The Open Transportation Journal is an Open Access journal, which publishes research articles, reviews/mini-reviews, letters and guest-edited single topic issues in the field of design and/or analysis of transportation systems. Areas that are covered in the journal include logistics, Powertrain design and life cycle analysis of transport emissions, vehicular design and technology, traffic modeling, transportation networks, optimization, queuing, control, statistical and other models of transportation systems, cost models and other works aiming at providing the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in the field. It also focuses on resources related to transportation safety, policy, economics, and planning.

The Open Transportation Journal, a peer-reviewed journal, is an important and reliable source of current information on developments in the field. Emphasis is placed on publishing quality papers, making them freely available to researchers worldwide.