About this journal
Aims and scope
Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research is a quarterly journal that publishes high-quality peer-reviewed and mini-review papers as well as technical notes and book reviews on the state-of-the-art in transportation research.
The focus of Transportation Letters is on analytical and empirical findings, methodological papers, and theoretical and conceptual insights across all areas of research. Review resource papers that merge descriptions of the state-of-the-art with innovative and new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual insights spanning all areas of transportation research are invited and of particular interest.
Keys areas of interest include:
- Traffic engineering
- Travel Behavior
- Modeling & simulation
- Freight & logistics
Journal metrics
Usage
- 89K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 6.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.346 (2023) SNIP
- 0.853 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 7 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 101 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 14% acceptance rate
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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
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
Editors-in-Chief:
- Dr Konstadinos Goulias (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA): [email protected]
- Dr Abolfazl Mohammadian (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA): [email protected]
Managing Editor:
- Taha Rashidi (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Associate Editors:
- Constantinos Antoniou (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Shriniwas S. Arkatkar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India)
- Eric Donnell (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Chiara Calastri (University of Leeds)
- Bo Zou (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)
- Chi Xie (Tongji University, China)
- Soora Rasouli (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
- David Rey (SKEMA Business School, Université Côte d'Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France)
- Lina Kattan (University of Calgary, Canada)
- Naveen Eluru (University of Central Florida)
- Shuaian Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
- Monique Stinson ( Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, USA)
- Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
- Alexandra Kondyli (University of Kansas, USA)
- Eleni I. Vlahogianni (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Editorial Board:
- Jobair B. Alam (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia)
- Reza Aminghafouri (The University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Gowri Asaithambi (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)
- Hilel Bar-Gera (Ben-Gurion University of the Negrev, Israel)
- Emmanouil Barmpounakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
- Marco Bassani (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- Eran Ben-Elia (BenGurion University of Negev, Israel)
- Chandra Bhat (University of Texas, USA)
- Xinyu (Jason) Cao (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Juan-Antonio Carasco (University of Conception, Chile)
- Ruimin Li (Tsinghua University, China)
- Justin S. Chang (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Elisabetta Cherchi (University of Newcastle, UK)
- Mallikarjuna Chunchu (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
- Domokos Esztergár-Kiss (Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary)
- Dick Ettema (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- Venu Garikapati (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
- Jiaoe Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Jack Haddad (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
- Ahmed Hammad (University of New South Wales, Australia)
- Habib Khandker (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Alexandra Kondyli (University of Kansas, USA)
- Rico Krüger (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
- Jae Hyun Lee (Kyunkpook National University, South Korea)
- Hani Mahmassani (Northwestern University, USA)
- Eric Miller (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Patricia L Mokhtarian (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- Marcela Munizaga (University of Chile, Chile)
- Juan de Dios Ortuzar (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
- Ram Pendyala (Arizona State University, USA)
- Ondrej Pribyl (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
- Mohsen Ramezani (The University of Sydney, Australia)
- Srinath Ravulaparthy (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
- Meead Saberi (University of New South Wales, Australia)
- Ravi Shankar (National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India)
- Harry Timmermans (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- Adam Weiss (Cartlon University, Canada)
- Mehmet Yildirimoglu (The University of Queensland, Australia)
- Shaopeng Zhong (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Abstracting and indexing
Transportation Letters is included in the following services:
- Compendex
- Current Contents - Engineering, Computing and Technology
- Current Contents - Engineering, Technology and Applications
- Current Contents - Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Transportation Science and Technology Citation Index
Open access
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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