Bibliometric review of studies related to automated vehicles in indexed journals from the Web of Science and Scopus databases

The emergence of new technologies in transport such as Automated Vehicles (AV) has generated a series of studies about their effects on the society. Therefore, this article presents a literature review on AV from the publications of the Web of Science and Scopus databases. A bibliometric analysis was applied, considering the co-occurrence of keywords, bibliographic coupling, co-citation and co-authorship. In general, the results show that two major areas stand out in the research, they are: the technological component related to the development and improvement of AV and the social component related to behavioral aspects of AV acceptability.