Reviewing the pros and cons of the literature review

Important they might be, but literature reviews aren’t perfect – we should all be aware of their potential flaws

Reviews of research literature play an important role in transport studies, being obligatory in any PhD thesis and very often being required as an early phase of the commissioned projects that represent core funding for academic departments and the more thoughtful consultancies. The reasons are so obvious that they are rarely stated: how can one possibly hope to add to understanding and knowledge of a practical or theoretical problem without being familiar with the results of earlier work?...

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