Instructions for Paper Submission
Abstracts for papers have been accepted by Conference Program Committee.
Major topics include:
- Models for transportation, port, air, intermodal operations, impact analysis
- Port operations, productivity
- Trucking, air, rail economics, productivity, labor issues
- Local and regional environmental externalities: congestion, air quality, etc.
- Policy and institutional issues in urban goods movement
- Security/vulnerability of goods movement infrastructure
Paper Submission Requirements
- Authors must submit completed papers by December 15, 2005 .
- Best papers will be selected for possible inclusion in a special journal issue.
- Papers must follow the paper format as indicated below:
Paper format:
- Length limitation: 10,000 words or less
- Typed in double- space with margins of at least one inch all around
- All tables, figures, diagrams and maps should be included in the
paper text
- A limited number of explanatory footnotes are permissible, and they
should be indicated serially within each articles by subscripts
1,2,3 etc. The notes themselves should be listed at the end
of the paper text
- An abstract not exceeding 120 words should be submitted
- References should be indicated in the text by the surnames of the
author(s) with the year of publication as shown below. References
to more than one publication by the same author in the same year should
be distinguished alphabetically with a, b, c, etc. The
abbreviated author and the date reference should be placed in parentheses
unless the name forms part of the text. The relevant page(s) may
be given if necessary. Examples:
(Ball, 1998), (Edwards , 2002a), (Haughton and Hunter, 1994, p. 130) demonstrated
that..
If no person is named as author, the name of the appropriate body should
be used: e.g. (US Bureau of the Census, 1996).
The full list of references should be typed in alphabetical order, double-spaced,
on a separate sheet at the end of the article, in form of the following examples:
JARGOWSKY, P. (2002) Sprawl, concentration of poverty, and urban inequality,
in: G. Squires (Ed.) Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences
and Policy Responses, pp.39-72. Washington, DC: The
Urban Institute
YEOH, B. S.A. (2004) Cosmopolitanism and its Exclusions in Singapore, Urban
Studies, 41, pp. 2431- 2445.
Submit papers to: atraver@uces.csulb.edu and giuliano@usc.edu
More information:
Genevieve Giuliano
National Urban Freight Conference Chair
METRANS Transportation Center
School of Policy, Planning and Development
650 Childs Way
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626
Phone: 213-821-1025
Fax: 213-740-0001
Email: giuliano@usc.edu
