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Transportation Letters
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Transportation Letters

1942-7867

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ytrl20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Business and Management 528 9 8 5
Engineering and Technology 557 44 56 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 72
Documents by Best Scientists*: 82
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 41
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.889
Impact Factor: 3.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research?

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Transport engineering, Travel behavior, Simulation, Operations research and Mode choice. The Transport engineering works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Estimation and Data collection. Travel behavior research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Marketing and Econometrics.

Research on Econometrics addressed in the journal frequently intersections with the field of Statistics. The Simulation study featured in Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research draws parallels with the field of Traffic simulation.

  • Transport engineering (36.43%)
  • Travel behavior (17.05%)
  • Simulation (12.02%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A GPS-based bicycle route choice model for San Francisco, California (235 citations)
  • If Telecommunication is Such a Good Substitute for Travel, Why Does Congestion Continue to Get Worse? (135 citations)
  • An Automated GPS-Based Prompted Recall Survey with Learning Algorithms (100 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research:

The journal publications facilitate discussions on Transport engineering, Travel behavior, Traffic simulation, Mode choice and Econometrics. In addition to Transport engineering research, the most cited publications aim to explore topics under Network model and Mode (statistics). The most cited publications focus on Travel behavior but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Algorithm, Marketing, Risk analysis (engineering) and Data science.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Statistics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Transport engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Pandemic, 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Transport engineering and Travel behavior are the subjects of interest in Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research. TRIPS architecture is part of Transport engineering studies tackled in it. While it focused on TRIPS architecture, it was also able to explore topics like Advertising and Preference.

It holds forums on Travel behavior that merges themes from other disciplines such as Distributed lag, Econometrics and Time series. Research in Optimization problem and the interrelating topic of Operations research were among the subjects of interest in the Public transport studies discussed in it. The work on Development economics tackled in Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research brings together disciplines like Developing country, Revealed preference and Behavior change.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Analytical models for comparing Demand Responsive Transport with bus services in low demand interurban areas (11 citations)
  • Same questions, different answers? A hierarchical comparison of cyclists’ perceptions of comfort: in-traffic vs. online approach (7 citations)
  • The Influence of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Mobility Patterns: The First Wave’s Results (6 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Steven T Waller (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Anne Goodchild (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Abolfazl Mohammadian (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Konstadinos G. Goulias (5 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Hjp Harry Timmermans (5 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (6 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Virginia Tech (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (4 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 6.25% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 30.00% of all publications and 36.67% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Modeling the effect of Mobility-as-a-Service on mode choice decisions

    Anna-Maria Feneri;Soora Rasouli;Harry J.P. Timmermans

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • Examining the persistence of telecommuting after the COVID-19 pandemic

    (2022)
    57 Citations
  • A linear-quadratic-integral regulator for local ramp metering in the case of distant downstream bottlenecks

    Evgenia Stylianopoulou;Maria Kontorinaki;Markos Papageorgiou;Ioannis Papamichail

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 on urban passenger travel demand in the greater Toronto area: description of a multi-pronged and multi-staged study with initial results

    Khandker Nurul Habib;Jason Hawkins;Saeed Shakib;Patrick Loa

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Modeling hybrid cars adoption using an extended version of the theory of planned behavior

    (2022)
    27 Citations
  • How have ride-sourcing users adapted to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic? evidence from a survey-based study of the Greater Toronto Area

    Patrick Loa;Sanjana Hossain;Yicong Liu;Khandker Nurul Habib

    (2021)
    26 Citations
  • An empirical study of the labor supply of ride-sourcing drivers

    Zhengtian Xu;Daniel A.M.C. Vignon;Yafeng Yin;Jieping Ye

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Innovations impacting the future of transportation: an overview of connected, automated, shared, and electric technologies

    (2022)
    22 Citations
  • A binary particle swarm optimization algorithm for ship routing and scheduling of liquefied natural gas transportation

    Amir Karbassi Yazdi;Mohamad Amin Kaviani;Ali Emrouznejad;Hadi Sahebi

    (2020)
    21 Citations

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