A patent landscape of sustainable mobility innovations in land transportation

IF 2.2 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

World Patent Information Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI:10.1016/j.wpi.2024.102299

Jyoti Prajapati, Arijit Paul, Rupert J. Baumgartner

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Abstract

Technological innovation can play a major role in developing a sustainable mobility system. To generate a state-of-the-art of sustainable mobility innovations, and understand its future trajectory we use the systemic perspective of the sustainable mobility paradigm Avoid-Shift-Improve to present a patent landscape of the entire land-transportation system. The descriptive part of our study covers 425,885 granted patent families between 1970 and 2016 across 75 patent jurisdictions. In the predictive part, we use this dataset to forecast sustainable mobility innovations till 2030. We identify the USA, and China are the leading knowledge importers in sustainable mobility innovations, whereas Japan and Germany are the leading knowledge exporters. Overall, our analysis suggests that there is a visible shift in sustainable mobility innovation towards a low emission mobility future that is more connected and electric than before. However, the combined effects of continued growth in innovation for efficiency gain in GHG emitting mobility technologies, a high level of uncertainty in future innovation trajectory in vehicle charging and hydrogen technology, and a low level of innovation activities in mass and non-motorized transportation technologies can imperil a faster transition to a zero-emission future of mobility.

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陆地交通领域可持续交通创新的专利概况

技术创新可在发展可持续交通系统中发挥重要作用。为了了解可持续交通创新的最新情况，并了解其未来发展轨迹，我们从可持续交通范式 "避免-转变-改进 "的系统角度出发，展示了整个陆地交通系统的专利状况。我们研究的描述性部分涵盖了1970年至2016年间75个专利管辖区的425,885项授权专利族。在预测部分，我们利用该数据集预测了到 2030 年的可持续交通创新。我们发现，美国和中国是可持续交通创新的主要知识进口国，而日本和德国则是主要的知识出口国。总体而言，我们的分析表明，可持续交通创新正朝着低排放交通的方向发生明显转变，未来的交通将比以前更加互联互通，更加电动化。然而，温室气体排放交通技术创新持续增长以提高效率，汽车充电和氢技术未来创新轨迹的高度不确定性，以及大众和非机动交通技术创新活动的低水平，这些因素的综合影响可能会危及向零排放未来交通的更快过渡。

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