Question 1

Which countries lead Traffic and Road Safety research?

Accepted Answer

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

Question 2

Which institutions lead Traffic and Road Safety research?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Traffic and Road Safety research, followed by Southeast University and Chang'an University.

Question 3

Who are the leading researchers in Traffic and Road Safety?

Accepted Answer

The most-cited researchers publishing on Traffic and Road Safety include Christopher J L Murray, Simon Iain Hay and Theo Vos.

Question 4

Where is Traffic and Road Safety research done?

Accepted Answer

The largest centres of Traffic and Road Safety research in 2022-now 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 San Marcos and Nakhon Ratchasima.

Question 5

Where is the best place to study Traffic and Road Safety?

Accepted Answer

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Southeast University and University of Central Florida 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.

Question 6

Is Traffic and Road Safety research growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Traffic and Road Safety.

Question 7

What are the most cited papers in Traffic and Road Safety?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper in Traffic and Road Safety is "Travel and the Built Environment" (Reid Ewing, Robert Cervero, 2010), with 5,353 citations. Next come "Congested traffic states in empirical observations and microscopic simulations" (4,784) and "AUC: a misleading measure of the performance of predictive distribution models" (3,552).