• Dr. Kamal Mohan Bansal
• Mrs. Seema Sodhi
• Dr. Sunita Chaki

Abstract Since its initial proposal in 1918, the idea of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has gained significant attention due to its potential to transform transportation through increased efficiency, safety, and mobility. AVs research hasn't been systematically analyzed, though. Data were gathered from 625 legitimate documents from WoS and bibliometric analysis was performed using Biblioshiny visualization program and Scopus database, from 1986-2024. The results says that there was no growth on research till 2015, but it started getting momentum in 2016 till 2022 and the reasons for lack in research were technology limitation, lack of data, high cost, regulatory and legal challenges, Public acceptance, limited govt and private funding etc. The largest country collaboration found between USA with Bangladesh and Canada. Further, the top most 5 cited countries in terms of research are UK, USA, China, Germany, Spain, Netherland. As per three-field plot China has the highest thickness, followed by Korea and USA connecting to authors belong to China (majority) and in terms of keyword Autonomous vehicle has the most thickness. The highest number of documents published in the “Journal of advanced transformation” with 125 number of documents, followed by “Transportation research Part A: policy and practice”. There are only 5 major productive journals which consist of 216 articles (35% of the all articles). The Trending topics of 2024 are “Model predictive control” and “Artificial intelligence technologies”. The highest co-occurred (occurring simultaneously in different papers) terms in Network and Overlay mode is “Autonomous vehicle” is making a network with its own Group and other groups as well. The historical development, and trends in AVs research are revealed in this study, which helps researchers gain a thorough grasp of the topic and provide a more objective and scientific foundation for future quantitative research.

Keywords-Autonomous vehicles; Bibliometric analysis; Biblioshiny; R-Square; Quantitative research.

"''A Biblioshiny Analysis of Research Trend and Innovations inAutonomous Vehicle Technology''", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 4, page no.q484-q499, April-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2404H59.pdf

"''A Biblioshiny Analysis of Research Trend and Innovations inAutonomous Vehicle Technology''", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 4, page no. ppq484-q499, April-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2404H59.pdf