Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1956. 18.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the technology and safety systems related to autonomous vehicles, including trajectory prediction, driver assistance systems, lane detection, collision avoidance, pedestrian behavior analysis, sensor fusion, deep learning applications, urban driving challenges, and machine learning techniques.
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Trajectory Prediction
- Driver Assistance Systems
- Lane Detection
- Collision Avoidance
- Pedestrian Behavior
- Sensor Fusion
- Deep Learning
- Urban Driving
- Machine Learning
- Research works
- 30k fractional, since 1956
- In the world top 10%
- 5.6k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 18.6% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +144% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4.3k and 1.5k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 4.3k works
- 2 United States 1.5k works
- 3 India 1.3k works
- 4 Germany 668 works
- 5 South Korea 420 works
- 6 Japan 386 works
- 7 United Kingdom 282 works
- 8 Italy 232 works
- 9 Canada 228 works
- 10 France 208 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Tongji University publishes the most Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety research, followed by Tsinghua University and Beijing Institute of Technology.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Tongji UniversityChina 201 works
- 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 174 works
- 3 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 118 works
- 4 Southeast UniversityChina 101 works
- 5 Jilin UniversityChina 92 works
- 6 Beihang UniversityChina 90 works
- 7 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 87 works
- 8 Chang'an UniversityChina 82 works
- 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 73 works
- 10 Technical University of MunichGermany 69 works
Who are the leading researchers in Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety include Dragomir Anguelov, Jitendra Malik and Deva Ramanan.
- 1 Dragomir Anguelov United States 18k citations
- 2 Jitendra Malik United States 12k citations
- 3 Deva Ramanan United States 11k citations
- 4 Sebastian Thrun United States 10k citations
- 5 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 8.5k citations
- 6 Ming–Hsuan Yang United States 7.4k citations
- 7 Bernt Schiele Germany 6.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety research done?
The largest centres of Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ingolstadt, Torrance and Dearborn.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- IngolstadtDE · 25.1 works47×
- TorranceUS · 20.7 works27×
- DearbornUS · 20.1 works22×
- Changchun22.3 works20×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety?
Among universities, judged by research, Nanyang Technological University, Tongji University and Tsinghua University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore | 80.3 | 42.2% | 6.9× | 65 | +267.4% |
| 2 | Tongji UniversityChina | 74.0 | 17.9% | 13.3× | 201 | +218.3% |
| 3 | Tsinghua UniversityChina | 69.2 | 25.2% | 7.5× | 174 | +161.0% |
| 4 | Technical University of MunichGermany | 67.9 | 25.3% | 7.5× | 69 | +259.6% |
| 5 | Southeast UniversityChina | 65.3 | 24.9% | 6.4× | 101 | +290.5% |
| 6 | Cranfield UniversityUnited Kingdom | 64.8 | 28.5% | 11.9× | 19 | +132.5% |
| 7 | Wuhan University of TechnologyChina | 61.5 | 11.2% | 9.2× | 87 | +217.4% |
| 8 | University of Central FloridaUnited States | 60.4 | 38.2% | 5.0× | 22 | +403.4% |
| 9 | Technische Hochschule IngolstadtGermany | 58.6 | 14.8% | 60.1× | 22 | +880.3% |
| 10 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 57.7 | 26.0% | 3.5× | 36 | +385.7% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 144% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.