Bicyclists Beware!!

I just visited the Google HQ in Mountain View and saw some employees riding this thing around. Apparently it's called the "conference bike." It's only a matter of time before bicycling is supplanted by this technological marvel.

Conference Bike!

-jt

A new search engine for transportation

Transportation Meta Search is a Google-enabled search engine, set up and maintained by transportation librarians in the USA and abroad. There is nothing fancy here, just a single search box, and no "advanced search", but it's pretty effective. A search on "asphalt rubber pavements" pulled up 265 documents, including many PDFs.

Though TMS searches only on the Web, it could serve as a useful starting point before moving on to more comprehensive and detailed databases such as TRIS (available on the Web) and Transport (available in the Transportation Library.)