A Journal Is Born

Professor Kostas Goulias has teamed up with Professor Kouros Mohammadian of the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago to create a new journal in the field of Transportation Research. Kostas hopes that this collaboration of Engineering Science and Geography and Transportation Research will encourage, enrich, and further enable all those involved in the associated fields.

To quote its web site, Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research is a quarterly journal that publishes high-quality review and mini-review papers as well as major contributions to 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 in transportation. The journal will be available in both print and electronic versions. It is intended to provide a rapid turn-around time that will result in the publication of high quality research ideas and results with immediacy and profound impacts on transportation and related fields. Of particular interest are review resource papers that merge descriptions of the state of the art with presentations of innovative and new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual insights across areas of research in transportation spanning the entire domain of this field. The main topics and subject areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, state-of-the-art research in transportation policy analysis and planning, system design, operations, management, maintenance and rehabilitation, as well as modeling and simulation, choice and other decision making models, behavioral and attitudinal analysis, and human factors and cognition” (http://www.transportationletters.com).

The journal Editors-in-Chief are Kostas Goulias (above), University of California, Santa Barbara; and Kouros Mohammadian (right), University of Illinois, Chicago. The Editorial Board includes Joao Abreu, Ray Benekohal, Chandra Bhat, Lily Elefteriadou, Domenico Gattuso, Anne Goodchild, Pavlos Kanaroglou, Matthew Karlaftis, Boris Kerner, Ryuichi Kitamura, Samer Madanat, Hani Mahmassani, Pat Mokhtarian, Kazuo Nishii, Mirko Novak, Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Ram Pendyala, John Polak, Amalia Polydoropoulou, Hesham Rakha, Yoram Shiftan, Peter Stopher, Evelyn Thomchick, Harry Timmermans, Pravin Varaiya, Paul Waddell, Travis Waller, and Geert Wets. The publisher is J. Ross Publishing.

Papers are invited for the inaugural issues for 2008. Authors interested in submitting papers for the inaugural issues are asked to send a short email to editors-in-chief as soon as possible notifying them of their intent to submit a full paper. Papers should be prepared in accordance with the manuscript guidelines for authors available at: http://www.transportationletters.com/authors.html. For further information on the Journal, contact: Tim Pletscher, Senior Acquisitions Editor, J. Ross Publishing (tpletscher@jrosspub.com) or Journal Editors-in-Chief (goulias@geog.ucsb.edu or kouros@uic.edu).