Communications in Transportation Research publishes peer-reviewed high-quality research representing important advances of significance to emerging transport systems. The mission is to provide fair, fast, and expert peer review to authors and insightful theories, impactful advances, and interesting discoveries to readers. We welcome submissions of significant and general topics, of inter-disciplinary nature (transport, civil, control, artificial intelligence, social science, psychological science, medical services, etc.), of complex and inter-related system of systems, of strong evidence of data strength, of visionary analysis and forecasts towards the way forward, and of potentially implementable and utilizable policies/practices. To be more specific, the scope of expected submissions includes but is not limited to:

• Interactions among transportation systems and other systems
• Integrations of emerging technologies with transportation systems
• Big data analytics in transportation area
• Advances and discoveries in transportation area
• Forward-looking judgment for future transportation systems
• Emerging technologies/products and their impact on transportation
• Novel transportation modes and associated analytics
• Governmental initiated transportation policies and impact analysis
• Mobility as a service
• Field experiments of emerging transportation technologies
• Transportation electrification, automation, and connectivity

Communications in Transportation Research is a fully open access journal. It is published by Tsinghua University Pres, and co-sponsored by the State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy (Tsinghua University) and China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association (ITS China). 

Tsinghua University & China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association

Communications in Transportation Research will cease to be published by Elsevier after the completion of Volume 5 (2025). From Volume 6 (2026), the journal will be published by Tsinghua University Press on the SciOpen platform with the official journal website at https://www.sciopen.com/journal/2097-5023. We kindly request that all new manuscript submissions from September 11, 2025, be made through the journal’s submission system at https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/commtr. For any submission-related inquiries, please contact the Editorial Office at commtr_e@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.