I concur with Larry—get out of your profession silo.
Twenty-five years ago, colleagues in childhood injury prevention wanted to tell traffic
engineers *why* they needed to traffic calm residential streets. We wanted to inform
engineers where motorists injure children plus that children lack the cognitive and
physiological abilities to cope with the dangers of traffic. We submitted an article to
ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) Journal. It took a long time for them to
decide and they published it online, and not in their paper journal, which was setback in
that era.
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These were new ideas 25 years ago. Injury was the primary focus then, and professional
people actually talked of discouraging, or even prohibiting children from bicycling. With
the awareness of the health and psychosocial benefits of activity, that thinking has
evolved.
Today, the concept that how we travel affects our health (and others’) is still relatively
poorly understood. So think broadly. Consider journals aimed at public works and local
governments (e.g. Governing Magazine). Find sympathetic colleagues in different fields.
The aphorism is that Moses wandered in the desert for 40 years to wait for two generations
to pass. We need to change faster.
Best wishes,Peter Jacobsen
On Feb 27, 2023, at 11:17 AM, Frank, Lawrence <lawrence.frank(a)ubc.ca> wrote:
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 NorthMC 0517, PEB La Jolla, CA 92093
Honorary Healthy Cities Professor Faculty of Architecture Hong Kong University
Affiliate Professor in Population and Public HealthUniversity of British Columbia
From: Sheryl Gross-Glaser <grossglaser(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: TRB Health and Transportation <trbhealth(a)mailman.chrispy.net>
Date: Monday, February 27, 2023 at 9:51 AM
To: TRB Health and Transportation <trbhealth(a)mailman.chrispy.net>
Subject: [TRBHealth] Re: Which Transportation Research journal for health?
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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 <matthew.raifman(a)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
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