A bibliographic analysis of the development of agent technology in traffic control and management systems

The application of agent technology in traffic and transportation systems lasts nearly two decades. As one effective tool to handle the complex and dynamic characteristic of transportation, the development of agent technology in traffic control and management systems is investigated based on one bibliographic analysis of 64 papers from different journals and transactions. In this paper, the bibliographic analysis for the productivity in five levels is given, which are country level, sub-domain level, publication level, cooperation level and institution level. The statistical results reflect the status of worldwide development in this domain. Meanwhile, the reasons of high productivity are explored to guide a sound development in the future. Through this paper, we can acquire the status of research in this domain and speculate the future research directions.