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Transportation Systems and Safety

Transportation Systems and Safety is a research topic within Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design. Science Explorer counts 5.9k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers addresses challenges in computer-aided design for technical systems, focusing on topics such as artificial neural networks, reliability assessment, electromagnetic interference, transport systems, maintenance, intelligent systems, information quality, speech recognition, railway control, and energy efficiency.

  • Artificial Neural Network
  • Reliability Assessment
  • Electromagnetic Interference
  • Transport Systems
  • Maintenance
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Information Quality
  • Speech Recognition
  • Railway Control
  • Energy Efficiency
Research works
5.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
583
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Transportation Systems and Safety research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (191 and 87 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 191 works
  2. 2 Russia 87 works
  3. 3 China 59 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 39 works
  5. 5 United States 27 works
  6. 6 Czechia 27 works
  7. 7 Slovakia 26 works
  8. 8 Germany 24 works
  9. 9 Bulgaria 20 works
  10. 10 Romania 19 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.

Poland: 36.9%Russia: 16.9%China: 11.4%Ukraine: 7.5%6 others listed: 27.4%37%largest
Poland191 · 36.9%Russia87 · 16.9%China59 · 11.4%Ukraine39 · 7.5%6 others listed142 · 27.4%

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

Which institutions lead Transportation Systems and Safety research?

By volume in 2022-now, Warsaw University of Technology publishes the most Transportation Systems and Safety research, followed by University of Žilina and Military University of Technology in Warsaw.

Who are the leading researchers in Transportation Systems and Safety?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transportation Systems and Safety include A. Olszewski.

  1. 1 A. Olszewski United States 121k 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 Safety?

The most cited paper in Transportation Systems and Safety is "Sums of independent random variables" (T. W. Körner, 1988), with 1,806 citations. Next come "Electromagnetic interference shielding using continuous carbon-fiber carbon-matrix and polymer-matrix composites" (404) and "Nickel filament polymer-matrix composites with low surface impedance and high electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness" (245).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sums of independent random variables T. W. Körner · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 28 Jan 1988 1,806
2 Electromagnetic interference shielding using continuous carbon-fiber carbon-matrix and polymer-matrix composites Xiangcheng Luo, Deborah D. L. Chung · Composites Part B Engineering Apr 1999 404
3 Nickel filament polymer-matrix composites with low surface impedance and high electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness Xiaoping Shui, Deborah D. L. Chung · Journal of Electronic Materials Aug 1997 245
4 Scheduling preventive railway maintenance activities Gabriella Budai, Dennis Huisman, Rommert Dekker · Journal of the Operational Research Society 14 Nov 2005 241
5 A Comparative Study of EMI Shielding Properties of Carbon Nanofiber and Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Filled Polymer Composites Yonglai Yang, Mool C. Gupta, Kenneth L. Dudley et al. · Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 17 May 2005 220
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Transportation Systems and Safety research done?

The largest centres of Transportation Systems and Safety research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China) and Poznań (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Warsaw.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 59 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 28 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 23 works
  4. 4 PoznańPoland 16 works
  5. 5 ŽilinaSlovakia 14 works
  6. 6 KrakowPoland 13 works
  7. 7 TashkentUzbekistan 13 works
  8. 8 SofiaBulgaria 12 works
  9. 9 BudapestHungary 12 works
  10. 10 GliwicePoland 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WarsawPL · 59.3 works28×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Warsaw University of Technology, University of Žilina and Military University of Technology in Warsaw 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 13.9889%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Warsaw University of…Silesian University …University of ŽilinaMilitary 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
1Warsaw University of TechnologyPoland 77.729.8%89.8×14 -68.3%
2University of ŽilinaSlovakia 75.418.5%201.4×14 -62.3%
3Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 53.918.5%240.3×14 -65.5%
4Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 46.420.2%68.9×10 -67.2%
5Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 31.411.7%254.9×10 +270.5%
6Russian University of TransportRussia 26.74.3%281.8×11 +147.5%
7Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 25.44.8%24.2×9 +44.0%
8Poznań University of TechnologyPoland 23.812.4%108.0×10 -68.3%
9Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 14.95.7%202.3×8 +412.1%

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 Safety, country by country

Is Transportation Systems and Safety research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Safety as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0034% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Transportation Systems and Safety0.0027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Transportation Systems and Safety 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 Safety10.5% 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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