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Find a MnDOT Research & Innovation, Local Road Research Board, National Road Research Alliance, or MnDOT Traffic Engineering project.
Research project database
- Research reports, manuals and guidebooks for a wide range of transportation-related research projects. (Projects completed prior to 2000 are only available in the MnDOT Digital Library.)
- Research summaries, two-page briefs highlighting the purpose, background, and findings of selected research projects.
- Transportation research syntheses that include a literature search, analysis of interviews or surveys about the research topic, and reports about current practice in departments of transportation. The resources found are clearly organized and summarized, with contact names, web links and other specifications.
More MnDOT research programs
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
- Maintenance Operations Research
- Materials and Road Research
- MnROAD Research
- Traffic Engineering Publications and Reports
National and international research resources
- Transport Research International Documentation
TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide. It combines the records from the Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation Database (ITRD). Watch this video tutorial to learn how to search the TRID database. - Repository & Open Science Access Portal
ROSAP is managed by the United States Department of Transportation's National Transportation Library. It is designated as the full-text repository for USDOT-funded research and also includes digital properties for state DOTs and other organizations. - Transportation Libraries Group Catalog
The catalogue helps locate transportation-related books and other materials held in government, university and other transportation libraries.