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Transportation Systems and Logistics

Transportation Systems and Logistics is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 7.1k research works in it since 1954. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and improvement of traffic safety systems and infrastructure, including intelligent transportation systems, road infrastructure, vehicle diagnostics, traffic management, and the environmental impact of transportation. It addresses topics such as accident reconstruction, digital technologies in transportation, and the impact of operational factors on environmental safety.

  • Traffic Safety
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Road Infrastructure
  • Vehicle Diagnostics
  • Traffic Management
  • Environmental Impact
  • Transport Network
  • Accident Reconstruction
  • Digital Technologies
  • Urban Transport
Research works
7.1k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
707
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transportation Systems and Logistics

Which countries lead Transportation Systems and Logistics research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (1.3k and 219 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 219 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 219 works
  4. 4 United States 98 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 91 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 65 works
  7. 7 Poland 56 works
  8. 8 India 48 works
  9. 9 Slovakia 43 works
  10. 10 Czechia 40 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.

Russia: 59.3%China: 10.2%Ukraine: 10.1%United States: 4.6%6 others listed: 15.9%59%largest
Russia1,281 · 59.3%China219 · 10.2%Ukraine219 · 10.1%United States98 · 4.6%6 others listed344 · 15.9%

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

Which institutions lead Transportation Systems and Logistics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Petersburg State Transport University publishes the most Transportation Systems and Logistics research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian University of Transport.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 88 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 75 works
  3. 3 Russian University of TransportRussia 70 works
  4. 4 Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 56 works
  5. 5 Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical UniversityRussia 50 works
  6. 6 Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 39 works
  7. 7 University of ŽilinaSlovakia 27 works
  8. 8 National Transport UniversityUkraine 26 works
  9. 9 Rostov State Transport UniversityRussia 25 works
  10. 10 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 23 works

What are the most cited papers in Transportation Systems and Logistics?

The most cited paper in Transportation Systems and Logistics is "Attention Based Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Traffic Flow Forecasting" (Shengnan Guo, Youfang Lin, Ning Feng et al., 2019), with 2,973 citations. Next come "Kinetic Theory of Vehicular Traffic" (673) and "Modal share changes due to COVID-19: The case of Budapest" (522).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Attention Based Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Traffic Flow Forecasting Shengnan Guo, Youfang Lin, Ning Feng et al. · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Conference paperOpen access 17 Jul 2019 2,973
2 Kinetic Theory of Vehicular Traffic Ilya Prigogine, R. Herman, Robert Schechter · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Apr 1972 673
3 Modal share changes due to COVID-19: The case of Budapest Péter Bucsky · Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives Open access 12 Jun 2020 522
4 A Fuzzy Logic Controller for a Trafc Junction Costas P. Pappis, Ebrahim H. Mamdani · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics 1977 449
5 Optimal vehicle trajectory planning in the context of cooperative merging on highways Ioannis A. Ntousakis, Ioannis K. Nikolos, Markos Papageorgiou · Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies 3 Sep 2016 328
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Transportation Systems and Logistics research done?

The largest centres of Transportation Systems and Logistics research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Voronezh (Russia) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Angarsk, Žilina and Voronezh.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 378 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 181 works
  3. 3 VoronezhRussia 72 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 71 works
  5. 5 TashkentUzbekistan 59 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 56 works
  7. 7 Rostov-on-DonRussia 56 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 53 works
  9. 9 YekaterinburgRussia 40 works
  10. 10 NovosibirskRussia 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AngarskRU · 22.5 works260×
  2. ŽilinaSK · 27.1 works92×
  3. VoronezhRU · 71.6 works78×
  4. OmskRU · 25.2 works57×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transportation Systems and Logistics than the world average.

See Transportation Systems and Logistics on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, Tashkent State Transport University, Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics and University of Žilina 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 14.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Moscow Technical Uni…Tashkent State Trans…University of ŽilinaPetersburg State Tra…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 78.932.2%288.7×39 +224.1%
2Moscow Technical University of Communication and InformaticsRussia 59.839.4%93.7×9 +7.9%
3University of ŽilinaSlovakia 56.821.3%105.0×27 -50.2%
4Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 56.63.1%595.1×88 +156.5%
5Russian University of TransportRussia 54.24.2%491.6×70 +16.4%
6Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 48.81.9%220.1×56 +229.8%
7Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical UniversityRussia 48.411.0%712.0×50 -47.8%
8Moscow Polytechnic UniversityRussia 46.915.4%146.9×20 +120.2%
9Weatherford CollegeUnited States 42.89.3%7.7×23 +93.4%
10Academy of the State Fire Service EMERCOM of RussiaRussia 41.58.9%163.4×11 +109.4%

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 Logistics, country by country

Is Transportation Systems and Logistics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Logistics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0098% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Transportation Systems and Logistics0.0082% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Transportation Systems and Logistics 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 Logistics10.3% in 202520102020

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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