Development Status, Main Issues, and Policy Suggestions for Transportation Science Popularization Bases

Science popularization bases are crucial venues for conducting science popularization activities, serving as public platforms for providing scientific education services, and constituting an essential component of science and technology popularization work, with distinct characteristics of public welfare. This article, based on extensive and in-depth research on transportation science popularization bases, comprehensively analyzes the current development status and main existing issues in aspects such as regional distribution, base types, supporting units, accreditation institutions, resource conditions, and science popularization activities of industry science popularization bases. It puts forward policy recommendations for the development of transportation science popularization bases from six perspectives: strengthening the mission of science popularization development, optimizing the macro-layout of science popularization bases, promoting innovative development of science popularization bases, enhancing the development of science popularization resources, strengthening the construction of science popularization talent teams, and optimizing the accreditation of national transportation science popularization bases.