The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT & PF) library collection is housed and cataloged by the Keith B. Mather Library at UAF.

Collection: Consists of about 22,500 books, reports, manuals, and periodicals. Each piece has been cataloged with the designation of “DOT” in the call number and can be found in Goldmine, UAF’s online catalog.

Subjects: Highways, Bridges, Airports, Roads, Docks, Harbors, Ferries, Soils, Traffic, Safety, Maintenance, Design, Construction, Operations, Policy, etc.

Available: 8am – 5pm, Monday-Friday when the Keith B. Mather Library is open. The Keith B. Mather Library is located on the second floor of the IARC/Akasofu Building at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Special Series: Engineering Geology and Soils Reports, Geotechnical Reports, Foundation Reports, TRR Journals

Reference service is provided.

Quick Links:

Alaska DOT http://www.dot.alaska.gov
Alaska DOT&PF employee directory http://dot.alaska.state.ak.us/empdir/
Other State DOTs http://dot.alaska.gov/transpo_resources.shtml
US DOT http://www.dot.gov/
Transport Canada http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/tc-main.htm

Related Databases:

TRID http://trid.trb.org/  Database that provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation of published or on-going research worldwide.

TLCAT (National Transportation Libraries Group Catalog) A tool that enables the user to search multiple transportation catalogs at one time using OCLC’s First Search http://ntl.bts.gov/exit/tlcat.html

Related Publications:

(TRR) Transportation Research Record Journal Online 1996

http://trb.metapress.com/home/main.mpx

TR News, (TRB’s bimonthly magazine)

http://www.trb.org/Publications/PubsTRNewsMagazine.aspx

TRB Transportation Research E-Newsletter

http://www.trb.org/Publications/PubsTRBENewsletter.aspx

More Links of Interest:

Alaska Railroad http://alaskarailroad.com/

Alaska Region Federal Aviation Administration http://www.faa.gov/airports/alaskan

Center for Transporation Analysis - Oak Ridge National Laboratory  http://cta.ornl.gov/cta/

Center for Transportation Research - University of Texas at Austin  http://blogs.utexas.edu/ctr/

Federal Higway Administration  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/

Federal Transit Adminstration  http://www.fta.dot.gov/

Transport Web  http://www.transportweb.com

Transportation Research Board - Research in Progress  http://rip.trb.org/

Turner - Fairbanks Highway Research Center  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/

Bibliographies:

Sources of Information on Pipelines by Kay Kenyon Barboza and Julia H. Triplehorn