Public transport and sustainability: an analysis of publications in the light of bibliometry

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Tálita Floriano
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Silva, Marcelino Aurélio Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Produção Online
• Texto Completo: https://www.producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/3068
• topic: Public Transport. Sustainability. Bibliometrics. Space Indicators. Sustainable Transport.; Transporte Público. Sustentabilidade. Bibliometria. Indicadores Espaciais. Transporte Sustentável

The relationship between public transport and sustainability has been highlighted in scientific research. Thus, the purpose of this article is to use the approaches of bibliometrics and social networks to analyze the publications related to these subjects. For bibliometrics, we used productivity criteria of journals, authors and citations of publications from the bases Science Direct, Scopus and Web of Science. A total of 48 articles were selected, highlighting those that dealt with the characterization of travel patterns and modal choice, techniques for public transport improvements, environmental and social sustainability, with the majority (81%) being of practical application. The analysis of social network, made by CiteSpace, approached 245 references, using the metrics of modularity, silhouette and centrality, for cited authors, countries and keywords. The countries with the largest centralities are the United States, China and Australia, but England and the United States contain the most active research areas. For key words, the major centralities were "sustainable development", "built environment" and "travel behavior". The authors with the greatest centralities were Cervero R. and Banister D., showing convergence with what was found in bibliometrics. Finally, the study showed that bibliometric and social network analysis are complementary and convergent, both indicating trends in the literature on environmental and social sustainability.