I am writing to you in your role as a committee chairman or
section head at TRB. The Bureau of
Transportation Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s
Research and Innovative Technology Administration, is reintroducing the Journal
of Transportation and Statistics (JT&S), a journal that serves the
transportation community by increasing understanding of the role of
transportation in society, its function in the economy, and its interactions
with the environment. The issue that we
plan to publish during the first quarter of 2013 will focus on transportation
safety. Previous issues of the JT&S
can be found at http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transportation_and_Statistics/ .
In response to an earlier solicitation for submissions to
the JT&S we received primarily articles focusing on highway safety. There were virtually no publishable articles
submitted on either rail or transit safety.
We would like the safety issue to be more diverse than simply highway, and
hope that it will include at least one article each focused on rail, air,
marine, transit, and cross-cutting industry safety issues. Are you aware of any members of your
committee who have unpublished work in one of these areas for which they may be
seeking a venue to publish? If so, we
would greatly appreciate it if you could pass along information on our search
for submissions to the JT&S. We
would also be very appreciative if you could advise your membership in general
of our search for articles for the Journal.
Manuscript guidelines for potential authors can be found at
http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transportation_and_statistics/guidelines.html
. Since we are aiming to get the Safety
Issue published within the next few
months, I would ask anybody with an article to submit to contact me as soon as
possible to let me know their article and submission plans.
Thank you very much in advance for your help. If you (or potential authors) have any
questions, I can be reached either by email or phone at the address shown
below. Thank you again.
Bruce Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Transportation Statistics
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
USDOT/RITA , Room 34-438
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
(202) 366-4417
