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From Tech Transfer Newsletter, Spring 2009
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Now Available for Loan: New Reference and Training Material
Looking for a training refresher or a reference book? Interested in learning about a new best practice or reading up on a standard? Want to train your entire staff using a DVD? We can help.
The Technology Transfer Program offers local agencies in California free access to multimedia and print library resources through Local Technical Assistance Program funding. Videos and CD-ROMs can be used for self guided training, and books and manuals are important reference resources. Browse our newest selection of material below, and request a resource today.
Multimedia Library
Our Multimedia Library Collection contains more than 700 CD-ROMs, DVDs, and VHS tapes and is constantly updated with new material. Browse our entire collection at www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/videos.
New in the Multimedia Training Library:
Administration and Finance
- Private Partnerships for Public Needs, APWA, CD-ROM, 2009. CD-755
- Strategic Communication: Capitalize your Time with the Public, Councils Media, APWA, CD-ROM, 2005. CD-757
Heavy Equipment
- Fuel Crisis Toolkit, America Trucking Associations (ATA), DVD, 2008. DV-746
- S-Cam Brake Adjustment, ATA, VHS, 2006. VH-747
Infrastructure Design
- Complete Streets, American Planning Association (APA), VHS, 2007. VH-751
- Infrastructure Planning: An Expanded View, APA, CD-ROM, 2007. CD-750
- Lessons Learned in Streetscaping Projects, APWA, CD-ROM, 2006. CD-758
- Traffic Calming: Retrofitting Existing Neighborhoods, APWA CD-ROM, 2003. CD-752
Maintenance
- Innovative Ideas for Sidewalk Management, APWA, CD-ROM, 2004. CD-754
- Porous Pavement – How is it Performing? APWA, CD-ROM, 2008. CD-756
Safety
- Developing an Effective Safety Program, American Public Works Association (APWA), CD-ROM, 2007. CD-753
- Playing it Safe with PPE: Personal Protective Equipment – Your Last Line of Defense, American Road and Transportation Builders Association, DVD, 2009. DV-749
- Protecting Our Future: Reducing Traffic Fatalities on Tribal Lands, Washington Traffic Safety Commission, DVD, 2009. DV-748
Transportation Library
Employees of California public sector transportation agencies are eligible for free loans of material from the vast collection of the Institute of Transportation Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Search the collection and request an item at library.its.berkeley.edu.
New books in the Transportation Studies Library:
Bridges
- AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, Customary U.S. Units, 4th Edition, 2009 Interim Revisions, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), 2009.
- AASHTO Transportation Glossary, 4th Edition AASHTO, 2009. Guide Specifications for LRFD Seismic Bridge Design AASHTO, 2009.
- Bridge Management by M.J. Ryall, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
- Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaries and Traffic Signals, 5th Edition, AASHTO, 2009.
Pavements
- Pavement Cracking: Mechanisms, Modeling, Detection and Case Histories Edited by Imad L. Al-Qadi, Tom Scarpas, and Andreas Loizos, CRC Press, 2008.
- Pavement Engineering: Principles and Practice by Rajib B. Mallick and Tahar El-Korchi, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.
- Porous Pavements by Bruce K. Ferguson, CRC Press, 2005.
- Principles of Pavement Engineering by Nick Thom, Thomas Telford Ltd., 2008.
Walkability
- Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities, Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2005.
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