Over 1,000 scientific and technical articles, specifically chosen for their relevance to transportation fires, were incorporated into a searchable bibliography. A searchable database was developed which incorporates the title, authors, source, publication year, associated keywords and, in many cases, an abstract for the citation. The database provides a mechanism to search the incorporated transportation fire safety literature for articles containing specific information. Transportation fire safety information that is reported in the scientific literature encompasses: the causes, propagation, severity and extinguishment of fires in passenger carriers, as well as, the flammability characteristics of the fuels and materials used in such vehicles. The advantage of this software package is that one can quickly locate scientific literature associated with a particular transportation fire topic (eg the radiant heat flux from a hydrocarbon pool fire or the critical heat flux required for the ignition of polypropylene). This is accomplished by searching the keywords that were selected for each citation. (A)
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