Transportation Planning and Optimization
Transportation Planning and Optimization is a research topic within Transportation. Science Explorer counts 57k research works in it since 1950. 28.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on understanding attitudes towards public transport, travel behavior, service quality, route choice, congestion pricing, transit network design, travel time reliability, user satisfaction, traffic assignment, and urban mobility.
- Public Transport
- Travel Behavior
- Service Quality
- Route Choice
- Congestion Pricing
- Transit Network Design
- Travel Time Reliability
- User Satisfaction
- Traffic Assignment
- Urban Mobility
- Research works
- 57k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 16k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 28.8% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +34% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Transportation Planning and Optimization research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.9k and 1.4k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 3.9k works
- 2 United States 1.4k works
- 3 India 623 works
- 4 Germany 380 works
- 5 United Kingdom 330 works
- 6 Indonesia 303 works
- 7 Japan 289 works
- 8 Italy 282 works
- 9 Canada 276 works
- 10 France 247 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 Transportation Planning and Optimization research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Beijing Jiaotong University publishes the most Transportation Planning and Optimization research, followed by Tongji University and Southeast University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 307 works
- 2 Tongji UniversityChina 163 works
- 3 Southeast UniversityChina 132 works
- 4 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 126 works
- 5 Chang'an UniversityChina 103 works
- 6 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong 74 works
- 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 73 works
- 8 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 69 works
- 9 Central South UniversityChina 68 works
- 10 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 63 works
Who are the leading researchers in Transportation Planning and Optimization?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Transportation Planning and Optimization include Dusit Niyato, Fei–Yue Wang and Renaud Lambiotte.
- 1 Dusit Niyato Singapore 4.5k citations
- 2 Fei–Yue Wang China 4.2k citations
- 3 Renaud Lambiotte Belgium 4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Transportation Planning and Optimization research done?
The largest centres of Transportation Planning and Optimization research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Champs-sur-Marne and Delft.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Champs-sur-MarneFR · 36.6 works13×
- DelftNL · 74.7 works8.3×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transportation Planning and Optimization than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Transportation Planning and Optimization?
Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics 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.
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 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 68.3 | 46.9% | 7.4× | 74 | +6.6% |
| 2 | Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsHungary | 62.8 | 24.7% | 13.4× | 35 | +175.0% |
| 3 | Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina | 62.2 | 24.0% | 43.2× | 307 | -8.7% |
| 4 | Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands | 62.2 | 33.8% | 8.9× | 69 | +20.1% |
| 5 | Southeast UniversityChina | 60.6 | 30.4% | 8.5× | 132 | +29.4% |
| 6 | Southeast UniversityBangladesh | 60.6 | 8.9% | 17.9× | 22 | +202.1% |
| 7 | Tongji UniversityChina | 60.5 | 26.8% | 11.0× | 163 | -17.6% |
| 8 | Technical University of MunichGermany | 57.5 | 31.0% | 4.9× | 44 | +301.7% |
| 9 | Imam Khomeini International UniversityIran | 57.1 | 24.8% | 14.4× | 10 | +413.9% |
| 10 | Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong | 56.6 | 38.7% | 6.5× | 29 | +13.3% |
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 Planning and Optimization research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 34% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Transportation Planning and Optimization.
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.