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National Perspective

Throughout the country, regional transportation knowledge networks (TKNs) are established or being developed to help facilitate access to information in support of transportation development.

The cooperative efforts of TKNs

• provide the combined resources of all institutions to members,
• deliver a wider pool of expertise to locate and provide needed information,
• create a platform for interoperability for tools and information, and
• enable leveraging of resources through coordinated acquisitions and lending agreements.
  • Local point of contact for access to local, regional, and national information resources
  • Improved and new services and tools for eastern/southeastern transportation community
  • Ensured access and preservation to all participant institution’s information products

• Researchers
• Policy Makers
• Students
• Engineers

• The High Cost of Not Finding Information: An IDC White Paper