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Utah Department of Transportation

ROR OpenAlex
Research works
97
▼ 47% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.8k
18.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
26%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Utah Department of Transportation is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Earth and Planetary Sciences: 9.37× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 3.23× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.80× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.98× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Utah Department of Transportation?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Intelligent Transportation Systems, Deep Learning, Traffic Flow, Driver Behavior, Public Transport, Travel Behavior, Urban Traffic and Probabilistic Forecasting.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning10▲ 4.8×11 topics
  2. Intelligent Transportation Systems8▲ 96×3 topics
  3. Traffic Flow8▲ 128×2 topics
  4. Driver Behavior6▲ 99×2 topics
  5. Public Transport6▲ 100×1 topic
  6. Travel Behavior6▲ 76×1 topic
  7. Environmental Impact5▲ 3.9×7 topics
  8. Risk Factors5▲ 4.8×2 topics
  9. Urban Traffic5▲ 78×2 topics
  10. Neural Networks5▲ 4.5×3 topics
  11. Probabilistic Forecasting5▲ 36×2 topics
  12. Injury Severity4▲ 65×2 topics
  13. Road Safety4▲ 146×1 topic
  14. Traffic Accidents4▲ 128×1 topic
  15. Short-Term Forecasting4▲ 64×1 topic
  16. Spatio-Temporal Data4▲ 132×1 topic
  17. Convolutional Neural Networks4▲ 9.5×5 topics
  18. Finite Element Analysis4▲ 15×4 topics
  19. Liquefaction4▲ 47×2 topics
  20. Tunnel4▲ 47×2 topics
  21. Analysis3▲ 31×2 topics
  22. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control3▲ 122×1 topic
  23. Image Processing3▲ 11×4 topics
  24. Microscopic Simulation3▲ 122×1 topic
  25. Pipeline3▲ 35×2 topics
  26. Earthquake3▲ 59×1 topic
  27. Seismic3▲ 59×1 topic
  28. Crack Detection3▲ 71×1 topic
  29. Pavement3▲ 71×1 topic
  30. Soil Properties2▲ 17×3 topics
  31. Water Quality2▲ 6.0×4 topics
  32. Autonomous Vehicles2▲ 17×3 topics
  33. Risk Perception2▲ 13×3 topics
  34. Finite Element Simulation2▲ 55×2 topics
  35. Crash Tests2▲ 202×1 topic
  36. Guardrail Systems2▲ 202×1 topic
  37. Recycled Materials2▲ 27×2 topics
  38. Soil Reinforcement2▲ 34×2 topics
  39. Automation2▲ 30×2 topics
  40. Freshwater Salinization2▲ 73×1 topic

Which research topics does Utah Department of Transportation publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Traffic and Road Safety, Traffic control and management, Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques and Vehicle emissions and performance.

Traffic and Road Safety1Traffic and Road Safety: 1 fractional worksTraffic control and mana…0Traffic control and management: 0 fractional worksTraffic Prediction and M…0Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques: 0 fractional worksVehicle emissions and pe…0Vehicle emissions and performance: 0 fractional worksTransportation Planning and Optimization: 0 fractional worksArchaeology and ancient environmental studies: 0 fractional worksArchaeology and Rock Art…0Archaeology and Rock Art Studies: 0 fractional worksHistorical and Cultural …0Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies: 0 fractional worksLandslides and related h…0Landslides and related hazards: 0 fractional worksCryospheric studies and …0Cryospheric studies and observations: 0 fractional works
Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityControl and Systems EngineeringBuilding and ConstructionAutomotive Engineering6 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 1 works
  2. 2 Traffic control and management Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques Building and Construction 0 works
  4. 4 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 0 works
  6. 6 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 0 works
  7. 7 Archaeology and Rock Art Studies Archeology 0 works
  8. 8 Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Anthropology 0 works
  9. 9 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 works
  10. 10 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available26.0%not open74.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.2%domestic only96.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Utah Department of Transportation's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 47% lower than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.