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.
