International Journal of Transport Economics

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Potential research themes

  1. Transportation investment: methods and techniques for evaluation
  2. Analysis of transport costs
  3. Externalities in transportation
  4. Infrastructure policy
  5. Pricing policy
  6. Modal Competition
  7. Analysis of the cost-effectiveness of transport policies and measures
  8. Sustainability and Environmental analysis of the transport sector
  9. Productivity and Efficiency in transportation
  10. Logistics
  11. Governance and Regulation of transport markets
  12. Transportation demand assessment and forecast
  13. Firm production and cost in transportation
  14. Welfare effects of transport-sector pricing and investment

These themes could be applied to different transport modes (e.g. Air, Rail, Seaborne, Road and Intermodal transports) and markets (e.g. Freight, Passengers, Urban mobility).

Submission requirements

Please upload two Word files: one anonymous version and one with authors’ details. Please upload the anonymous file FIRST, then all the others!

Please prepare your manuscript before submission, using the following guidelines:

Format - All files should be submitted as a Word document.

Article Length - Articles should be a maximum of 60,000 characters in length (including spaces and foot notes). This includes all text (paper, references and appendices).

Article Title - A title of not more than eight words should be provided.

Article Title Page - An Article Title Page should be submitted alongside each individual, including:

  • Article Title
  • Author Details (see below)
  • Acknowledgement
  • Author Biographies
  • Structured Abstract (see below)
  • Keywords (see below)
  • Article Classification (see below)

Author Details - Details should be supplied on the Article Title Page including:

  • Full name of each author
  • Affiliation of each author, at time research was completed
  • Where more than one author has contributed to the article, details of who should be contacted for correspondence
  • E-mail address of the corresponding author
  • Brief professional biography of each author.

Structured Abstract - Authors must supply an abstract on the Article Title Page, containing:

  • Purpose
  • Design/methodology/approach
  • Main findings
  • Originality/value

Maximum is 250 words in total (including keywords).

Keywords - Please provide up to 5-6 keywords on the Article Title Page, which encapsulate the principal topics of the paper.

Headings - Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the distinction between the hierarchy of headings. The preferred format is for first level headings to be presented in bold format and subsequent sub-headings to be presented in medium italics.

Notes/Footnotes - Notes or footnotes should be used only if absolutely necessary and must be created by MS Word automatic system.

Research Funding - Authors must declare all sources of external research funding in their article and a statement to this effect should appear in the Acknowledgements section. Authors should describe the role of the funder or financial sponsor in the entire research process, from study design to submission.

Figures - All Figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, web pages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted in electronic form.
All Figures should be of high quality, legible and numbered consecutively with arabic numerals. Graphics may be supplied in colour to facilitate their appearance on the online database.

  • Figures created in MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Illustrator should be supplied in their native formats. Electronic figures created in other applications should be copied from the origination software and pasted into a blank MS Word document or saved and imported into an MS Word document or alternatively create a .pdf file from the origination software.

  • Figures which cannot be supplied in as the above are acceptable in the standard image formats which are: .pdf, .ai, and .eps. If you are unable to supply graphics in these formats then please ensure they are .tif, .jpeg, or .bmp at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide.

  • To prepare web pages/screenshots simultaneously press the “Alt” and “Print screen” keys on the keyboard, open a blank Microsoft Word document and simultaneously press “Ctrl” and “V” to paste the image. (Capture all the contents/windows on the computer screen to paste into MS Word, by simultaneously pressing “Ctrl” and “Print screen”.)

  • Photographic images should be submitted electronically and of high quality. They should be saved as .tif or .jpeg files at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide. Digital camera settings should be set at the highest resolution/quality possible.

Tables - Tables should be typed and included in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the body text of article with corresponding labels being clearly shown in the separate file.

References - References to other publications must be in Harvard style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency. This is very important in an electronic environment because it enables your readers to exploit the Reference Linking facility on the database and link back to the works you have cited through CrossRef.

You should cite publications in the text: (Forrester, 1991) using the first named author’s name or (Rodrigue and Noteboom, 2013) citing both names of two, or (Ashley et al., 2006), when there are three or more authors. At the end of the paper a reference list in alphabetical order should be supplied:

For books - Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication. e.g. Harrow, R. (2005), No Place to Hide, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
For books chapters - Surname, Initials (year), “Chapter title”, Editor’s Surname, Initials, Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication, pages. e.g. Calabrese, F. A. (2005), “The early pathways: theory to practice – a continuum”, in Stankosky, M. (Ed.), Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, pp. 15-20.
For journals - Surname, Initials (year), “Title of article”, Journal Name, volume, number, pages. e.g. Capizzi, M. T. and Ferguson, R. (2005), “Loyalty trends for the twenty-first century”, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 72-80.
For published conference proceedings - Surname, Initials (year of publication), “Title of paper”, in Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers.

e.g. Jakkilinki, R., Georgievski, M. and Sharda, N. (2007), “Connecting destinations with an ontology-based e-tourism planner”, in Information and communication technologies in tourism 2007 proceedings of the international conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007, Springer, Vienna, pp. 12-32.

For unpublished conference proceedings - Surname, Initials (year), “Title of paper”, paper presented at Name of Conference, date of conference, place of conference, available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date).

e.g. Aumueller, D. (2005), “Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki”, paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 20 February 2007).

For working papers - Surname, Initials (year), “Title of article”, working paper [number if available], Institution or organization, Place of organization, date.
e.g. Moizer, P. (2003), “How published academic research can inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of audit appointments”, working paper, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March.

For encyclopedia entries (with no author or editor) - Title of Encyclopedia (year) “Title of entry”, volume, edition, Title of Encyclopedia, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926) “Psychology of culture contact”, Vol. 1,13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY, pp. 765-771.

(For authored entries please refer to book chapter guidelines above)

For newspaper articles (authored) - Surname, Initials (year), “Article title”, Newspaper, date, pages. e.g. Smith, A. (2008), “Money for old rope”, Daily News, 21 January, pp. 1, 3-4.

For newspaper articles (non-authored) - Newspaper (year), “Article title”, date, pages.

e.g. Daily News (2008), “Small change”, 2 February, p. 7.

For electronic sources - If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed.

e.g. Castle, B. (2005), “Introduction to web services for remote portlets”, available at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-wsrp/ (accessed 12 November 2007).

Standalone URLs, i.e. without an author or date, should be included either within parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper).

Editorial and Peer Review Process

The Journal only publishes original research articles, review articles, and book reviews. To be accepted for publication, submitted papers must not have been previously pub-
lished elsewhere, entirely or in part, nor should they be currently under review for publica- tion by another journal. The Chief Editors of the Journal will decide whether submissions contain well-conducted research with conclusions supported by the sources discussed in the paper. All papers must present the results of original research and make an incremental or novel addition to the existing literature.
The Journal aims to maintain the highest standards of peer review while processing sub- missions in a timely and efficient manner.

  • The Journal adopts a double-blind peer reviewing policy, in which the identity of both reviewer and author is concealed from both parties. All text of the submitted papers, includ- ing footnotes and acknowledgements, must therefore be worded appropriately in order to ensure anonymity. In addition, the author’s name, institutional affiliation and other contact information are removed before the manuscript is sent to the reviewers.
  • All publication decisions are made by the Chief Editors on the basis of the reviews pro- vided.
  • Members of the Editorial Board assist and advise the Chief Editors in evaluating specific submissions.

Peer review of new submissions:

Articles submitted directly to the Journal will be fully peer reviewed by at least two appro- priately qualified experts in the field selected by one of the Chief Editors. The Chief Editors will then decide whether to accept, reject or request revisions based on the reviews and com- ments received. Authors will be informed about the decision by e-mail.

_Further reviews of refereed papers:

Refereed papers will be assessed by the Chief Editors of the Journal, who will decide, on the basis of the reviews, whether to accept or reject them, or request revisions. The Editors may also decide to seek additional reviews if deemed necessary. Authors will be advised when this is the case.

Publication details

Articles reviewed and accepted in the journal are progressively published online, with DOI, as soon as their editorial processing phase is completed.

Each author, after having published three articles in the journal, will be granted the publication of a fourth article for free in Open Access.