Recently published:

• Levinson, David (2013) The Journal of Transport and Land Use enters year six, Journal of Transport and Land Use 6(1), pp 1-5.

  The Journal of Transport and Land Use enters its sixth volume continuing to publish selected peer-reviewed papers from the most recent World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research. The 2014 Symposium will be held in Delft, Netherlands, and we hope to see a large turnout. Look out for invitations and announcements.

Key items in this article include

1. Metrics

In the past year, the JTLU website has had almost 17,000 visits. According to Google Scholar, we have an h-index of 16, 16 articles cited 16 or more times, and a citation rate of 14.2 citations per article (this is up from 8.3 last year, and 3.6 the year before). This is not the equivalent of the (in)famous ISI 2-year impact factor, which has not been computed yet, and awaits inclusion in their database, but may be analogous to a 5-year impact factor. The articles that are published survive a rigorous review process. The Journal’s acceptance rate is just above 30 percent. We are also pleased that we are now indexed by Scopus, an important international abstract and citation database that catalogs qualified peer reviewed journals.

2. Review Policies: Accept/Not Accept

Going forward, JTLU is adopting clearer review criteria. All articles (including manuscripts, letters, literature reviews, and methods) will be accepted or not on the first round. We are eliminating “revise and resubmit” and “resubmit for re- view” as categories.




3. Review Policies: Significance

We are eliminating “significance” as a review criterion. Articles should be original, scientifically correct and technically sound, transparent, reproducible and adhere to data sharing standards, and clearly written to be understood. They must also be on the topic of Transport and Land Use (the “and” in our title is a Boolean “and,” denoting intersection, not an “or,” indicating union, we often get submissions which we desk- reject on either Transport or Land Use, but not considering the interaction).




4. Paper length heterogeneity

The “minimum publishable unit” is often derided in the academic literature as a paper in which the authors spread results in too many places, pursuing number of publications over quality of paper. On the other hand, sometimes papers are too long, reciting things that are well known.

5. Editorial Advisory Board

After five full years, we are making some significant changes to the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB).

Vol 6, No 1 (2013)

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Special Issue: World Symposium on Transport & Land Use Research

Book Reviews

A number of papers in the academic literature use words in the title like: Understanding, Examining, Studying, Determining, Assessing, Modeling, Evaluating, Impacts of, Effects of, etc. I am guilty of this myself in some papers where insufficient thought goes into the name. Often these words can be eliminated.

There is no formula for good titles. There are however statistics on what types of words and punctuation marks lead to better or worse citation rates (Huggett 2011). As a simple illustration, there is a reason Adam Smith's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" is shortened to "Wealth of Nations".

In titles, as in life, Omit Needless Words.

References

Huggett, Sarah (2011) Heading for success: or how not to title your paper. Research Trends #24.

The Journal of Transport and Land Use (JTLU), an international, open-access, peer-reviewed online journal that publishes original interdisciplinary papers on the interaction of transport and land use, is pleased to announce that it is now indexed in Scopus.

Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Scopus is managed by Elsevier and covers more than 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. The Scopus title reviewer commented on JTLU:

“Excellent journal, and an excellent addition to the Scopus data base.”

Domains covered by JTLU include: engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems. JTLU is also the official journal of the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research.

For more information on JTLU, please visit www.jtlu.org. To learn more about Scopus, please visit www.info.sciverse.com/scopus.

We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 5, Issue 3 of the Journal
of Transport and Land Use.

Table of Contents

Viewpoint: Assessing the reality—Transport and land use planning to
achieve sustainability

• David Banister, Oxford University

What makes travel 'local': Defining and understanding local travel behavior

• Kevin Manaugh and Ahmed El-Geneidy, McGill University

Impact of light rail implementation on labor market accessibility: A
transportation equity perspective

• Yingling Fan, Andrew E. Guthrie, and David M. Levinson, University of Minnesota

How built environment affects travel behavior: A comparative analysis of
the connections between land use and vehicle miles traveled in US cities

• Lei Zhang, University of Maryland
• Arefeh Nasri, University of Maryland
• Jin Hyun Hong, University of Washington
• Qing Shen, University of Washington

Does public transit use increase the economic efficiency of urban areas?

• Mathew Drennan, UCLA
  
• Charles Brecher, New York University

The paths from walk preference to walk behavior: Applying latent factors in
structural equation modeling

• Matthew A. Coogan, New England Transportation Institute
• Thomas Adler, Resource Systems Group
• Karla Karash, TranSystems Corporation

Delivering the 'D' in transit-oriented development: Examining the town
planning challenge

• Carey Curtis, Curtin University

Book Review

Human transit: How clearer thinking about public transit can enrich our
communities and our lives, by Jarrett Walker

• Kari Edison Watkins, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Journal of Transport and Land Use is an open-access, peer-reviewed
online journal publishing original interdisciplinary papers on the
interaction of transport and land use. Domains include: engineering,
planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science,
sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems.

Thank you for the continuing interest in our work,

This was just announced:

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce that the 2014 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR) will be held in Delft, the Netherlands, from Tuesday, June 24, 2014, through Friday, June 27, 2014. Please mark your calendars. Deadlines for full paper submissions will be announced in early 2013. This will be a call for full paper submission with a double-blind peer review process. Selected articles from the symposium will appear in the Journal of Transport and Land Use in 2015. More information regarding the symposium will be posted in the future on the WSTLUR website.

We would like to take this opportunity first to congratulate Professor Kees Maat from Delft University of Technology and Professor Karst Geurs from the University of Twente for their excellent proposal that won the bid. We would also like to thank all the institutions that indicated interest in organizing WSTLUR 2014.

Looking forward to seeing you in Delft.

Kelly Clifton and Ahmed El-Geneidy

The new issue of the Journal of Transport and Land Use 5(2) has just landed. In this issue you will find papers from the 2011 World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research,

Journal of Transport and Land Use Vol 5, No 2 (2012)

Table of Contents

Special Issue: World Symposium on Transport & Land Use Research

Book Reviews

Stay tuned for an upcoming announcement about WSTLUR 2014.

David King of Getting from here to there will be editing a Special Issue of JTLU on "Spatial and Land Use Implications of Taxis, Jitneys, Paratransit and Flexible Transportation". If you are doing research in the field, contact him.

Eric Jaffe @ The Atlantic Cities picks up on John Calimente's recent JTLU article: The Secret to Tokyo's Rail Success :

"In other words the railway itself was just a sideline attraction. This is no accident. As John Calimente reminds us in the latest issue of the Journal of Transport and Land Use [PDF], a major reason Tokyo's private rail lines are so successful is that they've diversified the business beyond transportation into real estate holdings and retail outlets. At the end of the day this means both profitability for the company and better transportation for city residents. Calimente writes:

Government regulation of fares coupled with limited subsidies for railway operations pushed the private railways to innovate and diversify into a wide variety of related businesses, most notably real estate. Due to their long-term interest in the communities they built along their rail lines, the private railways provided valuable social benefits through public transportation while still pursuing profits. High quality, frequent rail service to dense, mixed-use, safe, pedestrian-friendly developments has allowed Tokyo to achieve enviable rates of public transit usage and given Tokyoites the freedom to view automobile ownership as a lifestyle choice rather than a necessity.

Take, for instance, the Tokyu Corporation. Established in 1922 as a regional development company, Tokyu today is a massive "rail-based conglomerate" of nearly 400 companies that employs 30,000 people, only a tenth of which work directly for the railway. Beginning in the 1930s Tokyu surrounded its hubs with commercial and retail buildings and sold land near its intermediate stations to universities at good prices, to create reliable residential (and thus passenger) corridors.

Pretty good plan: Tokyu's seven main rail lines and branch line now carry about a billion riders a year. That's the most of any private railway in Japan, as of 2006, according to Calimente. That year Tokyu generated $2.63 billion in revenue en route to $587 million in profits. Rail fares brought in about a third of that figure, real estate holdings reap another third, and retail about a fifth."

[This is from the recent special issue on Value Capture.]

The new issue of the Journal of Transport and Land Use 5(1) has landed. Inside are:

Introduction to the Special Issue on Value Capture for Transportation Finance

by David Levinson and Jerry Zhao

This special issue includes 5 articles on value capture strategies used in transportation finance.

Joint Development as a Value Capture Strategy in Transportation Finance

by Zhirong Jerry Zhao, Kirti Vardhan Das, Kerstin Larson

This article examines joint development as a value capture strategy for funding public transportation. We start from the concept of joint development, its rationale, a brief history, and the extent of its use. Joint development projects in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tokyo, and Thailand are profiled, as well as domestic examples in Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Portland, OR, etc. Then we provide a framework to classify joint development models by ownerships (public or private) and by types of transaction (real property or development rights). Next, joint development is evaluated along four revenue criteria including efficiency, equity, sustainability and feasibility. Finally, we summarize the advantages and disadvantages of joint development as a transportation finance strategy, and provide recommendations for policy consideration or implementation.

Rail integrated communities in Tokyo

by John Calimente

Tokyo’s railway station areas are models of transit-oriented design. To differentiate them from transit-oriented developments (TOD), the term rail integrated community (RIC) has been created to describe these high density, safe, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly developments around railway stations that act as community hubs, served by frequent, all-day, rail rapid transit and are accessed primarily on foot, by bicycle, or by public transit. Japanese private railways have been instrumental in creating these RICs. Though they receive little financial support from the government, private railways in Japan achieve profitability by diversifying into real estate, retail, and numerous other businesses. Tokyu Corporation is used as the case study to exemplify how government policy and socioeconomic context contributed to the successful private railway model. Ten indicators, such as ridership, population density and mode share are used to analyze two stations created by Tokyu to demonstrate how this model is manifested in Tokyu’s rail integrated communities.

Prospects for transportation utility fees

by Jason Junge and David Levinson

Transportation utility fees are a financing mechanism for transportation that treats the network as a utility and bills properties in proportion to their use, rather than their value as with the property tax. This connects the costs of maintaining the infrastructure more directly to the benefits received from mobility and access to the system. The fees are based on trips generated and vary with land use. This paper evaluates the fees as an alternative funding source in terms of economic, equity and administrative effects. The experiences of cities currently using utility fees for transportation are discussed. Calculations are included to determine the fee levels necessary for transportation maintenance budget needs in three sample cities and a county in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Proposed fees for each property type are compared to current property tax contributions toward transportation. The regressive effects of the fees and the effect of adjusting for the length of trips generated are also quantified.

Financing transportation with land value taxes: Effects on development intensity

by Jason Junge and David Levinson

A significant portion of local transportation funding comes from the property tax. The tax is conventionally assessed on both land and buildings, but transportation increases only the value of the land. A more direct, efficient way to fund transportation projects is to tax land at a higher rate than buildings. The lower tax on buildings would allow owners to retain more of the profits of their investment in construction, and have the expected side effect of increased development intensity. A partial equilibrium simulation is created for Minneapolis, Richfield and Bloomington, Minnesota to determine the intensity effects of various levels of split-rate property taxes for both residential and nonresidential development. The results indicate that split-rate taxes would lead to higher density for both types of development in all three cities.

The value capture potential of the Lisbon Subway

by Luis Miguel Garrido Martínez and Jose Manuel Viegas

This paper tries to build on traditional value capture measures, to estimate the potential of application of some of these mechanisms to the Lisbon subway, examining their ability to contribute to cover the financial costs of the system operation and development. The study will just focus on the municipality of Lisbon where this system mainly operates. This research uses spatial hedonic pricing models of the real estate of the region, calibrated on previous stages of the study, to asses, to which extent, transportation infrastructure is currently capitalised into the real estate market. The paper uses a Monte Carlo simulation procedure to estimate a synthetic population of residential and non residential properties that matches the census blocks statistics, allowing, measuring the subway valuation for each synthetic property and aggregate the results for the whole municipality. This potential value capture estimate is then used to estimate an annual tax that could be charged under different value capture measures configurations (i.e. land value tax, special assessment). The results suggest that there is a significant potential of the use of this instrument to finance the subway infrastructure.

Below I posit some directions for research in transport and land use. Comments welcome.

1. We need more panels and time series and fewer cross-sectional analyses. If we want to establish causation, we need to look across time, otherwise, we are stuck simply with correlations. [And as we know, correlation is not causation]. We need data that examines the evolution and dynamics of transport and land use systems. I have not quite come to the conclusion that all analyses must be temporal (that is rejecting any atemporal analysis), but I am really tempted to do so as a reviewer.

2. We need to improve the scientific rigor of our research. The discipline is ripe for continuing meta-analysis to establish the magnitude of effects, and to reduce the range of estimates (and explain the range that exists through different underlying causal factors).

3. We need to more systematically consider network structure when looking at explanations of travel behavior. This includes measures of topology, morphology, and hierarchy. The measures that have historically been used have been relatively easy to estimate, but don't get at the gestalt of the network as an integrated system.

4. We need to systematically look at the difference between travelers perceptions of how systems operate and how long are travel times, and what we analysts measure. The differences can be systematically explained, at least in part, and people of course make decisions based on how they think the world works, not on how we think it does. We could then examine why perceptions differ from measurements, how much is simply differences in linguistic interpretation (when a trip begins and ends is somewhat ambiguous, e.g.), and how much is differences in time perception, and how much is "rounding" error, and how much is strategic to either impress with the length of the commute (which brings to mind the Four Yorkshiremen sketch) or to exaggerate in order to get sympathy or a policy response.

5. We need to increase the inter-disciplinarity in the study of transport and land use research, with planners, geographers, engineers, economists, and others working together looking at these problems.

6. We need more international and historical cases in the field to build towards a general truth. Reasoning is both inductive and deductive, but so much of what we are doing is complex, one often cannot simply derive from theory whether a change will lead to more or less travel, it depends on parameters, for instance. the fixed costs of engaging in a trip vs. the variable (and non-linear) costs of travel.

We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 4, Issue 3 of the Journal of Transport and Land Use, available at https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu

Table of Contents

Journal of Transport and Land Use, Vol. 4, Issue 3 

Introducing the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research  
Kevin J. Krizek, University of Colorado 
Kelly J. Clifton, Portland State University

The impact of the residential built environment on work at home adoption
frequency: An example from Northern California 
Wei (Laura) Tang, Patricia L. Mokhtarian, and Susan L. Handy, University of
California, Davis

Mobile phones and telecommuting: Effects on trips and tours of Londoners 
Grace Uayan Padayhag, Tokyo Institute of Technology 
Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Kyoto University 
Daisuke Fukuda, Tokyo Institute of Technology 

The attributes of residence/workplace areas and transit commuting 
Bumsoo Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
Peter Gordon, University of Southern California 
James E. Moore II, University of Southern California 
Harry W. Richardson, University of Southern California 

The impact of residential growth patterns on vehicle travel and pollutant
emissions 
Deb Niemeier, Song Bai, and Susan L. Handy, University of California, Davis

Divergence of potential state-level performance measures to assess
transportation and land use coordination 
John S Miller and Linda D Evans, Virginia Transportation Research Council 

Using multi-criteria decision making to highlight stakeholders’ values in
the corridor planning process 
Bethany Stich, Mississippi State University
Joseph H. Holland, University of Mississippi 
Rodrigo A. A. Nobrega, Mississippi State University
Charles G. O'Hara, Mississippi State University


The Journal of Transport and Land Use is an open-access, peer-reviewed
online journal publishing original interdisciplinary papers on the
interaction of transport and land use. Domains include: engineering,
planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science,
sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems. 

Thank you for the continuing interest in our work,

David M Levinson
University of Minnesota

The newly formed World Society for Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR) recently held its inaugural election for Board. The following were elected to the Board. Congratulations to all, and thanks to our well over 100 members and 25 candidates, and to Kevin Krizek for organizing the elections.

Board Members

• Susan Handy, Interim Chair, Professor and Chair of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis


• Jason (Xinyu) Cao, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota


• Kelly J. Clifton, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University


• Carey Curtis, Professor, Curtin University, Perth, Australia


• Ahmed M. El-Geneidy, Assistant Professor, McGill School of Urban Planning


• Zhan Guo, Assistant Professor, Wagner School of Public Service and Research Director, Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management, New York University


• Kara Kockelman, Professor & William J. Murray Jr. Fellow, Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin


• Corinne Mulley, Chair in Public Transport, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney


• Petter Næss, Professor of Urban Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark


• Paul Waddell, Professor and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley


• Lei Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park

The inaugural World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research
(WSTLUR) was held in Whistler, BC on July 27-30, featuring over 40
peer reviewed papers (submitted to the Journal of Land Use and
Transport, jtlu.org) and keynote addresses from Ed Glaeser (Harvard),
Robert Cervero (UC Berkeley) and David Bannister (Oxford). Please see
www.wstlur.org for the program and links to presentations and even
audio recordings of the keynotes.

The steering committee is now forming the World Society for Transport
and Land Use Research (WSTLUR), who will be charged with organizing a
subsequent symposium in 2014 and other aims of the Society. The
mission statement—broadly, to cultivate an interdisciplinary research
community/agenda--- is below.

Members of the society will elect the board (11 seats are open); the
board will then select its officers. (Please see bylaws posted at
www.wstlur.org ; Kevin J. Krizek, University of Colorado, has been
appointed chair of the elections committee). If you are interested in
participating in this exciting international endeavor, we encourage
you to become a member of the society. Attendees of the World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research
(WSTLUR) are already members. Fees are $75 for three years
and can be registered by going to www.wstlur.org .

Elections for the board will commence Sept 15, 2011; if you are
interested in becoming a member and voting in the election, please
become a member by September 9, 2011.

NOMINATIONS:
If you or someone you know is interested in serving on the board,
please send a nomination to Kevin J. Krizek (Krizek@colorado.edu) by
September 9. Anyone can nominate members for the board, however,
nominees must be (or become) a registered member of the society. A nomination
consists of:

-Name of the nominee
-Current position and affiliation
-A narrative (not to exceed 80 words and written in the third person),
describing the nominee’s activities, broadly speaking, in the area of
integrated transport-land use research.

Self nominations are allowed and all nominations need to be accepted
by the nominee. Please end only one email to Kevin J. Krizek
documenting the above process with the nominee’s full name in the
subject heading. (Self nominees would need to send only one email;
others would send one email with acceptance embedded).

Should you have any questions, please contact
Kevin J. Krizek (University of Colorado) at Krizek@colorado.edu.

MISSION STATEMENT
The purpose of WSTLUR is to promote the understanding and analysis of
the interdisciplinary interactions of transport and land use and to
provide a forum for debate and a mechanism for the dissemination of
information. More specifically the aims include:
1. The exchange and dissemination of information at an international
level on all aspects of the theory, analysis, modeling, and evaluation
of transport-land use interactions and related policy.
2. The encouragement of high-quality research and application in the
above areas, through debates, publication, and promotion.
3. The provision of a clearinghouse for information on recent
developments in the field and to foster contacts among professionals
within and between various countries and different disciplines.
4. The promotion of international conferences, seminars, and workshops
on all aspects of transport-land use interaction.
5. The representation of the viewpoints of members to appropriate
national and international bodies, as required by the membership.
6. The preparation of regular communications to facilitate the above aims.

The Journal of Transport and Land Use 4(2)

Special Issue: The Coevolution of Transport and Land Use

Volume 4, Issue 2 of the Journal of Transport and Land Use focuses on coevolution: how transport drives changes in land use, and vice versa. The issue contains four research articles, examining different geographies, eras, and technologies. These papers present new findings, but as good science should, raise new questions, and help us set a research agenda to better understand the coevolution of transport and land use.

• The Coevolution of Transport and Land Use: An Introduction to the Special Issue and an Outline of a Research Agenda by David M Levinson
• The Impact of Access to Rail Transportation on Agricultural Improvement: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860 by Jeremy Atack, Robert A Margo
• Developing Densely: Estimating the Effect of Subway Growth on New York City Land Uses by David King
• Montréal’s Roots: Exploring the Growth of Montréal’s Indoor City by Ahmed El-Geneidy, Lisa Kastelberger, Hatem T. Abdelhamid
• Does First Last? The Existence and Extent of First Mover Advantages on Spatial Network by David Levinson, Feng Xie

We are pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 4, Issue 1 of the Journal of Transport and Land Use, available at http://www.jtlu.org

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Journal of Transport and Land Use enters year four

David M. Levinson

Articles

Agglomeration economies, accessibility and the spatial choice behavior of relocating firms

Michiel de Bok, Significance b.v., and Frank van Oort

‘New urbanism’ or metropolitan-level centralization? A comparison of the influences of metropolitan-level and neighborhood-level urban form characteristics on travel behavior.

Petter Naess

An application of the node-place model to explore the spatial development dynamics of station areas in Tokyo

Paul Chorus and Luca Bertolini

Defining land use intensity based on roadway level of service targets

Hamid Iravani, Arash Mirhoseini, and Maziar Rasoolzadeh

Impacts of ethanol plants on highway networks

Subhro Mitra, Alan Dybing and Denver Tolliver

Book Reviews

Review of "Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It" by Randal O'Toole

Reviewed by David M. Levinson

The Journal of Transport and Land Use is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing original interdisciplinary papers on the interaction of transport and land use. Domains include: engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems.

Lawrence Lessig talks about The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge arguing academic journals should be freely accessible by the general public, not just the academic elites. We of course already believe this, which is why we launched the Free, Open Content Journal of Transport and Land Use.

Further, the evidence is that open access journals have a citation advantage (Swan "The Open Access citation advantage").

The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.

(Via Kelly Clifton.)

The new issue of the Journal of Transport and Land Use focuses on China:

Land Use and Transport in China by Chris Zegras

China motorization trends: New directions for crowded cities by Wei-Shiuen Ng, Lee Schipper, Yang Chen

Residential location, travel, and energy use in the Hangzhou Metropolitan Area by Petter Naess

Compulsory convenience? How large arterials and land use affect midblock crossing in Fushun, China by Wendy Tao, Shomik Mehndiratta, Elizabeth Deakin

Review of "Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory" by David King

I will be at Current and Future Publishing Practices discussing the Journal of Transport and Land Use

What: Current and Future Publishing Practices: An event especially for, but not exclusive to, faculty editors. Presented by the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Office of the Vice President for Research.

When: Thursday, December 2, 2010 • 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Where: 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library

Free and open to the public.

If you cannot attend, the event will be streamed online live

My slides can be downloaded here

Vol 3, No 2 (2010) of the Journal of Transport and Land Use is out ...

This is a Special Issue: Land Use-Transportation Modeling with UrbanSim

Articles:
Land use-transportation modeling with UrbanSim: Experiences and progress
Daniel Felsenstein, Kay Axhausen, Paul Waddell

Disaggregate models with aggregate data: Two UrbanSim applications
Zachary Patterson, Marko Kryvobokov, Fabrice Marchal, Michel Bierlaire

Modelling hedonic residential rents for land use and transport simulation while considering spatial effects
Michael Löchl, Kay W. Axhausen

Microsimulating parcel-level land use and activity-based travel: Development of a prototype application in San Francisco
Paul Waddell

Simulation of urban development in the City of Rome: Framework, methodology, and problem solving
Simone Di Zio, Armando Montanari, Barbara Staniscia

Simultaneous modeling of developer behavior and land prices in UrbanSim
Daniel Felsenstein, Eyal Ashbel

Journal of Transport and Land Use, Volume 3 Issue 1 is now out.

Papers include:

• The impact of telecommuting on residential relocation and residential preferences: A latent class modelling approach by Dick Ettema




• Equip the warrior instead of manning the equipment: Land use and transport planning support in the Netherlands by Marco te Brommelstroet




• Finding food: Issues and challenges in using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to measure food access by Ann Forsyth, Leslie Lytle, and David Van Riper




• Efficiency and equity of orbital motorways in Madrid by Juan Carlos Martin, Juan Carlos García-Palomares, Javier Gutierrez, and Concepción Román




• Evaluation of land use-transportation systems with the Analytic Network Process by Reza Banai




• Assessing the impacts of Light Rail Transit on urban land in Manila by Javier F. Pacheco-Raguz




• Discussion of "The Role of Employment Subcenters in Residential Location Decisions" between Uri Avin and Daniel A. Rodriguez

Journal of Transport and Land Use Vol 2, No 2: Access, Aging, and Impairments Part B: Accessibility Planning is now out.

Table of Contents:

Access, Aging, and Impairments Part B: Accessibility Planning
edited by Jan-Dirk Schmöcker

Implementing accessibility in municipal planning -- planners' view
by Hanna Wennberg, Agneta Ståhl, Christer Hydén

Can measuring the benefits of accessible transport enable a seamless journey?
by Alice Maynard

Assessing the extent of transport social exclusion among the elderly
by Helena Titheridge, Kamalasudhan Achuthan, Roger L Mackett, Juliet Solomon

Older people and local public transit: Mobility effects of accessibility improvements in Sweden
by Anders Wretstrand, Helena Svensson, Sofi Fristedt, Torbjörn Falkmer

Correspondence
Urban Mobility Plans and Accessibility
by Maryvonne Dejeammes

Book Reviews
Book Review of the Code and the City
by Arthur Huang

From the Ouroboros blog: Elsevier publishes fake journal for Merck

(Elsevier publishes the well-known Transportation Research parts A - F and other journals in the transportation field (Research in Transportation Economics, Transport Geography, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Transport Policy, and Journal of Air Transport Management) (disclosure: in which journals I have published and/or still have papers under review, but the long review process is another complaint)).

Read the article and the links within the article (especially The Tree of Life) for some fascinating information about the state of for-profit academic publishing.

Ouroboros writes

When it’s not gouging academic libraries with outlandish subscriptional fees, Elsevier finds other ways to boost its bottom line: Publishing bogus journals for pharmaceutical companies. From The Scientist:

Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles–most of which presented data favorable to Merck products–that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure of company sponsorship.

Another critique of Elsevier's practices from Ars Technica at:
Editorial: publishing economics harm science's credibility

The new issue of
Journal of Transport and Land Use has hit the newsstands.

Vol 2, No 1 (2009)
Table of Contents
Access, Aging, and Impairments Part A: Impairments and Behavioral Responses by Jan-Dirk Schmoecker

Access to Public Transit and Its Influence on Ridership for Older Adults in Two U.S. Cities by Daniel Baldwin Hess

Mode Choice of Older People Before and After Shopping: A Study with London Data by
Fengming Su, Jan-Dirk Schmoecker, Michael G.H. Bell

Determinants of Residential Location Decisions among the Pre-Elderly in Central Ohio by Hazel A. Morrow-Jones, Moon Jeong Kim

The Challenge of Using Public Transport: Descriptions by People with Cognitive Functional Limitations by Jenny Rosenkvist, Ralf Risser, Susanne Iwarsson, Kerstin Wendel, Agneta Stahl

Book Reviews
Review of Urban Structure Matters, review by Xueming Chen

2 years ago or so, I posted The Transportationist: The Trouble with TRB.

The Trouble has not been eliminated, and talks continue, I post an edited email from Georgina Santos on the same topic (reproduced with permission:

"Dear Eric,

Please find attached some numbers re: TRR.

Some people at the Transportation Economics Committee
Meeting suggested that the peer-review process was not
rigorous enough and the quality of the journal itself was
not great.

I don't have an opinion with respect to that issue but I
do know that TRR is not widely electronically available
and I strongly suspect that the main reason for that is
the price.

David Levinson suggested splitting the journal in different
strands. He will give you more feedback on that idea. One
important point about splitting the journal is that
university libraries may only subscribe to one or two strands
according to where their research interests are and in this
way they will make the journal more affordable to them,
as they will pay for fewer issues per year.

Lowering the price of the electronic version is another very
important strategy that could work wonders."

I would add that splitting the journal has several beneficial aspects, first is that it lowers costs. Second, for the healthy parts of the journal, they are not dragged down by the unhealthy parts, that is, there are better and worse committees of TRB, and which publish better and worse papers in TRR. Separation will allow the better sections have a higher impact factor. Finally, if they are separated, cross-citations between the several journals will be fully counted rather than considered internal self-citations.

Some data compiled by Georgina

Impact Factor
Transportation Science & Technology group of ISI
Transportation Res B-Meth 1.948, Rank 1
Transport Res Rec 0.206, Rank 17

The Price of TRR is
2009 2008
Print Only $4,475 $3,805
Print & Online $5,125 $4,450 (Online Access to 2008 Records Only)
Print & Online $6,425 $5,600 (Online Access to 2003 – 2008 Records)

In comparison

Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
2009: £137 / US $267

Transport Reviews
2009 Online Only £699.00 plus VAT $1,060
2009 Print & Online £736.00 plus VAT $1,116

Transport Policy
Online Only: $614
Print and Online $753

Transportation Research A
$1,788

One might add
Journal of Transport and Land Use
*Free*

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Fall 2008 issue of the
Journal of Transport and Land Use, available at
http://www.jtlu.org.

Table of Contents

From the Editors
David M Levinson, Kevin Krizek

Accessibility Long Term Perspectives
Kay Axhausen

Managing the Accessibility on Mass Public Transit: the Case of Hong Kong
Hong K Lo, Siman Tang, David Z.W. Wang

Seven American TODs: Good Practices for Urban Design in Transit-Oriented
Development Projects
Justin Jacobson, Ann Forsyth

Examining The Role of Urban Form In Shaping People’s Accessibility to
Opportunities: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
Darren Scott, Mark Horner

The Role of Employment Subcenters in Residential Location Decisions
Eun Joo Cho, Daniel Rodriguez, Yan Song

Equity Impacts of Transportation Improvements On Core and Peripheral Cities
Eran Leck, Shlomo Bekhor, Daniel Gat

Book Reviews
Review of Planning for Place and Plexus
Susan L Handy

The Journal of Transport and Land Use is an open-access, peer-reviewed
online journal publishing original interdisciplinary papers on the
interaction of transport and land use. Domains include: engineering,
planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science,
sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems.

Thank you for the continuing interest in our work,

David M Levinson

One week ago we announced to the world the availability of the first issue of Journal of Transport and Land Use.

In that week (July 20-26) we had 1929 visits to the site, including 6121 page views. Of those visitors, 75% were new, meaning the other 25% had visited the site previously.

Visitors came to the site from 56 different countries and every US state except Wyoming, Alabama, and Rhode Island.

Just to see how quickly people read email, the vast majority of announcement emails were sent last Monday (though after work Monday in about half the world). Most people visited on Monday or Tuesday

July 21, 712
July 22, 629
July 23, 310
July 24, 161
July 25, 83
July 26, 15
July 27, 22

which forms a very nice survival curve.

Prior to the announcement, the site was averaging 10 to 20 hits per day at random (about half of which were University of Minnesota staff futzing with the site).

Even more interesting, 613 people are now registered on http://www.jtlu.org, up from just over 200 before we launched, so another 400 people decided JTLU was interesting enough to be notified of future issues.

Announcing the
Journal of Transport and Land Use

www.jtlu.org – ISSN 1938-7849

The Journal of Transport and Land Use is a new open-access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing original inter-disciplinary papers on the interaction of transport and land use. Domains include: engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems.

Summer 2008 issue available: www.jtlu.org

Contents:

Sprawl and Accessibility

Martin Bruegmann, Professor of Art History, Architecture, and Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago

(Author of Sprawl: A Compact History)

Counterpoint: Sprawl and Accessibility

Randall Crane, UCLA Department of Urban Planning

(Co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning)

Cities as Organisms: Allometric Scaling of Urban Road Networks

Horacio Samaniego and Melanie E. Moses, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

A Use-Based Measure of Accessibility to Linear Features to Predict Urban Trail Use

John R. Ottensmann and Greg Lindsey, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Integral Cost-Benefit Analysis of Maglev Rail Projects Under Market Imperfections

J. Paul Elhorst and Jan Oosterhaven, Department of Regional Economics, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

To learn more about the Journal of Transport and Land Use, visit www.jtlu.org or contact:

David Levinson, General Editor: dlevinson@umn.edu

Kevin Krizek, Editor (Americas): krizek@colorado.edu

The Journal is housed at the University of Minnesota and sponsored by the Center for Transportation Studies.

From Ars:
Online articles lead to rapid scientific consensus, forgotten ideas

Summary of article in Science about citation rates in this modern world. The lesson, get cited quickly or fade into obscurity.