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Transportation and Mobility Innovations

Transportation and Mobility Innovations is a research topic within Automotive Engineering. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 23.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the implications of shared autonomous vehicle services, including topics such as ridesharing, mobility as a service, dynamic ride-sharing, environmental impacts, urban transportation, agent-based modeling, carsharing systems, public transit integration, and autonomous vehicle adoption.

  • Shared Autonomous Vehicles
  • Ridesharing
  • Mobility as a Service
  • Dynamic Ride-Sharing
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Urban Transportation
  • Agent-Based Model
  • Carsharing Systems
  • Public Transit Integration
  • Autonomous Vehicle Adoption
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
23.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+107%
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Which countries lead Transportation and Mobility Innovations research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.7k and 1.5k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 2.7k works
  2. 2 United States 1.5k works
  3. 3 India 715 works
  4. 4 Germany 642 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 425 works
  6. 6 Italy 371 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 361 works
  8. 8 France 318 works
  9. 9 Japan 309 works
  10. 10 Canada 295 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.

China: 35.1%United States: 19.8%India: 9.4%Germany: 8.4%6 others listed: 27.3%35%largest
China2,678 · 35.1%United States1,510 · 19.8%India715 · 9.4%Germany642 · 8.4%6 others listed2,079 · 27.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Transportation and Mobility Innovations research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Beijing Jiaotong University publishes the most Transportation and Mobility Innovations research, followed by Tongji University and Tsinghua University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing Jiaotong University China 107 works
  2. 2 Tongji University China 100 works
  3. 3 Tsinghua University China 81 works
  4. 4 Southeast University China 78 works
  5. 5 Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 62 works
  6. 6 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 59 works
  7. 7 Southwest Jiaotong University China 49 works
  8. 8 Technical University of Munich Germany 47 works
  9. 9 Politecnico di Milano Italy 44 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transportation and Mobility Innovations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transportation and Mobility Innovations include Witold Pedrycz, Xuemin Shen and Zhu Han.

  1. 1 Witold Pedrycz 5.4k citations
  2. 2 Xuemin Shen 5.1k citations
  3. 3 Zhu Han 4.7k citations
  4. 4 Dusit Niyato 4.5k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Transportation and Mobility Innovations research done?

The largest centres of Transportation and Mobility Innovations research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Hong Kong (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Champs-sur-Marne and Eindhoven.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 606 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 290 works
  3. 3 Nanjing China 189 works
  4. 4 Hong Kong China 129 works
  5. 5 Guangzhou China 126 works
  6. 6 Tokyo Japan 119 works
  7. 7 Xi'an China 109 works
  8. 8 Wuhan China 108 works
  9. 9 Chengdu China 105 works
  10. 10 Singapore Singapore 105 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Champs-sur-MarneFR · 31.0 works11×
  2. EindhovenNL · 39.0 works7.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transportation and Mobility Innovations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Transportation and Mobility Innovations?

Among universities, judged by research, Delft University of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and Beijing Jiaotong 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.

0%20%40%mean 27.09%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Delft University of Technology: 59, 30.4%Chalmers University of Technology: 18, 40.7%Beijing Jiaotong University: 107, 18.6%Hong Kong Polytechnic University: 62, 28.8%Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: 35, 27.7%Budapest University of Technology and Economics: 34, 14.8%Southeast University: 78, 23.7%Nanyang Technological University: 28, 37.3%Eindhoven University of Technology: 38, 27.2%Polytechnic University of Bari: 16, 21.7%Chalmers University …Delft University of …Hong Kong Polytechni…Beijing Jiaotong Uni…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Delft University of Technology Netherlands 68.530.4%7.9×59 +129.4%
2Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 67.340.7%6.5×18 +202.2%
3Beijing Jiaotong University China 66.518.6%15.6×107 +113.1%
4Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 65.328.8%6.3×62 +94.8%
5Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 61.627.7%8.1×35 +45.8%
6Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hungary 61.614.8%13.4×34 +604.3%
7Southeast University China 61.223.7%5.2×78 +200.2%
8Nanyang Technological University Singapore 61.237.3%3.1×28 +367.0%
9Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands 61.127.2%9.6×38 +26.7%
10Polytechnic University of Bari Italy 60.721.7%11.5×16 +216.4%

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 Transportation and Mobility Innovations research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 107% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Transportation and Mobility Innovations.

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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.

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.