[TRBHealth] Re: Which Transportation Research journal for health?

Hi Matt – The Journal of Transport and Health publishes many excellent papers crossing the two fields but is not indexed in PubMed, so papers published there may not be found by much of its public health audience. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-transport-and-health/about… Regards, Andy Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD, MPH Affiliate Professor Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health Dept. of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments University of Washington, Seattle Book: <http://www.makinghealthyplaces.com/> http://www.makinghealthyplaces.com (Second Edition now published) From: Frank, Lawrence &lt;lawrence.frank(a)ubc.ca&gt; Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 10:01 AM To: TRB Health and Transportation &lt;trbhealth(a)mailman.chrispy.net&gt; Subject: [TRBHealth] Re: Which Transportation Research journal for health? Hi Matt: Many here can comment about where to publish, but nearly all of the transportation journals regularly publish articles on health related work now. We have published in nearly all of them and in some quite a lot. Editors change over time and some are more and less receptive to a given style of research and perhaps even specific researchers. If you have a few papers; perhaps put one in transportation, one in urban planning, and another in public health for exposure and coverage. Look at the CV’s of those that have been at this for a while to see which journals they tend to publish most recently to give you a sense of receptivity of current editors. Sincerely, Larry Dr. Lawrence Frank, Professor UC San Diego - Dept of Urban Studies and Planning Social Sciences Public Engagement Building (PEB) 9625 Scholars Drive North MC 0517, PEB La Jolla, CA 92093 Honorary Healthy Cities Professor Faculty of Architecture Hong Kong University Affiliate Professor in Population and Public Health University of British Columbia From: Sheryl Gross-Glaser &lt;grossglaser(a)gmail.com <mailto:grossglaser@gmail.com> > Reply-To: TRB Health and Transportation &lt;trbhealth(a)mailman.chrispy.net <mailto:trbhealth@mailman.chrispy.net> > Date: Monday, February 27, 2023 at 9:51 AM To: TRB Health and Transportation &lt;trbhealth(a)mailman.chrispy.net <mailto:trbhealth@mailman.chrispy.net> > Subject: [TRBHealth] Re: Which Transportation Research journal for health? [CAUTION: Non-UBC Email] Hi Matt, I am mostly retired from the transportation world, but I will share what are solely my own opinions. While there is lots of data about the health benefits of walking and biking as exercise; and, in contrast, the terrible health effects of a sedentary life that involves just sitting in a car, there is insufficient transportation-focused public health research and especially outreach about how the ordinary, daily practices of how we transport ourselves from place to place have major health ramifications. If we think about the major gains in health due to banning cigarette and alcohol ads on TV and other media, as well as complementary public health ads, we would do well to take a similar approach around transportation. Banning car and truck ads, which only show people traveling in unrealistic settings (such as empty city streets or in pristine mountain settings) could help steer us away from poor health and 30-to-40,000 road deaths per year in the US alone. Well that is my rant. I wish you the best of luck in your studies. This is important work that you are doing. Enjoy a lovely afternoon, Sheryl On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:03 PM Matthew A. Raifman &lt;matthew.raifman(a)gmail.com <mailto:matthew.raifman@gmail.com> > wrote: Hi all, Hope you are doing well. I'm a PhD Candidate in Environmental Health at Boston University and looking for some insight on which Transportation Research journal (parts A-D) is most interested in transport and health research as I don't see health in any of their descriptions. Separately, I do find it interesting that health is missing. I'm preparing one of my dissertation aims for publication and it is focused on the health benefits of increasing walking and cycling activity in the Greater Boston area using a k-means clustering approach on top of travel survey data and health impact assessment. Thanks for your thoughts! Alternatively the Journal of Transport & Health seems quite appropriate for this research, but I thought I'd inquire about TRB publications here as well. Best, Matt -- ----- Matthew Raifman <https://medium.com/@mraify> Medium | <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mraifman/> LinkedIn | <https://twitter.com/mraify> Twitter | <https://www.instagram.com/matthewraifman/> Instagram You received this because you are subscribed to the mailing list maintained by the TRB Health committee (AME70). To unsubscribe, learn more about the list or visit the archives see https://mailman.chrispy.net/postorius/lists/trbhealth.mailman.chrispy.net/ To connect with committee visit: https://trbhealth.org