Help to shape the Journal

Letters to the Editor and Commentaries
We welcome your letters to the editor, as well as comments on articles or current issues and problems in the domain of the journal. Comments can be addressed either privately to the editors (mailto:editor@newmobility.org) -- or alternatively placed in front of the the World Transport Forum as a whole (mailto:WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com) for open discussion and eventual further comment. In submitting items to the attention of the group, take care to provide a good crisp mnemonic to guide the discussions, since others may join in with additional comments or qualifications.

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Contribute articles
Contributions to the journal are welcome. Whether you are a novice author or an experienced one, the Editor in Chief would like to invite you to consider sharing your thoughts and experiences with others like yourself. We can promise a considered and constructive review of your article and, for contributions deemed suitable, publication in the Journal.

Please read through the Contributor Guidelines section here for further background and details, and if you find that to your liking feel free to contact John Whitelegg, the Editor, who will be pleased to offer comments on drafts, work in progress, or ideas which you believe could be made into an article.

Also if you have ideas or proposals for articles or topics, we will be pleased to hear from you.

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Book and Report Reviews
We welcome your reviews of current books of interest to our readers, and of official and other reports and documents that might benefit from open discussion by qualified international professionals. Contact us first with a short note outlining your intended contribution, so that we can agree on format and length in advance, thus sparing you time and trouble in getting your good materials into print.

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Special and Joint Editions
The concept of working closely with other groups and events to develop focused special editions is one that has been important in the past when the Journal was a paper product, but in its new electronic life is one to which we are giving far more emphasis. For more on this, please go to the Special Editions section here.

Visiting Editor Functions
Each special edition is developed under the leadership of a Visiting Editor, who works closely in concert with both the Founding Editor of the Journal (John Whitelegg) and the Managing Editor of the electronic edition (Eric Britton). There are a number of tasks that each team needs to deal with at the planning and support levels, so that the Visiting Editor can proceed freely and with the necessary independence and dispatch.

The starting point in this process is to recall that the function of each World Transport number is to present a collection of articles that are not only appropriately focused and of high quality, but also that taken as a whole are agreeably and reasonably quickly accessible. For this reason, a typical issue runs no longer that fifty or sixty pages in all, housing an average of six to eight articles, each of which should be not only topical and to the point, but also a good read.

Special issues furthermore usually are trying to make some sort of point, and it is the task of the Visiting Editor to make sure that the issue as a whole indeed accomplishes this. One of the means in which she can ensure this, in addition to the well thought out, cooperative choice of authors and topics, is by early in the process preparing a "Beta version" of the final visiting editorial which can serve to orient the activities of the individual authors. Of course this guiding early work is carried out in partnership with our World Transport team as indicated here, as is the process of interim and final review or articles .

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