The transportation sector stands as one of the most representative industries of each country’s economy, companies and government focusing on facilitating the flow of goods, services and people in an efficient and effective manner. In Europe, the transport sector represents approximately 5% of gross domestic product (GDP), with over ten million employees. In recent years, the domain promoted sustainable development, in order to minimize the greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on alternative transportation methods or fuels. The scope of the research is to investigate the bibliometric papers on the transportation sector, that have been extracted from the ISI Web of Science database. The research points out the main trends and developments that have been discussed by the academic community, identifying the most representative authors, journals, affiliations, countries and keywords. A review of the top five most cited papers will be performed, in order to understand the main themes and methods discussed by researchers, together with the presentation of the most representative thematic and unigrams used in abstract. The outcome of the paper stands as a starting point for a future search for policymakers, researchers or stakeholders.