA Research Library Collections
FHWA Office of Research, Development, and Technology reports, including the TS (Technical Sharing) series; IP (Implementation) series; RD (Research and Development) series; and the current HRT (Highway Research and Technology series).
State Planning and Research Program reports—State DOT research, and University Transportation Center research reports sponsored by FHWA.
Transportation Research Board (TRB) publications.
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) publications.
Public Roads magazine, beginning with the vol. 1, no. 2, June 1918 issue.
Bureau of Public Roads (name of Nation's highway agency between 1918-1939 and 1949-1967) historical materials.
FHWA Research Library Catalog
The FHWA Research Library Catalog is available online to search from employees' desktop.
This Web-based catalog can help identify materials that are in the Library’s physical collection, including FHWA research and development reports, some TRB and AASHTO publications, State DOT and University Transportation Center reports, books, journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, and technical standards. The online catalog can be searched by keyword, title, author, subject, and date, etc. FHWA employees can request to borrow items found through catalog searches.
Only a fraction of the physical library collection is currently included in the online catalog. If employees don’t find what they're looking for, please contact library staff. The item may be in the library collection, but not yet in the catalog.
Online Tools
The following online tools are available for transportation research. FHWA employees should contact the FHWA Reference Librarian to access subscription databases (Compendex, IEEE Xplore, etc.) available for their research needs.
Transportation Libraries Catalog
Transportation Libraries Catalog (TLCat) is a shared catalog of transportation-related books and other publications held in government, university, and other transportation libraries. TLCat is a subgroup of Online Computer Library Center Catalog (OCLC WorldCat).
National Transportation Library Integrated Search engine
National Transportation Library Catalog (NTL Catalog)—FHWA and State Planning and Research (SP&R) reports available online with full-text can be searched through the NTL Catalog. In the pull-down "Search in" box choose "NTL Catalog." The NTL Catalog records provide links to the full text.
Transportation Research Information Services Database (TRIS Online)—TRIS indexes, provides abstracts, and provides some full text of published and ongoing transportation research, including many of the TRB and AASHTO publications in the FHWA Research Library collection. TRIS can be searched from the same NTL Integrated Search engine. In the pull-down "Search in" box, choose "TRIS online."
Transportation Research Thesaurus
Transportation Research Thesaurus—The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) is a thesaurus of transportation-related terminology used by catalogers and indexers in assigning descriptors and subject terms to publications. Researchers also can search by these terms when searching for publications by subject/keyword.
Other Electronic Resources
TRB Publications Index
TRB Research in Progress
Borrowing
The FHWA Research Library loans circulating materials to FHWA employees only.
The FHWA Research Library does not loan file copies of FHWA reports, most reference/legal materials, entire issues or volumes of periodicals, or historical materials.
Loans from the FHWA Research Library collection to the general public shall be made through the requestor's local library through an Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
FHWA Research Library Interlibrary Loan Policy
Libraries Sharing Transportation Resources (LSTR)
LSTR is a group of transportation libraries that wish to practice no charge reciprocal resource sharing. Libraries can quickly and easily identify no charge libraries in OCLC, and therefore, streamline ILL transactions.
Participants in LSTR agree to follow these guidelines.
To participate in LSTR, read the guidelines and complete the electronic form on this page: http://www.tfhrc.gov/library/lstr.htm.
Contact Us
FHWA Research Library
Rm. A200
6300 Georgetown Pike
McLean, VA 22101-2296
Fax: 202-493-3495
E-mail: fhwalibrary@fhwa.dot.gov
Hours: 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
Jennifer Boteler (contractor)
Supervisory/Reference Librarian
Contact for: library operations, policies and procedures, outreach, complex information searches
Jennifer.Boteler@fhwa.dot.gov
202-493-3071
Lance Warren (contractor)
Exploratory Advanced Research Librarian
Contact for: (Exploratory) Advanced Research information and research assistance
Lance.Warren@fhwa.dot.gov
202-493-3123
Kimberley Edwards (contractor)
Technical Services Librarian
Contact for: cataloging, classification, and integrated library system
Kimberley.Edwards@fhwa.dot.gov
202-493-3272
Deena Adelman (contractor)
Reference Librarian/ILL Librarian
Contact for: interlibrary loans, document delivery, reference and research assistance
Deena.Adelman@dot.gov
202-493-3058
John McKenna (contractor)
Collection Management Librarian
Contact for: circulation, serials, and collection questions
John.McKenna@fhwa.dot.gov
202-493-3205
