About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems is devoted to scholarly research on developing, planning, managing, operating, and evaluating intelligent transportation systems. Intelligent transportation systems are innovative solutions that address contemporary transportation problems. They are characterized by information exchange, connectivity, dynamic feedback, and automation, allowing people and goods to move efficiently. They encompass the full scope of information technologies used in transportation, including control, computation, and communication, as well as algorithms, databases, models, simulations, and human interfaces.
The Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems is especially interested in research on emerging technologies that lead to improved planning and operational performance of the transportation system. The journal is particularly interested in impactful research that adds to the scientific understanding of intelligent transportation systems' impacts on mobility, safety, energy consumption, and emissions. The journal is interdisciplinary and accepts work from engineering, planning, and other disciplines contributing to the scientific understanding of intelligent transportation systems. The journal is also multi-modal and accepts work on intelligent transportation for all ground transportation modes. Example topics include the role of emerging technologies in transportation, traffic flow and management, vehicle control, routing and scheduling, traveler response to technologies, planning for ITS innovations, evaluations of ITS field operational tests, connected and automated vehicles, technologies for vulnerable road users, public transportation, commercial vehicles, and tools/software for analysis of ITS, including artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.
Review Articles. The Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems will consider, in rare cases, review articles that summarize and organize recent research results in a particular area of intelligent transportation systems. A survey article should synthesize the knowledge of a topic area in a way that offers rapid access to scattered materials and adds understanding to work in the field. Meta-analysis and text-mining techniques that integrate results from different studies are encouraged. Ideally, a survey article should also develop a future perspective useful to researchers and practitioners. The authors of a survey article should have a demonstrated research record on the topic area. Authors interested in preparing a manuscript of survey articles are strongly encouraged to contact the journal editor, Prof. Asad Khattak ([email protected]), with a title, a brief abstract, contributions to the Journal of ITS, and a CV demonstrating relevant expertise.
Special Issue Proposals. The Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems will consider, in rare cases, special issue proposals. Individuals interested in proposal preparation should have already contributed substantially to the Journal of ITS. They are strongly encouraged to contact the journal editor, Prof. Asad Khattak ([email protected]), with a title, brief abstract, and CV demonstrating relevant expertise.
Note: All articles appearing in the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems undergo a rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and at least two anonymous peer reviewers providing comments.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 79K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.8 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 8.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.555 (2023) SNIP
- 1.076 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor
Asad J. Khattak
Beaman Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The University of Tennessee
John D. Tickle Engineering Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-2010
Managing Editors
Henry Liu - University of Michigan, Michigan, MI
Hong Lo - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Associate Editors
Haitham Al-Deek - University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Jeff (Xuegang) Ban - University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Mecit Cetin - Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Benjamin Coifman - Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Achille Fonzone - Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ali Haghani - University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Kaan Ozbay - Civil and Urban Engineering and Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), New York University, NY
Byungkyu (Brian) Park - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Bin Ran - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Jan-Dirk Schmöcker - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Wy Szeto - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Francesco Viti - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
C. Y. David Yang - AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Washington D.C.
Hongchao Liu - Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Jia Hu - College of Transportation Engineering, TongJi University
Daiheng Ni - University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Lina Kattan - University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Margarida Coelho - University of Aveiro, Portugal
Samer H. Hamdar - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The George Washington University
Assistant Editors
Lili Du - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Jun Liu - The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Jiaqi Ma - The University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Xianbiao (XB) Hu - Pennsylvania State University, PA
Editorial Board
Mohamed Abdel-Aty - University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Hojjat Adeli - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Husain Aziz - Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Constantinos Antoniou - Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Michael Bell - The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Rahim F. (Ray) Benekohal - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Robert Bertini - University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Keechoo Choi - Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea
Mashrur Chowdhury - Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Gonçalo Correia - TU Delft, The Netherlands
Andrea D’Ariano - Universit`a degli Studi “RomaTre”, Italy
Praveen Edara - University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
Haris Koutsopoulos - Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Michael Levin - Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota
Meng Li - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Wei Lin - University of Arizona, College of Engineering, Tucson, AZ
Xiaolei Ma - Beihang University, China
Elise Miller-Hooks - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
James Moore - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
ManWo Ng - Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Markos Papageorgiou - Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Srinivas Peeta - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Zhong-Ren Peng - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Mohammed Quddus - Imperial College London, UK
Larry Rilett - Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Andrew Tarko - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
S. Travis Waller - University of New South Wales, Australia
S. C. Wong - The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yao-Jan Wu - The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Yafeng Yin - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Guohui Zhang - University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI
André de Palma - CY Cergy Paris Université, THEMA, France
Yinhai Wang- University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Updated 16-07-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/indexed in: A Matter of Fact; Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Marketing; Computing and Technology; CSA: Technology Research Database; Current; Elsevier Engineering Information: Compendex: Geobase; Informa Ergonomic Abstracts; International Abstracts in Operations Research; ISI Current Contents/Engineering; Science Citation Index Expanded; TRID (Transportation Research Information Services & International Transport Research Documentation database); Ulrichs Periodicals Directory; Zentralblatt MATH.
Open access
Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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6 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations (2002 - current)
Formerly known as
- ITS Journal - Intelligent Transportation Systems Journal (1996 - 2001)
- I V H S Journal (1993 - 1995)
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