European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research

Aims & Scope

The European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (EJTIR) is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal. We expect authors to explicitly discuss potential lessons relevant to Europe or other western countries. Because EJTIR aims to be relevant for practice, we favor multi-disciplinary papers that study topics from different angles. Transport and infrastructure can be studied from a wide range of perspectives. EJTIR takes a special interest in the behavioral, organizational, economic, and/or public policy dimensions of the planning and operations of transport systems . We consider all modes of transport for passenger and freight transport. Examples of topics that fall inside the scope of EJTIR are impact assessments of exogenous developments, disruptions, and interventions affecting the transport system, as well as design and decision support methods for those interventions. Examples of interventions in which we are interested are infrastructure improvements, spatial planning related interventions, the introduction and deployment of new modes, technologies and services, maintenance and asset management, crowd management, information services, mobility and traffic management, and pricing policies. Impact assessments can for example focus on behavioral changes, such as changes in activities and tours, location choice and land use, non-travelling, destination choice, vehicle ownership, mode choice, vehicle type choice and departure time choice, impacts on multi-modal flows, and on broader impacts such as economic impacts, and impacts on accessibility, livability, sustainability, health, safety, equity, and resilience. Examples of papers that fall outside the scope of EJTIR are papers that discuss structural components of infrastructure or pavement without addressing their impact on the transport system's performance, as well as those focusing on individual links, nodes, or elements of a transport system (e.g., a single intersection, luggage belt, elements of supply chains, internal company logistics) without considering system-level implications or implications on policy-making processes. Additionally, highly theoretical, or technical topics, such as technical requirements for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, supply chain optimization, vehicle routing problems, or machine learning techniques for traffic predictions, fall outside the scope of EJTIR. We are a scholarly journal. This implies that we will only consider papers that explicitly contribute to relevant academic literature. We are interested in new theories, models, and other methods, as well as novel empirical work. We are also interested in new insights obtained using state-of-the-art theories and methods. We expect every paper submitted to EJTIR to contain a review of past work on the paper’s topic, either in the introduction, or in a separate section, which is used to explicitly identify an academic knowledge gap. In addition, we expect submitted papers to clearly mention in the introduction the intended contribution. We do not only want to contribute to the academic debate on transport and infrastructure, we also want to contribute to practice. We are primarily interested in publishing research that makes a real difference in addressing the immense and growing challenges of today’s transport systems. This means that EJTIR encourages submission of scholarly papers that explicitly aim to support decision-making and policy-making in the field of transport and infrastructure. In addition, current transport problems often require that they are viewed from different perspectives. Therefore, EJTIR strongly supports special issues. Our ambition is to publish two special issues each year. We strongly encourage prospective guest editors to contact us with their ideas.

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