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

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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

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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

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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*

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We are pleased to announce the Journal of Transport and Land Use.

What, you ask? Another journal amidst an already overcrowded field?

Yes, we respond enthusiastically! Several journals touch on the interaction of transport and land use; however, they do so peripherally. This new venue puts both transport and land use front and center. We seek to be the leading outlet for research at the interdisciplinary intersection of these two domains, including work from the domains of engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems.

The Journal of Transport and Land Use (JTLU) will be peer-reviewed, web-based, open-content, subscription-free, and free to contribute. All of this is enabled by support from the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota, where the journal will be housed. The advantages of this new journal and new process are several:

1. With a rigorous peer-review process, only quality papers that meet scientific standards will be published within the journal.

2. By being web-based (and web-only), we reduce costs significantly compared with paper journals. Web-based publication allows a much faster turnaround time than paper publication. Our goal is six weeks between submission and first reviews returned to the author. Being web-based also allows the inclusion of full color graphics and multi-media content, and the inclusion of datasets with the publication.

3. By being open-content, papers published in JTLU can be freely distributed (with attribution), increasing the value of papers published in the journal, and increasing their likelihood of being used in course readers and being read by the public.

4. By being subscription-free, we overcome a fundamental problem of today's expensive journals published by for-profit publishers, which many libraries can no longer subscribe to.

5. By being free-to-contribute, we overcome the burden of the open-content journals that charge the authors to publish their paper.

We are now soliciting papers covering topics at the intersection of transport and land use. Details about the journal, its editorial process, and paper submission can be found at the journal’s website http://www.jtlu.org .

If you are interested in organizing a special issue, please contact one of the editors.

There will be a meeting at the World Conference on Transport Research in Berkeley to discuss the journal, contact the editors for details.

We look forward to any comments, questions, or suggestions you may have.

Sincerely,

David Levinson and Kevin Krizek

David Levinson
Richard P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation Engineering
Director Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems (Nexus) Research Group
University of Minnesota (612) 625-6354
dlevinson@umn.edu
http://nexus.umn.edu

Kevin J. Krizek
Associate Professor, Urban Planning & Civil Engineering
University of Minnesota (612) 625 - 7318
http://www.kevinjkrizek.org

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