TY - JOUR PY - 2024// TI - How COVID-19 transformed the landscape of transportation research: an integrative scoping review and roadmap for future research JO - Transportation letters A1 - Haghani, Milad A1 - Merkert, Rico A1 - Behnood, Ali A1 - De Gruyter, Chris A1 - Kazemzadeh, Khashayar A1 - Ghaderi, Hadi A1 - Shahhoseini, Zahra A1 - Thai, Vinh A1 - Irannezhad, Elnaz A1 - Fahimnia, Behnam A1 - Waller, S. Travis A1 - Hensher, David A. SP - 43 EP - 88 VL - 16 IS - 1 N2 - In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars mobilized their efforts to address its far-reaching societal problems. With mobility restrictions being front and center of the pandemic, a new cohort of transportation science was developed within a short period of time. Here, we examine more than 400 studies related to COVID-19 published across transportation journals during 2020 and 2021. The aim is (i) to scope this newly developed segment of transportation research, (ii) outline the diversity of pandemic-related issues across various divisions of the transportation field and (iii) provide a roadmap for the future of this line of research. Common themes are identified and existing congruence and discrepancies across findings are discussed.

RESULTS show that although conventional methods of transportation research were adopted in virtually all COVID-19 studies, no pre-pandemic study was particularly instrumental in the development of this segment of transportation literature. The COVID-19 segment appears to have developed its own independent knowledge foundation, in that, it does not systemically and frequently look back at any particular pre-pandemic reference. Potential impacts of this newly developed segment on the metrics of transportation journals are quantified and discussed.

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LA - en SN - 1942-7867 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2022.2160294 ID - ref1 ER -