This study is an analysis of the evolution of the research in Transport Engineering.More than eight thousand articles published in a period of almost 50 years were analyzed to identify metrics of scientific production, creation of new knowledge and the rise and fall of trends in the studied.To carry out the bibliometric, computational and scientometric studies presented in this paper, a specialized software was developed, which is also capable of analyzing other scientific publications.The software uses techniques of artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP) and presents the results using graphs and charts.