Annex
For the purpose of the analysis, the chapter distinguished MTIs in the following categories and subcategories:
- Road
- Railways
- Containers
- Conveying
- Maritime
- Control
These were applied to the WIPO Mining Database based on the International Patent Classification (IPC) or Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) in the patent documents. For a detailed description of the subcategories, please refer to Reference Daly, Valacchi and RaffoDaly et al. 2019.