Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis
Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the simulation, analysis, and optimization of road safety barriers, including guardrail systems and concrete barriers. It covers topics such as crash tests, finite element simulation, safety performance evaluation, vehicle impact analysis, and the use of wireless sensor networks for traffic safety monitoring.
- Crash Tests
- Finite Element Simulation
- Guardrail Systems
- Vehicle Impact
- Safety Performance
- Barrier Design
- Dynamic Loading
- Roadside Hardware
- Collision Analysis
- Wireless Sensor Network
- Research works
- 11k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 1.2k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -7% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (590 and 253 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 590 works
- 2 United States 253 works
- 3 India 141 works
- 4 Poland 67 works
- 5 Japan 54 works
- 6 Türkiye 45 works
- 7 Italy 42 works
- 8 United Kingdom 40 works
- 9 South Korea 39 works
- 10 Germany 36 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 Safety and Impact Analysis research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Tongji University publishes the most Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research, followed by Nanjing University of Science and Technology and Central South University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Tongji University China 21 works
- 2 Nanjing University of Science and Technology China 18 works
- 3 Central South University China 17 works
- 4 China Automotive Technology and Research Center China 14 works
- 5 Southwest Jiaotong University China 13 works
- 6 University of Nebraska–Lincoln United States 12 works
- 7 Southeast University China 10 works
- 8 Harbin Institute of Technology China 10 works
- 9 Beijing Institute of Technology China 10 works
- 10 Northwestern Polytechnical University China 9 works
Who are the leading researchers in Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis include Tuan Ngo and Hong Hao.
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research done?
The largest centres of Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Changsha, Chongqing and Tianjin.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- ChangshaCN · 38.6 works4.5×
- ChongqingCN · 28.0 works3.8×
- TianjinCN · 29.7 works3.7×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis?
Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, Tongji University and Southwest 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 | Central South University China | 76.9 | 24.1% | 6.0× | 17 | +35.6% |
| 2 | Tongji University China | 73.7 | 11.4% | 9.7× | 22 | -5.7% |
| 3 | Southwest Jiaotong University China | 62.3 | 16.5% | 9.7× | 13 | -33.3% |
| 4 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln United States | 57.0 | 7.0% | 24.5× | 12 | -15.3% |
| 5 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology China | 54.5 | 7.3% | 12.5× | 18 | -51.4% |
| 6 | Hunan University China | 47.0 | 18.6% | 7.2× | 9 | -50.7% |
| 7 | Beijing Institute of Technology China | 44.5 | 18.1% | 4.8× | 10 | -6.3% |
| 8 | Northwestern Polytechnical University China | 43.8 | 23.2% | 4.5× | 9 | -34.9% |
| 9 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology India | 40.7 | 6.2% | 38.0× | 8 | — |
| 10 | Southeast University China | 36.8 | 14.9% | 4.3× | 10 | -44.6% |
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 Safety and Impact Analysis research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 7% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Transportation Safety and Impact Analysis.
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.