Calls for papers

 

World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research

 

Special issue on: “Next Generation of Research in Transportation and Logistics: Our Common Future”

Editor
Dr. Dawna L. Rhoades, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA

In the last several decades, the transportation and logistics field has witnessed many remarkable changes as a result of innovation in ICT that have facilitated improvements in manufacturing, data interchange, network design, intelligent transportation systems, warehousing and inventory, and cargo handling. New innovations in alternative fuels and vehicle/engine designs have also begun to change the dynamics of transportation, creating more options for transport. Furthermore, the industry is now on the verge of witnessing a sixth mode of passenger and freight transportation: commercial space.

While this rapid change creates many opportunities, there are also challenges concerning safety and security as well as the design and integration of the transportation system itself. How do governments regulate an increasingly integrated transportation system? How do they safely incorporate vertical and horizontal space launch as well as greater commercial use of unmanned systems?

The purpose of this special issue is to act as a platform for the innovative work of the next generation of researchers and scholars in transportation and logistics. It is targeted specifically at doctoral students who are at the cutting edge of transportation and logistics research. We encourage papers from all aspects of transportation and intermodal transportation where innovation has occurred or should occur.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:

• Air cargo and passenger transportation
• Alliances in the transportation industries
• Brokering services
• Cargo handling, equipment and facilities
• Electronic data Interchange
• Ground transportation
• Infrastructure development, maintenance and upgrade
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Leasing companies
• Network design
• Ocean port development, facilities and linkages
• Pipeline operations
• Railroad development and involvement in intermodal transportation
• Regulation of intermodal transportation
• Security and safety of transportation systems
• Supply chain innovation
• Sustainability/transformational innovation
• Transportation competition and cooperation
• Transportation networks
• Trends in intermodal transportation
• Unmanned systems
• Warehousing and inventory

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written)

All papers are refereed through a double blind process.

All papers must be submitted online. Please read our Submitting articles page

Prospective authors are welcome to submit an abstract to the Editor for preliminary feedback on the appropriateness of their planned manuscript. Please clearly identify your submission by using "WRITR - New Generation of Research in Transportation and Logistics - Special Issue" as the email subject line. Queries and abstracts should be emailed to the Editor at rhoadesd@erau.edu

Important Dates

Submission of full papers due before: 30 June, 2015