Information regarding literature surveys

• How to find papers:
  
  • DO NOT USE google
  • IEEE Xplore: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org
  • Elsevier Science Direct: http://www.sciencedirect.com
  • Other resources are offered by the database search page at TUD library:
    http://www.library.tudelft.nl/en/collections/databases/
    These resources requires a TUD IP address (so access them from your desk, the TUD network, or through VPN).
    Within OvidSP select the following databases (if necessary, use 2 separate searches in case the number of resources selected is reported as being too large):
    • Inspec
    • Current Contents/All Editions
    • Transport Database
  • Last resort: Google scholar: http://scholar.google.com
  
  
  
• Selecting the type of papers:
  The quality of the sources is of paramount importance. In principle, the amount of review a paper has undergone is a measure for this quality.
  So from highest quality to lower quality, consult
  
  
  • Journal papers (in decreasing order of quality):

    IEEE journals
    Automatica
    Transportation Science
    Transportation Research Part A,B,C,D,E
    ...
    Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications
    European Journal of Control
    International Journal of Control
    IET Intelligent Transport Systems
    ...
    European Journal of Transportation and Infrastructure Research
    ...
    Transportation Research Record

  • Books (Springer, Elsevier, Cambridge, Princeton, ...)
    
    
  • Conference papers (in decreasing order of quality):

    IEEE Conference of Decision and Control
    Internat. Symp. on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT)
    IEEE conferences
    ...
    European Conference on Control
    IFAC conferences
    ...
    Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
    TRAIL PhD Congress

  • PhD theses
    
    
  • [ Technical reports ]
    Only select/read these to get informed about most recent work by top researchers in the field.