A free, open-access, peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of networks and activity

Journal of Transport and Land Use

The Journal is open access. Articles accepted and published in the Journal will be free to read for anyone with internet access. This increases the visibility of scientific communication, both to other researchers and to the public at large. The research will not be held captive by for-profit publishers or buried in stacks of university libraries. All papers accepted for publication will be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License 3.0 .

The Journal is free to publish in. Unlike some open access journals, there are no fees for publishing in the journal. The Journal is operated on a volunteer basis with some institutional support from the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota. The costs are reduced as there is no paper version of the Journal, which is online-only.

The Journal is peer-reviewed. All scientific articles are reviewed by other researchers in the field for their scientific merit on questions of transport and land use (including originality, accuracy, relevance, importance, and transparency – including comprendibility and reproducability). Reviews, Opinion, and Commentary are reviewed by the editors.

The Journal is timely. Articles submitted may be posted at the "Under Review" section immediately (after a brief review of relevance by the editors). These papers will be indexed as working papers in Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) and TRIS with appropriate metadata.

The Journal will help advance other research. The data used in papers and unique software described in papers will be made publicly available if not already archived (safeguarding privacy where necessary) to ensure transparency and reproducability of the research.

We aim for a six week turnaround between submission and reviews being returned to the author. Once a paper has been accepted and is properly formatted, it will be posted immediately. The paper will be re-indexed as a peer-reviewed journal article.

The Journal aims for legitimacy and widespread dissemination. The Journal's ISSN number is: 1938-7849 . We are seeking indexing in the Thomson-ISI Index of Scientific Journals. The Journal itself will be indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

A flyer summarzing the journal's aims can be downloaded here.