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Risk-related databases are listed
by topic below. To submit a database to this
listing, contact Mary Bryant, bryant@tec-com.com
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| Risk Assessment & Management |
| Engineering
-- Safety & Reliability |
| Environmental
Risks |
| Health Risks |
| Food Safety and Nutrition |
| Safety and
Health |
| Risks
in Everyday Life |
| Science, General |
| Technology |
| Transportation |
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| Risk Assessment & Management |
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Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey Health Insurance Component (MEPSnet/IC)
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| The United States Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality's MEPSnet/IC--a collection of analytical
tools that operate on MEPS data--provides easy access to national statistics
and trends about health insurance offered by private establishments and
state and local governments. MEPSnet/IC guides the user step-by-step to
generate statistics using 1996, 1997, and 1998 data from the Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey Insurance Component. (Posted May 2001.) |
| http://meps.ahrq.gov/MEPSNet/IC/mepsnetic.asp |
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Risk Assessment
Information System (RAIS)
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| RAIS contains risk assessment tools
and information that include risk-based preliminary remediation goal (PRG)
calculations, a toxicity data base, risk calculations, and ecological
benchmarks. The tools are designed for use at all U.S. Department of Energy
sites and can be customized for site-specific conditions. RAIS also includes
information, guidance, and risk results applicable to the Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, reservation. This work has been sponsored by the DOE Office
of Environmental Management, Oak Ridge
Operations Office through a contract with Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC. (Posted January 2000, updated March 2000.) |
| http://risk.lsd.ornl.gov/rap_hp.shtml |
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| Engineering -- Safety
& Reliability |
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RiskAndReliability.com
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| This non-profit web site on reliability engineering and
risk analysis has topical indexes to web sites and databases. (Updated
November 2000; posted
February
2000.) |
| http://www.riskandreliability.com/ |
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| Environmental
Risks
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Central Internet Database
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| The U.S. Department of Energy has
established CID to provide easier access to information on radioactive waste,
hazardous materials, and facilities across the DOE complex. CID provides
detailed information on department inventories and management activities for
the following: low-level, transuranic and high-level waste; contaminated
media; spent nuclear fuel; facilities; non-radioactive hazardous waste; toxic
chemicals; materials in inventory; and buried transuranic waste. The initial
release of CID, announced January 31, 2000, will be followed by updates adding
more data and user functions to the system in February and March. DOE has
committed to updating the database on a regular basis for the next six years. (Posted February 2000.) |
| http://cid.em.doe.gov/ |
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Envirofacts Data
Warehouse and Applications
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| A single point of direct access to
select U.S. Environmental Protection Agency environmental data, this website
allows the public to retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on Air, Chemicals, Facility Information, Grants/Funding, Hazardous Waste, Risk Management
Plans, Superfund,
Toxic Releases,
and Water Permits,
Drinking Water, Drinking Water
Contaminant Occurrence, and Drinking Water Microbial
and Disinfection Byproduct Information (Information Collection Rule [ICR]).
Information retrieval is available from several databases at once or from one
database at a time. Online queries allow data to be retrieved for creating
reports or for generating maps of environmental information by selecting from
several mapping applications available through EPA's Maps On Demand. (Posted February 2000.) |
| http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html |
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Environmental Information
Management System
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| The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Office of Research and Development has developed a scientific
environmental information management system (EIMS) that stores, manages, and
delivers descriptive information (metadata) for data sets, databases,
documents, models, multimedia, projects, and spatial information. EIMS is a
repository of products and metadata. The descriptive information in metadata
enables users to evaluate and use the products. EIMS stores and maintains
descriptive information in a relational database and refers to the products
(data, documents, etc.) stored either within EIMS or as distributed external
files. (Posted February 2000.) |
| http://www.epa.gov/eims/eims.html |
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European Pollutant
Emission Register (EPER)
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| The first
European-wide register to provide public, Internet access to information on
the annual emissions of industrial facilities in the European Union's member
states and in Norway, EPER is based on triennial data reports covering 50
pollutants that must be included if certain threshold values are exceeded.
The first set of emissions data, covering the year 2001, was published in
February 2004. The second set, covering 2004, will be reported in 2006. The
European Environment Agency hosts the EPER website, which provides various
ways to search the register and includes links to national registers and
related EU and international organizations. (Posted March 2004.) |
| http://www.eper.cec.eu.int/ |
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FishBase
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| This
global information system contains key data on the biology of practically all
fish species known to science. The relational database caters to
professionals--such as research scientists, fisheries managers, and
zoologists--but provides all anyone--including anglers, scholars, and
policymakers--would want to know about fishes. FishBase is available on the
Web and on four CD-ROMs with a book that gives in-depth information about
the concepts and data sources of the system. (Posted May
2002.) |
| http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm |
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| InfoMap
Technologies, Inc. |
| InfoMap Technologies, Inc. is an Environmental
Information Company which provides online environmental records reports with
increased accuracy to environmental engineers in order to meet their due
diligence requirements, environmental attorneys to meet specific needs of
their clients, corporate environmental officers and the banking community so
they can minimize exposure in dealing with their properties.
InfoMap provides a variety of environmental reports that enable decision
makers to instantly access and review information on environmental risks
associated with any site, corporation or area of interest.
InfoMap is a partner in the Environmental FirstSearch Network, a national
network of information companies working together to provide a Regional
Focus while providing National Service.
Our Environmental FirstSearch software is designed to give you immediate
access to our geographical database as well as our proprietary online maps.
Designed to conform with the ASTM or AAI standard for a government records
search, the FirstSearch Report is comprehensive, accurate and easy to
interpret.
InfoMap is committed to providing the best customer service in the
industry. As a client you will receive personalized attention and our local
knowledge and experience will guarantee the most accurate reports in the
industry. We dedicate our time and effort to assure your security in using
Environmental FirstSearch reports. |
| http://www.efirstsearch.com |
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INVADERS Database System
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| The web site of this comprehensive
database of exotic plant names and weed distribution information for five
states in the northwestern United States can display the spatial and temporal
spread of weeds using historic distribution records, contains examples of how
the data are used to improve weed management programs, and includes a noxious weed list section
for the lower 48 United States and six southern Canadian provinces that can be
searched by plant
name, state
name, or by clicking on a map.
The software design of the INVADERS database structures and web-based query
interface can be adapted to cover other regions and/or provide a
national/continental scale system for early detection, tracking, and strategic
management of invasive species. (Posted August 2000.) |
| http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/ |
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| Man and
the Biosphere Species Databases |
| The Information Center for the Environment, in
association with the U.S. Man and the Biosphere (U.S. MAB) Program, is
developing databases of vascular plant and vertebrate animal occurrences on
the world's biosphere reserves and other protected areas. Currently, the
MABFlora (for vascular plants) and MABFauna (for vertebrate animals) databases
contain records from over 660 protected areas in 97 countries. The MABFlora
and MABFauna databases are continually updated as additional data are
received. (Posted October 2000.) |
| http://ice.ucdavis.edu/mab/ |
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PollutionWatch
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| Canadians can find out about chemical releases in their area through
PollutionWatch, an Internet service that provides pollution locators and
rankings by postal code, information on health effects and chemical
regulations, and ways to take action. A joint project of the Canadian
Environmental Defence Fund, Canadian Environmental Law Association, and
the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, PollutionWatch
merges information from approximately 300 databases to create instant
rankings based on pollution loads and health hazards for almost 2000
polluting facilities reporting in Canada. (Environmental Defense's Scorecard,
PollutionWatch's sister site, provides U.S. environmental information.) (Posted
April 2001.)
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| http://www.scorecard.org/pollutionwatch/ |
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Scorecard
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| Environmental Defense's Scorecard
provides free, easily accessible environmental information about the
United States on the Internet. The website provides information about
local air pollution and state-of-the-art interactive maps that can be
accessed by zip code, as well as information on the toxic chemicals
released by manufacturing facilities and the health risks of air
pollution. It also ranks and compares pollution in areas across the U.S.
and profiles 6,800 chemicals. Scorecard integrates more than 300
scientific and governmental databases as its data source. (PollutionWatch,
Scorecard's sister site, provides environmental information about Canada.) (Posted
April 2001.)
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| http://www.scorecard.org/ |
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State of
the Environment Reporting Information System (SERIS) of the
European Environment Agency
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| SERIS is an Internet-based
documentation of state of the environment (SoE) reports in European countries.
The system aims at providing an overview of SoE documents (paper reports,
internet versions, and policy-related products) per country and of the key
organizations involved in/being responsible for SoE reporting. The SERIS
system also provides an overview of environmental issues and sectors treated
in SoE reports, including risk management,
with links to information that is available on line. (Posted
March 2000.) |
| http://service.eea.eu.int/seris/ |
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Soil Screening
Calculations
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| The U.S. EPA's Soil Screening Guidance provides a simple
step-by-step methodology for environmental science/engineering professionals
to calculate risk-based, site-specific soil screening levels (SSLs) for
contaminants in soil that may be used to identify areas needing further
investigation at Superfund National Priorities List sites. The Soil Screening
Calculations web site, which is maintained by the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory's Toxicology
and Risk Analysis Section and is sponsored by the U.S. EPA's Office of
Emergency and Remedial Response, includes more chemicals than the
published Soil Screening Guidance and also an alternate equation for
"Ingestion of Carcinogenic Contaminants in Soil" to account for
those situations where a child is not a likely receptor. These have been added
to make the tool as comprehensive as possible. (Posted
January 2000.) |
| http://risk.lsd.ornl.gov/calc_start.htm |
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Sustainability Targets
And Reference (STAR) Database of the European Environment Agency
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| The STAR database is an inventory of
current environmental policy targets (standards, limit values, reductions or
restrictions established in a law or policy document and derived by mainly
political factors) and sustainability reference values (SRVs, which are
established and broadly agreed, mainly on a scientific basis, to be either
safe or acceptable or tolerable for human health and welfare, ecosystems, or
other natural resources) that apply in the European Union, and in a range of
countries in the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), in Central and
Eastern Europe (CEE), and in the Newly Independant States (NIS). (Posted March 2000.) |
| http://star.eea.eu.int/asp/default.asp |
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| Toxics Release Inventory |
| The TRI, a publicly
accessible toxic chemical database containing information concerning waste
management activities and the release of toxic chemicals by facilities that
manufacture, process, or use them, was developed and is maintained by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency under mandate of the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-To-Know Act (section 313) and the Pollution Prevention Act
(section 6607). Using this information, citizens, businesses, and governments
can work together to protect the quality of their land, air, and water. The
TRI web site includes the 1998
Toxics Release Inventory Public Data Release Report, published in
September 2000, which provides an overview of the 1998 TRI reporting year
data, and TRI Explorer, which
provides access to the TRI data that is easy to understand and flexible to
use. Combined with hazard and exposure information, the TRI Explorer can be a
valuable tool for risk identification. (Posted September
2000.) |
| http://www.epa.gov/tri/ |
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Food
Safety and Nutrition
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ComBase
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| ComBase, the world's largest on-line relational database of
predictive microbiology information, contains thousands of data sets that
describe the growth, survival, and inactivation of bacteria under diverse
environments relevant to food processing operations. Researchers and
institutions have donated the data sets, which have been derived from
published literature. A joint effort of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Agricultural Research Service and the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency
and Institute of Food Research, ComBase is designed to help make risk
assessments and model development easier and to facilitate research
cooperation among scientists studying predictive microbiology (read news
release). (Posted February 2004.)
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| http://wyndmoor.arserrc.gov/combase/
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Food Safety Research
Information Office
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| FSRIO at the National Agricultural Library provides the
research community and the general public with a tool for food safety
research and policy planning through an on-line database of information on
publicly funded and privately funded food safety research initiatives.
Congress mandated this initiative to prevent unintended duplication of food
safety research and to assist the U.S. government and private research
entities with assessing food safety research needs and priorities.
(Posted
July 2001.)
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| http://www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio/
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Health
Risks
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cancerfacts.com
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| Dedicated to providing cancer patients, caregivers, and health care
providers with accurate, meaningful, and personalized information needed to
make informed treatment decisions for an optimal outcome, cancerfacts.com is
the first company to use scientific data from significant clinical studies to
generate reports that are tailored to patients’ unique medical conditions
through the database tool Cancer Profiler™. The Consumer
site offers patients, their families, friends, and caregivers specific
Cancer Centers containing services that include the Cancer Profiler™ tool,
an on-line marketplace, e-mail discussion groups, and a searchable list of
cancer support groups. The Physician site,
currently for physicians only, contains resources including MEDLINE article
abstracts, the Physicians' Desk Reference® drug information and
interaction database, clinical trials listings, online discussion forums, and
cancer news. (Posted August 2000.) |
| http://www.cancerfacts.com/ |
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healthfinder® español
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| healthfinder® español contiene fuentes de información seleccionadas en español que le pueden servir de guía para tomar decisiones con relación a su salud.
healthfinder® es una guía gratuita de información confiable de la salud,
que ha sido desarrollada por el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de
los Estados Unidos (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). El sitio
proporciona un índice de búsqueda de uso fácil sobre información de la
salud que ha sido cuidadosamente revisada y que proviene de más de 1.800
agencias gubernamentales, organizaciones sin fines de lucro y universidades.
(Posted
October 2001.)
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| http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol/ |
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Integrated Risk
Information System (IRIS)
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IRIS, prepared and maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
is an electronic database of information on human health effects that may
result from exposure to various chemicals found in the environment. The
consistent information on chemical substances that IRIS provides is used in
risk assessment, decision making, and regulatory activities and is intended
for use by those who do not have extensive training in toxicology but have
some knowledge of health sciences.
The IRIS web page includes an alphabetical listing of the chemical files in
IRIS, searchable by name and Chemical Abstracts Service Registry number;
background documents and references; limitations to the use of information in
IRIS; and a glossary of the scientific terms, acronyms, and abbreviations used
in IRIS. (Posted May 12, 1997.)
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| http://www.epa.gov/ngispgm3/iris/index.html |
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International Toxicity Estimates for
Risk
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| The on-line International Toxicity
Estimates for Risk (ITER) database of peer-reviewed chemical risk assessments
is aimed at risk assessors and managers who need human health toxicity values
to make risk-based decisions. The non-profit Toxicology
Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) organization compiles the database
from risk values from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health Canada,
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry, and other sources in a consistent format to make
comparisons easier. (Posted December 2, 1996.) |
| http://www.tera.org/iter/ |
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OECD Health Data 2002
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| The Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development has released its second, and
final, Internet update file for OECD Health Data 2002, an essential
tool for health researchers and policy advisors that offers the most
comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems
across OECD countries. This second Internet update includes all of the
data of the first Internet update, which was released on June 18. The
database is also for sale on CD-ROM in single-user and network versions
for profit and non-profit organizations. For links to download or order
the database and for more information, go to its homepage. (posted
8/9/02) |
| http://www.oecd.org/oecd/pages/home/displaygeneral/0,3380,EN-links_abstract-684-5-no-no-1125-684,00.html |
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| Risks
in Everyday Life |
| Risk
Analysis Center |
| A large and ever growing
on-line database containing abstracts of risk-related information is the
heart of Risk Analysis Center, a major information resource on the subject
of risks affecting humans that aims to contribute to better public
understanding of, and ability to evaluate, risk in everyday life. The
abstracts come from articles containing information about risk that appear
in the press (leading newspapers are scanned daily) and in scientific,
medical and technical journals. Risk material from books, papers, and
technical reports from academic, research and other institutions is also
included. Other features include a risk bibiliography, articles and
discussion papers on risk subjects, and a directory of links to risk-related
Web sites. NTC Publishing, a part of the Information Sciences group, based
in Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom, has developed the center. Access to
Risk Analysis Center is free, but registration is required for full access
to the database. (Posted April 2001.) |
| http://www.risk-analysis-center.com/newhome.asp |
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| Safety and Health |
| NIOSHTIC-2 |
| This online, searchable bibliographic database of
occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and other
communication products supported in whole or in part by the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) contains approximately 32,000 occupational safety
and health information resource citations. Some 20,000 of the resources date from 1971 to the present. The additional 12,000 publications, which date from the 1930s to the present, come from the NIOSH
Mining Safety & Health Research Laboratories (formerly the U. S. Bureau of
Mines). (Posted: September 19, 2003.) |
| http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic-2/ |
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| Science, General |
| Canadian Community of
Science |
| The Canadian Community of
Science network, which restricts access to many of its resources to
subscribers only, is a repository of searchable scientific information
compiled from major universities and research organizations in Canada. Its
databases include a directory of Canadian researchers; funding opportunities
available from federal, state, and private sponsors in Canada; inventions made
at Canadian universities and research organizations; a listing of Canadian
research facilities; and the inventory of Canadian Agri-Food Research. (Posted:
December 3, 1996.) |
| http://cos.gdb.org/work/best-dbs-canada.html |
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Technology
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NASA TechTracS
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has developed and is
making available to the public NASA TechTracS, a database of all
NASA programs, technologies, and success stories that may have commercial
potential and benefits. Searching the database for "risk"
produces a list of specific new technologies
with commercial potential and NASA-funded tasks (program
area contracts and grants) that may produce technologies with
commercial potential. (Updated April 2000.)
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| http://technology.larc.nasa.gov/default.html |
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Transportation
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| TranStats
(replaces Intermodal Transportation Data
Base) |
| This Bureau of Transportation Statistics Web site provides
transportation researchers and analysts "one-stop
shopping" for transportation data. Replacing the former
Intermodal Transportation Data Base (ITDB), the new site's
features include a searchable index of over 100
transportation-related data bases across every transportation
mode, a selective download capability to choose variables of
interest and to download the data to a PC for analysis using any
data base, spreadsheet, or statistical package, data
documentation, interactive analytical tools, interactive mapping,
and a mapping center with the full National Transportation Atlas
Data Base. Read the news
release. (Posted September 2002.) |
| http://transtats.bts.gov/ |
