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Center for Transportation Studies Launches New Journal

What: The Journal of Transport and Land Use

Who: Center for Transportation Studies (CTS)

Contact: David Levinson, general editor, dlevinson@umn.edu

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (7/22/2008) The Journal of Transport and Land Use (www.jtlu.org) is a new open-access, peer-reviewed online journal publishing original interdisciplinary papers on the interaction of transport and land use. Domains include: engineering, planning, modeling, behavior, economics, geography, regional science, sociology, architecture and design, network science, and complex systems. The journal is housed at the University of Minnesota and sponsored by the Center for Transportation Studies.

Subscriptions and submissions are free. Register with JTLU to be notified when new issues are published.

Summer 2008 issue contents (issue available at www.jtlu.org):

Sprawl and Accessibility
Robert Bruegmann, Professor of Art History, Architecture, and Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Author of Sprawl: A Compact History)

Counterpoint: Sprawl and Accessibility
Randall Crane, UCLA Department of Urban Planning
(Co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning)

Cities as Organisms: Allometric Scaling of Urban Road Networks
Horacio Samaniego and Melanie E. Moses, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

A Use-Based Measure of Accessibility to Linear Features to Predict Urban Trail Use
John R. Ottensmann and Greg Lindsey, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Integral Cost-Benefit Analysis of Maglev Rail Projects Under Market Imperfections
J. Paul Elhorst and Jan Oosterhaven, Department of Regional Economics, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

To learn more about the Journal of Transport and Land Use, visit www.jtlu.org or contact:

David Levinson, General Editor: dlevinson@umn.edu
Kevin Krizek, Editor (Americas): krizek@colorado.edu

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