Reasons, Challenges and Some Tools for Doing Reproducible Research in Transportation Research

TL;DR

This paper discusses the importance, benefits, and challenges of reproducible research in transportation, introduces useful tools, and provides a template source code for creating dynamic, reproducible research documents.

Contribution

It offers an overview of reproducible research in transportation and provides a practical template for researchers to produce reproducible papers.

Findings

Reproducible research enhances transparency and reliability.

Tools can facilitate the adoption of reproducible practices.

A template source code supports dynamic, reproducible documentation.

Abstract

This paper introduces reproducible research, and explains its importance, benefits and challenges. Some important tools for conducting reproducible research in Transportation Research are also introduced. Moreover, the source code for generating this paper has been designed in a way so that it can be used as a template for researchers to write their future journal papers as dynamic and reproducible documents.