STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish a new open access journal European Transport Research Review (ETRR), starting January 2009. The journal is the official journal of the non-profit association European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI).
In partnership with Springer, ECTRI will publish this new journal to disseminate research results in the field of transport and make them more visible in the scientific and professional community. The journal will focus on issues of special interest to European transport research, its funding bodies and supervising organisations.
The quarterly journal will publish peer-reviewed research papers in English, on both theoretical as well as applied research, whose excellence and content represent an important contribution to transport research in Europe. It will cover a broad range of topics such as freight transport and logistics, mobility and transport behavior, safety and security, transport and economics, environment, infrastructure, planning, policy, transport system management and vehicle technology. All articles will be published free of charge for authors and readers and will be available on the online platform www.springerlink.com.
Though the journal is primarily aimed at the scientific community of transport research, it will also be relevant to practitioners in the field of transport, especially those involved in policy making as well as in the operation and management of transport systems. Its material will try to blend in the best possible way the results of prime transport research, providing answers to the 'real world' problems.
