World Transit Research
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-17
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
Public Transport Research Group (PTRG), Monash University
Location of system headquarters:
Melbourne, AU
Year of launch:
2010
Type:
Repository
URL:
X-Handle:
N/A
Description of search system (by system owner)
World Transit Research (WTR) is designed to help public transport practitioners and researchers get easier access to quality research in the field of public transport planning. WTR is a free repository of research papers, reports, research abstracts and links to research findings from leading research journals indexed and searchable to ensure easier access to topics of interest.
Total coverage:
7.96M
Year-over-year growth (2021-2022):
-1.60%
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
1804–2023
Record types:
6
Open Access records:
N/A
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
sufficient
Backward citation searching:
limited
Forward citation searching:
limited
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
2
Query
Latency with short query:
0.55 seconds
Latency with long query:
1.6 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
8
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
250 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
250 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
4
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
6
Results filters:
5
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
N/A
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
N/A
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
Full
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
1
Export formats:
0
API:
no
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
N/A
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
N/A
