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European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
ISSN 1567-7133 · eISSN 1567-7141 · TU Delft Open · Netherlands
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.47; fully open access; no APC; review about 30 weeks (community reports); 22 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research is published by TU Delft Open and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Transportation Planning and Optimization, Urban Transport and Accessibility and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics, together about 43.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (EJTIR) is a peer-reviewed open access journal with no article processing charges and no publishing fees. All papers are double blind peer-reviewed. While we are a European-based journal, we welcome papers from all over the world. We expect authors to explicitly discuss potential lessons relevant to Europe or other western countries. Because EJTIR aims to be relevant for practice, we favor multi-disciplinary papers that study topics from different angles. Transport and infrastructure can be studied from a wide range of perspectives. EJTIR takes a special interest in the behavioral, organizational, economic, and/or public policy dimensions of the planning and operations of transport systems. We consider all modes of transport for passenger and freight transport. Examples of topics that fall inside the scope of EJTIR are impact assessments of exogenous developments, disruptions, and interventions affecting the transport system, as well as design and decision support methods for those interventions. Examples of interventions in which we are interested are infrastructure improvements, spatial planning related interventions, the introduction and deployment of new modes, technologies and services, maintenance and asset management, crowd management, information services, mobility and traffic management, and pricing policies. Impact assessments can for example focus on behavioral changes, such as changes in activities and tours, location choice and land use, non-travelling, destination choice, vehicle ownership, mode choice, vehicle type choice and departure time choice, impacts on multi-modal flows, and on broader impacts such as economic impacts, and impacts on accessibility, livability, sustainability, health, safety, equity, and resilience. Examples of papers that fall outside the scope of EJTIR are papers that discuss structural components of infrastructure or pavement without addressing their impact on the transport system's performance, as well as those focusing on individual links, nodes, or elements of a transport system (e.g., a single intersection, luggage belt, elements of supply chains, internal company logistics) without considering system-level implications or implications on policy-making processes. Additionally, highly theoretical, or technical topics, such as technical requirements for vehicle-to-vehicle communication, supply chain optimization, vehicle routing problems, or machine lea
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): TRANSPORTATION
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Netherlands 12, United States 3, United Kingdom 3, Switzerland 3, Germany 2 (36 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Transportation Planning and OptimizationSocial Sciences20.8%
- Urban Transport and AccessibilitySocial Sciences14.7%
- Urban and Freight Transport LogisticsEngineering8.1%
- Transportation and Mobility InnovationsEngineering6.4%
- Maritime Ports and LogisticsEngineering4.8%
- Transport and Economic PoliciesBusiness, Management and Accounting4.5%
- Economic and Environmental ValuationEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.4%
- Aviation Industry Analysis and TrendsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Transportation | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Transportation | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Transportation | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.47LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 50OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 317OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.9OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 97.37%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 19LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 703 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025 | 22 | 22 | 38 |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 | 39 |
| 2023 | 6 | 6 | 39 |
| 2022 | 21 | 21 | 180 |
| 2021 | 21 | 21 | 161 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 30 weeksLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- AI use Use of AI
The use of AI technologies for writing and summarising is becoming increasingly popular. When used responsibly in research, i.e. where ideas, interpretations and conclusions are clearly human-generated, it can facilitate innovation. However, authors and editors remain fully responsible and accountable for the quality and content of the manuscripts. In line with the COPE Position Statement of 13 Fe…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
Length limit: no more than 20 pages single-spaced or approximately 8000 words. Model summary
All co-authors must agree to submit the work to the journal. For authors’ disputes, see the “Complaints and Appeals” section. How to add extra authors before publication: All co-authors must agree to add new (co)authors to the publication Agreement must be collected and sent to the editor with an explanation
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest
All COIs will be handled as follows by the journal in the first instance, then the publisher: Disclosure: Anyone (editors, reviewers, authors and any other relevant parties) involved in the publishing process should disclose any potential conflicts of interest they may have Evaluation: After disclosing the potential COI, it needs to be examined to determine its importance and possible impact on th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
Editors, authors, and publisher adopt the guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the fair data principles. The journal adheres to the COPE Core Practices and the principles of transparency described in the Declaration on transparent editorial policies for academic journals.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
CC BY 4.0 licence. Model summary
EJTIR is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. The license means that anyone is free to share (to copy, distribute, and transmit the work), to remix (to adapt the work) under the following conditions: The original authors must be given credit For any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are Any of …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
EJTIR is an open access journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone is free to share (to copy, distribute, and transmit the work), to remix (to adapt the work) under the following conditions: The original authors must be given credit For any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are Any of …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Review Process
Double-anonymous peer review by editors and external experts. Model summary
EJTIR distinguishes itself from other journals in terms of the speed of our review process. Normally, our desk review is performed within a week. All submitted papers to EJTIR are subject to critical double-blind peer review by our editors and by external experts in the field. If a paper is sent out for external review, reports from our referees are sent back to the author within three to four mon…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Similarity Check
A similarity check is part of the TU Delft OPEN Publishing standard publication procedure. Authors submitting their article to the EJTIR should expect their work to go through a similarity analysis at any workflow stage. All articles submitted are checked with iThenticate software. The editor and publisher carefully analyse the reports. In case of suspected plagiarism, the authors will have two we…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- TU Delft Open
- Country or region
- Netherlands
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1567-7133
- Electronic ISSN
- 1567-7141
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 26, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research
What CAS zone is European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research is in Zone 4 of Engineering, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Transportation. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.47; CiteScore 3.1, h-index 50.
How long does peer review take at European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research?
Authors report an average review time of about 30 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research based?
Of the 36 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Netherlands (12), United States (3) and United Kingdom (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research is indexed in SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research open access, and what is the APC?
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research is a fully open-access journal. It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .