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

Editorial board

Editors-in-Chief:

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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  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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