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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. 10.1% 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%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+36%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transportation and Mobility Innovations

Which countries lead Transportation and Mobility Innovations research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.2k and 1.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.2k works
  2. 2 United States 1.7k works
  3. 3 India 828 works
  4. 4 Germany 697 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 467 works
  6. 6 Italy 399 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 384 works
  8. 8 France 339 works
  9. 9 Japan 328 works
  10. 10 Canada 321 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: 36.9%United States: 19.3%India: 9.6%Germany: 8.1%6 others listed: 26.0%37%largest
China3,175 · 36.9%United States1,665 · 19.3%India828 · 9.6%Germany697 · 8.1%6 others listed2,239 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Transportation and Mobility Innovations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Jiaotong University publishes the most Transportation and Mobility Innovations research, followed by Tongji University and Southeast University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 118 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 110 works
  3. 3 Southeast UniversityChina 87 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 87 works
  5. 5 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 73 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 66 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 63 works
  8. 8 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 63 works
  9. 9 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 56 works
  10. 10 Technical University of MunichGermany 52 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transportation and Mobility Innovations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transportation and Mobility Innovations include John C. Morris, Marko Sarstedt and Steven J.M. Jones.

  1. 1 John C. Morris United States 241k citations
  2. 2 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  3. 3 Steven J.M. Jones Canada 200k citations
  4. 4 Michael I. Jordan United States 182k citations

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

What are the most cited papers in Transportation and Mobility Innovations?

The most cited paper in Transportation and Mobility Innovations is "Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for simulating human systems" (Eric W. Bonabeau, 2002), with 4,562 citations. Next come "Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems with Time Window Constraints" (4,300) and "Preparing a nation for autonomous vehicles: opportunities, barriers and policy recommendations" (3,145).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for simulating human systems Eric W. Bonabeau · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 14 May 2002 4,562
2 Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems with Time Window Constraints Marius M. Solomon · Operations Research Apr 1987 4,300
3 Preparing a nation for autonomous vehicles: opportunities, barriers and policy recommendations Daniel J. Fagnant, Kara Maria Kockelman · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice 15 May 2015 3,145
4 You are what you can access: Sharing and collaborative consumption online Russell W. Belk · Journal of Business Research 16 Oct 2013 2,952
5 The sustainable mobility paradigm David Banister · Transport Policy 26 Nov 2007 2,717
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Transportation and Mobility Innovations research done?

The largest centres of Transportation and Mobility Innovations research in 2022-now 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 Arlington.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 663 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 317 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 209 works
  4. 4 Hong KongChina 147 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 142 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 126 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 122 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 118 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 116 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 115 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Champs-sur-MarneFR · 33.2 works11×
  2. ArlingtonUS · 22.3 works8.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and University of Hong Kong 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%10%20%30%mean 21.2%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong University…Hong Kong Polytechni…University of Hong K…Tsinghua University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 78.921.9%7.8×73 +119.2%
2Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 75.223.1%8.7×39 +89.4%
3University of Hong KongChina 70.921.4%4.2×43 +39.6%
4Tsinghua UniversityChina 68.819.7%3.4×86 +59.2%
5National University of SingaporeSingapore 68.723.9%3.1×40 +30.1%
6Chalmers University of TechnologySweden 67.226.9%7.5×21 +38.1%
7HEC MontréalCanada 65.822.7%15.6×8 +21.1%
8Tongji UniversityChina 65.714.5%6.6×110 +64.3%
9The University of SydneyAustralia 65.121.7%3.1×41 +27.4%
10Southeast UniversityChina 63.916.2%5.4×87 +18.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Transportation and Mobility Innovations, country by country

Is Transportation and Mobility Innovations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Transportation and Mobility Innovations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.058% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Transportation and Mobility Innovations over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Transportation and Mobility Innovations9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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