STC Journal: Transportation Safety & Security

View the Journal of Transportation Safety & Security's editorial board (.pdf).

The Southeastern Transportation Center is pleased to announce its new international journal, Transportation Safety and Security (TS&S). TS&S is a quarterly journal dedicated to the development of theory and methods in multimodal transportation safety and security arenas. These encompass highway, transit, ridesharing, pedestrian and bicycle modes, as well as rail, water and aviation transportation.

The aims and scope of TS&S are broad and multidisciplinary. They include the various aspects of transportation safety and security issues in infrastructure design, driver psychology and human factors, traffic control and traffic operations, crash data collection and analyses, safety information and communication systems, advanced and emerging vehicle and network technologies, and policy and planning. TS&S is also interested in diverse transportation security issues, such as incident planning and response, emergency evacuation, securing transportation networks and pipelines, establishing security standards for certain transportation modes, and criticality and vulnerability assessments of transportation assets.

The mission of TS&S is to disseminate research results and engineering experience to researchers, educators, students, practitioners and policy makers in order to enhance transportation safety and security with comprehensive and integrated solutions. TS&S publishes original, full-length articles only, and all papers are subject to rigorous peer review.

The first issue will launch in March 2009. Submissions of manuscripts should be no more than 6000 words. Please read the Instructions for Authors and other manuscript information. Authors should submit manuscripts by email directly to the journal's managing editor, Ms. Lissa Gay, lissa@utk.edu.

Possible Paper Topics:

safety aspects of infrastructure design
driver behavior and human factors
traffic control and traffic operations
crash data collection and analyses
safety information and communication systems
advanced and emerging vehicle and network technologies
safety policy and planning
security issues of transportation systems and networks
emergency and incident planning and response