On December 5, 2024, Communications in Transportation Research was officially indexed simultaneously in Clarivate's Web of Science Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).

In the JCR report released in June 2024, Communications in Transportation Research received its first impact factor of 12.5, ranking first among 58 journals in the field of Transportation globally, and third among 72 journals in the field of Transportation Science & Technology. Being indexed in both SCIE and SSCI within just three years of its establishment demonstrates its recognition by the international academic and publishing communities in terms of academic quality, influence, internationalization, and standardization.

Here, the COMMTR editorial team extends heartfelt gratitude to the journal's sponsoring and publishing institutions, the editor-in-chief, editorial board members, reviewers, authors, and all friends who have supported and cared for the journal. Looking ahead, COMMTR will continue striving to become a platform for showcasing innovative achievements and an important window for academic exchange in the field of international transportation and related areas. Let us work together and embark on a new journey!

Highlights of COMMTR

·2023 Impact Factor: 12.5, ranking 1st out of 58 journals in the field of Transportation (1/58, Q1) and 3rd out of 72 journals in the field of Transportation Science & Technology (3/72, Q1).

·Achievements: Selected in 2022 as a "High-Starting-Point New Journal Project" under China's Excellence Action Plan for Science and Technology Journals.

·2024 Recognition: Included in the second phase of the Excellence Action Plan for Science and Technology Journals in the English-Language Journal Program and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Journal Development Program (Strengthening Journals).

·International Reach: 70% of papers are international; self-citation rate is 3.6%; 89% of downloads are from international users, primarily in the United States.

·Editorial Board: Comprises 53 members from 20 countries, with 68% of members from overseas, including 13 academicians from various countries.

·Author Diversity: Authors hail from 21 countries and regions, representing top research teams from institutions such as MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Duke, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Southeast University, Beihang University, the University of Tokyo, National University of Singapore, the University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

·Indexing: Indexed in SCIE, SSCI, Scopus (CiteScoreTracker 2024: 20.2), Ei Compendex, DOAJ, and TRID, among other renowned international databases.

COMMTR Editorial Team

Qu Xiaobo

Professor with tenure at the School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University. Selected for the National High-Level Overseas Talent Program in 2021 and an Academician of the Academia Europaea. Before returning to China full-time, he was a chaired professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Over the past five years, he has led major projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the EU, the Swedish Ministry of Science, and the Swedish Research Council, with research funding exceeding 40 million euros. He serves as an associate editor or editorial board member for nine leading journals in the field, has published over 180 papers, and is frequently invited as a reviewer or final evaluator for high-profile programs such as EU talent projects, Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence, and major projects of the Dutch Research Council.

The journal publishes various types of papers, including Research Articles, Reviews, Editorials, and Discussions. Tsinghua University Press will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) for all papers published in COMMTR from 2024 to 2025.

Scope of Publication:

The journal publishes high-quality, original research and review articles that are of significant importance to emerging transportation systems. Interdisciplinary studies related to transportation (e.g., transportation and civil engineering, control systems, artificial intelligence, social sciences, psychology, healthcare services, etc.) are also welcome.

Topics of Publication (including but not limited to):

·Interactions between transportation systems and other systems

·Integration of emerging technologies with transportation systems

·Big data analysis in the transportation field

·Advances and discoveries in transportation

·Forward-looking perspectives on future transportation systems

·Emerging technologies/products and their impact on transportation

·Analysis of new transportation models

·Government-initiated transportation policies and impact analysis

·Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

·Field experiments of emerging transportation technologies

·Electrification, automation, and connectivity in transportation

Development of COMMTR

Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) is an English academic journal jointly sponsored by Tsinghua University and the China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association. It is edited and published by Tsinghua University Press and distributed internationally by Elsevier. The journal publishes high-quality, original research and reviews of significant importance to emerging transportation systems. Founded in August 2021, it is fully open access.

Data and Code Sharing

COMMTR is one of the first transportation/vehicle journals to require the sharing of data and code. To further ensure the academic quality of published papers, enhance research reproducibility, improve transparency in the research process, and promote data reuse, the journal requires all accepted manuscripts to submit a "Replication Package." Authors are also encouraged to share their data on the ETS-Data Transportation Data Sharing Platform (https://ets-data.sciopen.com).

The ETS-Data Transportation Data Sharing Platform was jointly designed and developed by Tsinghua University Press and the School of Vehicle and Mobility at Tsinghua University. It is a publicly accessible transportation data-sharing platform for researchers worldwide, providing essential files such as data, code, and other replication materials. All files can be downloaded for free under specific agreement frameworks, and each dataset is assigned a permanent DOI and CSTR identifier for direct download and citation.

In 2022, the ETS-Data platform was included in the Data Citation Index (DCI) based on Web of Science, becoming the first Chinese transportation science data-sharing platform indexed in this database. In 2023, it was also indexed by Google Dataset Search.