Investigating the Thematic Course of Smart Transportation Studies

The subject of the present research is to examine the studies of smart transportation at the national level. The problem that caused the study to be carried out first was the need for more recognition of prolific and under-worked topics or without research, and then preventing research Repetitions and introducing issues that have yet to be addressed. For this purpose, a scientific atlas has been presented in order to show active provinces in this field. This research methodology is of the applied scientometric type and was carried out by the content analysis method. All bibliographic information indexed in SID, Elmnet, Noormags, Cilivica, Magiran, and Google scholar has been collected and studied from the subject and geographical dimension. Articles were collected using keywords, which left 391 articles after eliminating duplicates. After the review, it was found that transportation and traffic management are the most prolific, and national security is the most minor studied topic of smart transportation. In the collected articles, the components of the field of smart transportation include travel information and routing, transport and traffic management, vehicle, and goods transportation, public transportation, emergency conditions, economy and cost, transportation safety, climate and environment, non-active defense, and national security. The geographical atlas showed that each province had conducted research in the field of which of the components and which were the overworked and underworked provinces in each of the components. According to this study's results, the transportation management and traffic component has been the most productive component of the 11 components of smart transportation in the country.