Communications in Transportation Research

Communications in Transportation Research is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 1 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety, Traffic control and management and Transportation Planning and Optimization, together about 37% of its articles. Its main subfields are Transportation. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Volume 6 Issue 2, June 2026 All Issues Communications in Transportation Research publishes peer-reviewed high-quality research representing important advances of significance to emerging transport systems. The mission is to provide fair, fast, and expert peer review to authors and insightful theories, impactful advances, and interesting discoveries to readers. We welcome submissions of significant and general topics, of inter-disciplinary nature (transport, civil, control, artificial intelligence, social science, psychological science, medical services, etc.), of complex and inter-related system of systems, of strong evidence of data strength, of visionary analysis and forecasts towards the way forward, and of potentially implementable and utilizable policies/practices. To be more specific, the scope of expected submissions includes but is not limited to: Interactions among transportation systems and other systems Integrations of emerging technologies with transportation systems Big data analytics in transportation area Advances and discoveries in transportation area Forward-looking judgment for future transportation systems Emerging technologies/products and their impact on transportation Novel transportation modes and associated analytics Governmental initiated transportation policies and impact analysis Mobility as a service Field experiments of emerging transportation technologies Transportation electrification, automation, and connectivity Communications in Transportation Research is a fully open access journal. It is published by Tsinghua University Press, and co-sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy (Tsinghua University) and China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association (ITS China). View Aims and Scope Editors-in-Chief: Xiaobo Qu, Xiaopeng (Shaw) Li View Editorial Board Tsinghua University & China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association View Society, Partner and Affiliation Communications in Transportation Research will cease to be published by Elsevier after the completion of Volume 5 (2025). From Volume 6 (2026), the journal will be published by Tsinghua University Press on the SciOpen platform with the official journal website at https://www.sciopen.com/journal/2097-5023. We kindly request that all new manuscript submissions from September 11, 2025, be made through the journal’s submission system at https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/commtr. For any submission-related inquiries, please contact the Edi

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Control and Systems Engineering

Editor-in-chief Xiaobo QuPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 45 in mainland China (about 56%); most named Mainland China 45, United States 9, Singapore 5, Sweden 4, Germany 3 (80 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

12.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

13.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

13.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

1.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.47LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

44OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

124OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

9.98OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

8.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

63LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

7 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 8 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Elsevier

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

ISSN

2772-4247

Print ISSN

2097-5023

Official links

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• Special issues ↗Publisher website
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