The example above shows the new "default" setting for highlight search terms in yellow, which makes it MUCH easier to see keywords in the search results displayed below. 
 

Here's a great piece of news: the TRID database has re-activated the handy "highlight search keywords" feature which helps database users spot key terms in their search results. 

"Old timers" like me may remember that nifty feature was around but went away back in 2011 when TRB teamed up with ITRD to re-brand the old "TRIS" database with the new name "TRID." To be fair, the database was improved overall with all kinds of new search functionality, but highlighting fell to the wayside.

In fact, that highlighting now displays "by default" when you do a search (though users can turn it off if that is their preference), and it displays not only on the "brief results" screen (as shown above) but also when you view a "full record." 

For example, clicking on item 6 in the list of 744 results makes the full bibliographic results for that record appear to the right, and you can see your key terms highlighted there too (shown below): 
 

If you haven't used it before why not give it a shot?  After all, TRID is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information, with more than 1.25 million records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles in the field of transportation research. More than 600 serial titles are regularly scanned and indexed for TRID, which is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board of the US National Academies with sponsorship by State Departments of Transportation, the various administrations at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors of TRB's core technical activities.