Environmental monitoring of the transportation sector in meta-analytic study

Abstract

Environmental monitoring is the process of collecting, monitoring and analyzing data related to physical and biological environment in order to understand environmental conditions, identify problems that may occur and take action to protect and improve the environment. Environmental monitoring in transportation sector is directed at understanding its contribution to air pollution, noise pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, habitat destruction, and other impacts on environment. The purpose of this study is to identify derivative concepts in environmental monitoring for encouraging the development of green technology through analysis of scientific publications. Meta-analysis applied through bibliometric analysis to the concept of environmental monitoring in transportation sector is expected to produce novel findings. Analytic hierarchy process is carried out as follow-up analysis in determining choices and priorities on topic findings that have novelty. Data collection was obtained in the form of scientific journals published for 2018-2022 sourced from Google Scholar through a search with the concept of environmental monitoring in transportation sector. The results of study found that several derivative topics in the concept of environmental monitoring in transportation sector have novelties including atmospheric transport, gas sensing, carbon footprint, tritium transport, vertical transport, smart grid and intelligent transportation system. While priority topics that are expected to be followed up in the development of knowledge and technology in the future include carbon footprint, gas sensing and intelligent transportation systems.