The Qinghai Tibet Plateau (QTP) is an important ecological security barrier region and strategic resource reserve base in China. It is of great significance to explore the construction and impact of its transportation facilities. Through combing the relevant research, we found that:
With the construction of macro regional policies and major transportation facilities, the relevant research has been growing rapidly since 2000, and the contribution of Chinese Academy of Sciences, transportation universities and research institutions is outstanding;
The key research of QTP's transportation facilities construction includes the constraints and countermeasures of permafrost melting, sandstorm, erosion and geological disasters, the development process of modern comprehensive transportation system and its spatial characteristics, and the evolution of multi-scale regional traffic connection and accessibility;
The regional impact assessment of traffic facilities mainly focuses on ecological environment and social economy. The former results are mainly negative effects such as disturbing ecosystem, cutting landscape pattern, destroying vegetation cover and disturbing the normal living habits of wild animals, while the latter ones are mainly positive effects like promoting macro regional development, changing the spatial structure of regional development, and driving the development of tourism and other related industries. In general, the positive and negative effects of multi-dimensional and multi-scale show the characteristics of differentiation and multiple feedbacks. With the implementation of the Second Comprehensive Scientific Investigation on the QTP and the construction of Third Pole National Park Group, Sichuan-Tibet Railway and Qinghai-Tibet Expressway, we should further focus on the breakthroughs in key relevant technologies, the balance of transportation system with national strategies and regional functions, the combination of travel perception and comprehensive traffic accessibility, combing the comprehensive impact mechanism from the perspective of coupling and the construction of analysis framework that is in line with regional reality, etc.