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Transportation Systems and Infrastructure

Transportation Systems and Infrastructure is a research topic within Management of Technology and Innovation. Science Explorer counts 2.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the strategic management of technological obsolescence, including forecasting, refreshment, and mitigation strategies for components, products, and software. It also addresses the challenges of obsolescence in long-life systems, financial services, and aerospace industry, emphasizing sustainability in engineering systems.

  • Obsolescence Forecasting
  • Technology Refreshment
  • Component Obsolescence
  • Product Deletion
  • System Redesign Planning
  • Financial Services Elimination
  • Software Obsolescence
  • DMSMS Management
  • Sustainability in Engineering Systems
  • Aerospace Industry Challenges
Research works
2.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
270
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transportation Systems and Infrastructure

Which countries lead Transportation Systems and Infrastructure research?

By volume, the United States and Russia publish the most (158 and 139 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 158 works
  2. 2 Russia 139 works
  3. 3 China 66 works
  4. 4 France 22 works
  5. 5 India 22 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 18 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 17 works
  8. 8 Germany 17 works
  9. 9 Brazil 14 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 13 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.

United States: 32.6%Russia: 28.7%China: 13.6%France: 4.5%6 others listed: 20.7%33%largest
United States158 · 32.6%Russia139 · 28.7%China66 · 13.6%France22 · 4.5%6 others listed101 · 20.7%

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

Which institutions lead Transportation Systems and Infrastructure research?

By volume in 2022-now, Weatherford College publishes the most Transportation Systems and Infrastructure research, followed by Federal Penitentiary Service and Film Independent.

Who are the leading researchers in Transportation Systems and Infrastructure?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure include Carlos H. Caldas.

  1. 1 Carlos H. Caldas United Kingdom 129k 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 Systems and Infrastructure?

The most cited paper in Transportation Systems and Infrastructure is "The Federal Communications Commission" (R. H. Coase, 2013), with 783 citations. Next come "A New Procedure for Assessing Reliability of Scoring EEG Sleep Recordings" (410) and "Automated content analysis for construction safety: A natural language processing system to extract precursors and outcomes from unstructured injury reports" (335).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Federal Communications Commission R. H. Coase · The Journal of Law and Economics Nov 2013 783
2 A New Procedure for Assessing Reliability of Scoring EEG Sleep Recordings Domenic V. Cicchetti, Truett Allison · American Journal of EEG Technology Sep 1971 410
3 Automated content analysis for construction safety: A natural language processing system to extract precursors and outcomes from unstructured injury reports Antoine J.‐P. Tixier, Matthew Ryan Hallowell, Balaji Rajagopalan et al. · Automation in Construction Open access 21 Nov 2015 335
4 The United States Department of Transportation Alan S. Boyd · Proceedings of the IEEE 1967 297
5 Construction Safety Risk Mitigation Matthew Ryan Hallowell, John Gambatese · Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 25 Jun 2009 276
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Where is Transportation Systems and Infrastructure research done?

The largest centres of Transportation Systems and Infrastructure research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Weatherford (United States) and Los Angeles (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 62 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 19 works
  3. 3 WeatherfordUnited States 10 works
  4. 4 Los AngelesUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 9 works
  6. 6 Saint PetersburgRussia 9 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 7 works
  8. 8 Saint-Ouen-sur-SeineFrance 7 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 7 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MoscowRU · 61.9 works9.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transportation Systems and Infrastructure than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Transportation Systems and Infrastructure?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College 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.

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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 10.09.1%13.4×10 +533.3%

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 Systems and Infrastructure, country by country

Is Transportation Systems and Infrastructure research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Transportation Systems and Infrastructure.

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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 Systems and Infrastructure as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Transportation Systems and Infrastructure 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 Systems and Infrastructure10.4% 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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