Research in Transportation Business and Management is edited by Stephen Ison, University of Loughborough, UK and Mary R. Brooks, Dalhousie University, Canada.
The journal will publish themed volumes on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation.
Forthcoming volumes will be on Airport Management, Accessibility in passenger transport: policy and management and Logistics.
The journal aims to stimulate the quality of service for railway passengers and freight customers by improving the knowledge on effectiveness and efficiency of capacity management, timetabling, management and safety of railway operations. It covers the whole range of light rail, metro and heavy railway systems.
In this interview, Professor Hensher describes the impact of the Thredbo conference series, the evolution of ideas in this field, and the importance of Thredbo’s connection with the journal, Research in Transportation Economics.
Elsevier publish 10 of the 15 top ranked journals by Impact Factor in the ‘Transportation’ category in the Social Sciences Citation Index*. View the full list.
The collection consists of 42 papers covering a wide range of important features of city logistics with an aim to aiding the understanding of urban freight transport issues, models, evaluation methods and planning.
Freight Transport and Sustainability Research in Transportation Economics
Guest Editors: S. S. Ganji, Islamic Azad University, Iran, Ka-Io Wong, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Mohammad Najafi, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Submission deadline: December 15 2011