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Virginia Transportation Research Council

In research, Virginia Transportation Research Council stands highest in Civil and Structural Engineering (#777 of 1,663 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#9,009 of 17,446 worldwide) and Engineering (#5,299 of 9,532 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Civil and Structural Engineering and Engineering (Civil and Structural Engineering is 37.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#20,043
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#4,153
of 7,310
Research works
389
▼ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.2k
15.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Virginia Transportation Research Council

What is Virginia Transportation Research Council known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield #777 of 1,663 5.2%157
Physical SciencesDomain #9,009 of 17,446 6.4%318
EngineeringField #5,299 of 9,532 6.4%276

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Virginia Transportation Research Council sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Virginia Transportation Research Council work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research at Virginia Transportation Research Council is in Physical Sciences, 11% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (76%), Social Sciences (7%), Materials Science (4%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 52 fractional works · 86.1% of its workEngineering: 46 fractional works · 75.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 27 fractional works · 44.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 9.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 4 fractional works · 6.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 4.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMetals and Alloys: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 11.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 7.1% of its workTransportation: 4 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKVirginiaTransportation…60fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences86%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences11%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering4675.7%
    2. Materials Science24.1%
    3. Environmental Science23.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy11.3%
    5. Mathematics00.7%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    7. Computer Science00.1%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Social Sciences47.1%
    2. Psychology11.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting11.0%
    4. Decision Sciences00.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    1. Health Professions11.0%
    2. Medicine00.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Virginia Transportation Research Council specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Civil and Structural Engineering takes 37.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 26.9 works38×
  2. EngineeringField · 45.7 works5.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Chemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 5.05× its world share, 46 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.80× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.19× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.86× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.56× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering5.05×46 works
  2. Materials Science1.19×2 works
  3. Decision Sciences0.86×0 works
  4. Environmental Science0.80×2 works
  5. Mathematics0.63×0 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy0.57×1 works
  7. Social Sciences0.56×4 works
  8. Psychology0.54×1 works
  9. Health Professions0.38×1 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.31×1 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.13×0 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.12×0 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.12×0 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.10×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×0 works
  16. Medicine0.03×0 works
  17. Chemistry0.02×0 works
  18. Computer Science0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Virginia Transportation Research Council?

Ranked on the quality score, Brian D. Prowell, Noah J. Goodall and Amir Behravan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Virginia Transportation Research Council.

  1. 1 Brian D. Prowell United States · #1,264,504 worldwide 2.6k citations · 94 works
  2. 2 Noah J. Goodall United States · #1,437,004 worldwide 1.6k citations · 62 works
  3. 3 Amir Behravan United States · #2,256,865 worldwide 704 citations · 38 works
  4. 4 Changju Lee United States · #2,627,524 worldwide 744 citations · 58 works
  5. 5 Jhony Habbouche United States · #2,713,951 worldwide 810 citations · 71 works
  6. 6 Stacey D. Diefenderfer United States · #3,030,154 worldwide 946 citations · 69 works
  7. 7 Young‐Jun Kweon United States · #3,799,810 worldwide 1.4k citations · 64 works
  8. 8 Michael D. Fontaine United States · #3,885,160 worldwide 1.9k citations · 155 works
  9. 9 Thomas E. Freeman United States · #4,117,573 worldwide 299 citations · 29 works
  10. 10 Bengt F. Friberg United States · #4,194,283 worldwide 176 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at Virginia Transportation Research Council

What are the most cited papers from Virginia Transportation Research Council?

The most cited paper from Virginia Transportation Research Council is "Traffic Flow Forecasting: Comparison of Modeling Approaches" (Brian Lee Smith, M J Demetsky, 1997), with 683 citations. Next come "Ethical Decision Making during Automated Vehicle Crashes" (297) and "Traffic Signal Control with Connected Vehicles" (277).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Traffic Flow Forecasting: Comparison of Modeling Approaches Brian Lee Smith, M J Demetsky · Journal of Transportation Engineering Jul 1997 683
2 Ethical Decision Making during Automated Vehicle Crashes Noah J. Goodall · Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board Open access 2014 297
3 Traffic Signal Control with Connected Vehicles Noah J. Goodall, Brian Lee Smith, Byungkyu Park · Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board Open access 2013 277
4 Microscopic Simulation Model Calibration and Validation: Case Study of VISSIM Simulation Model for a Coordinated Actuated Signal System Byungkyu Park, Josef Schneeberger · Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2003 261
5 Machine Ethics and Automated Vehicles Noah J. Goodall · Lecture notes in mobility Book chapterOpen access 2014 230
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Virginia Transportation Research Council?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Recycled Materials, Rheology, Nanomaterials, Life Cycle Assessment, Defect Detection, Crack Detection, Pavement and Asphalt.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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. Recycled Materials10▲ 154×2 topics
  2. Rheology8▲ 71×2 topics
  3. Deep Learning8▲ 4.0×3 topics
  4. Nanomaterials7▲ 11×2 topics
  5. Life Cycle Assessment7▲ 41×3 topics
  6. Defect Detection7▲ 88×3 topics
  7. Asphalt6▲ 323×1 topic
  8. Bitumen Modification6▲ 323×1 topic
  9. Crack Detection6▲ 155×1 topic
  10. Pavement6▲ 155×1 topic
  11. Geopolymer6▲ 64×2 topics
  12. Environmental Impact5▲ 5.3×6 topics
  13. Mechanical Properties5▲ 9.0×5 topics
  14. Artificial Neural Networks4▲ 15×2 topics
  15. CO2 Sequestration4▲ 33×3 topics
  16. Fiber Reinforced Concrete4▲ 84×1 topic
  17. Ultra-High Performance Concrete4▲ 84×1 topic
  18. Fly Ash4▲ 57×2 topics
  19. Nanotechnology4▲ 35×2 topics
  20. Alkali-Activated Materials4▲ 67×1 topic
  21. Cementitious Materials4▲ 67×1 topic
  22. 3D Printing3▲ 21×2 topics
  23. Additive Manufacturing3▲ 15×2 topics
  24. Driver Behavior2▲ 51×2 topics
  25. Travel Behavior2▲ 40×2 topics
  26. Public Transport2▲ 59×1 topic
  27. Service Quality2▲ 12×1 topic
  28. Autonomous Vehicles2▲ 15×2 topics
  29. Concrete Extrusion2▲ 58×1 topic
  30. Construction Automation2▲ 58×1 topic
  31. Intelligent Transportation Systems2▲ 21×3 topics
  32. Active Travel2▲ 41×1 topic
  33. Built Environment2▲ 41×1 topic
  34. Sensors2▲ 23×1 topic
  35. Weigh-in-Motion2▲ 529×1 topic
  36. Concrete2▲ 75×2 topics
  37. Injury Severity2▲ 33×1 topic
  38. Liquefaction2▲ 31×2 topics
  39. Traffic Accidents2▲ 60×1 topic
  40. Traffic Flow2▲ 26×2 topics

Which research topics does Virginia Transportation Research Council publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation, Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring, Innovative concrete reinforcement materials and Concrete and Cement Materials Research.

Asphalt Pavement Perform…6Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation: 6 fractional worksInfrastructure Maintenan…6Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 6 fractional worksInnovative concrete reinforcement materials: 4 fractional worksConcrete and Cement Materials Research: 4 fractional worksTransportation Planning and Optimization: 2 fractional worksInnovations in Concrete …2Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials: 2 fractional worksTransport Systems and Technology: 2 fractional worksUrban Transport and Accessibility: 2 fractional worksTraffic and Road Safety: 2 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 1 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringTransportationBuilding and ConstructionMechanical Engineering1 others

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

  1. 1 Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation Civil and Structural Engineering 6 works
  2. 2 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 6 works
  3. 3 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials Civil and Structural Engineering 4 works
  4. 4 Concrete and Cement Materials Research Civil and Structural Engineering 4 works
  5. 5 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 2 works
  6. 6 Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials Building and Construction 2 works
  7. 7 Transport Systems and Technology Mechanical Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Urban Transport and Accessibility Transportation 2 works
  9. 9 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 2 works
  10. 10 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 1 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 available12.5%not open87.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.0%domestic only94.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Virginia Transportation Research Council's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Virginia Transportation Research Council as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00030% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Virginia Transportation Research Council0.00017% in 202519801990200020102020

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