Transportation Engineering

This bibliometric analysis explores the link between transport infrastructure and regional development, revealing key research trends, collaborative networks, and thematic clusters. Using citation, co-authorship, and co-occurrence analyses, it highlights the field’s multidimensional nature and dominant methodologies, offering insights for researchers and policymakers while addressing existing literature gaps.

This paper examines road design and safety challenges in the MENA region, shaped by diverse geography, rapid urbanization, and extreme climate. Despite major infrastructure investments, road safety remains a concern due to design flaws and behavioral issues. It highlights smart systems, governance, and best practices to improve future outcomes.

Advocates shifting transportation planning from technical solutions to community-centered, equitable approaches. It emphasizes engagement with diverse voices, includes case studies and reflections, and addresses challenges of integrating local planning within broader top-down U.S. systems, urging professionals to rethink traditional methods.

Focuses on multi-agent modeling to simulate how firms’ strategies, knowledge sharing, and government policies affect the diffusion of high-performance construction materials in transportation engineering, revealing key impacts on technology adoption efficiency and offering guidance to promote sustainable, green development in the industry.

This review discusses enhancing microbial production of plant natural products (PNPs) by improving transmembrane transport to reduce host metabolic burden. It covers transporter discovery, engineering, and auxiliary strategies, offering insights into optimizing PNP transport for efficient microbial cell factories in medicine, agriculture, and flavor industries.

The document explores the increasing prevalence of symmetrical structures in civil transportation engineering, emphasizing the importance of research into stability, vulnerability, and durability related to these structures. The Special Issue focuses on load symmetry and structural symmetry, showcasing research on topics such as vibration responses induced by traffic loads, mechanical characteristics of support structures under asymmetric loads, and seismic performance evaluation of tunnels. By leveraging symmetry, engineering design can be optimized, structural stability enhanced, and the development of engineering construction advanced. The document provides valuable insights and directions for further exploration in the field of civil transportation engineering.