Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport

About Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport — Journal Profile

The Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport is the transport journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the United Kingdom’s professional institution for civil engineers, founded in 1818. It is a peer-reviewed journal for transport engineering research and practice — roads, railways, pavements, traffic, transport planning and policy — published in the ICE Proceedings family. This Journals World record gives its publisher as Thomas Telford Ltd., the institution’s former publishing arm, and its ISSNs as 0965-092X (print) and 1751-7710 (online). The journal is now presented by Emerald Publishing on the ICE Virtual Library / Emerald platform, with ICE Publishing as the imprint named in its recent issues, and it continues to publish new volumes: volume 179 is the 2026 volume, following volume 178 in 2025 and volume 177 in 2024. Its standard citation form is Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport, with article DOIs carrying the prefix 10.1680, the institution’s publisher prefix.

A note on records is needed at the start, because this site carries two records for this journal. The other record (post 23156, slug proceedings-of-the-institution-of-civil-engineers-transport) is a short, older record carrying the same two ISSNs — 1751-7710 and 0965-092X — and an h-index figure of 31. This record (post 358419) is the one profiled here. The pair is reported with this profile as a confirmed duplicate for the site’s merge queue; the journal itself, of course, is a single title, and nothing in this profile should be read as describing two different publications.

Quick facts

• Full title: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport (short title: Transport)
• Owner: Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), London, United Kingdom
• Publisher on this record: Thomas Telford Ltd. (historic ICE publishing arm); current platform: Emerald Publishing / ICE Virtual Library, imprint ICE Publishing
• Print ISSN: 0965-092X
• Online ISSN: 1751-7710
• Coverage on the older site record: from 1992; volumes continue to volume 179 (2026)
• Frequency: Bi-monthly in recent listings
• Field: Transport engineering — highways, rail, pavements, traffic, planning and policy
• DOI prefix: 10.1680
• Status: Active and publishing

The ICE Proceedings family and this journal’s place in it

The Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers is one of the longest-running engineering publication lines in the world, rooted in the institution’s nineteenth-century practice of printing papers read and discussed before its members. In the modern era the single Proceedings divided into subject journals, each serving a branch of civil engineering practice — structures and buildings, geotechnical engineering, water management, municipal engineering, energy, and, from the early 1990s, transport as a subject in its own right. That origin shapes the journal’s character to this day. An ICE journal is written by and for a profession, not only for an academy: papers are expected to be useful to engineers who design, build, operate and maintain real transport systems, and the readership named in recent editorials — researchers, practitioners and decision-makers — reflects that triple audience.

The publisher line needs one careful sentence, because it changes across the journal’s life and confuses cataloguers. Thomas Telford Ltd., named on this record, was the institution’s publishing company and published the journal for many years; copyright lines in issues from the 2000s read “Thomas Telford Ltd.” ICE’s journals were later published as ICE Publishing, and the journal is now hosted and presented by Emerald Publishing, whose platform carries current issues and whose imprint lines appear alongside the institution’s. All three names can therefore be correct for different periods of the same journal. A citation is not wrong because it names one rather than another; what identifies the journal is the title together with the ISSN pair and the 10.1680 DOI prefix.

Scope: transport engineering in the round

A 2009 editorial, welcoming readers to that year’s August issue, described the readership as covering transport planning and infrastructure across roads and railways, air and water, from both industry and academia, and set the panel the challenge of drawing papers from across all those strands over a year’s issues. The journal has broadly kept that promise. Its scope includes highway and pavement engineering — pavement design, materials, management systems and deterioration; railway engineering — track, ballast, slab track reliability, planning and operations; traffic engineering — junctions, signals, conflict and safety analysis, modelling and simulation; transport planning — demand, pricing, public transport, active travel and land-use interaction; and transport policy and economics, including charging schemes, equity effects and governance.

Recent issues show the scope updating itself without abandoning its base. The second issue of 2025, introduced by an editorial describing the journal as a globally recognised venue for transportation research, contained work on correlated parking and charging behaviour among electric-vehicle users in Changshu City, China; supervised machine learning for road-traffic crash prediction; optimisation of intersections on real-world traffic conditions; welfare effects of pricing in commuter and interregional rail; a hybrid reliability method for slab track; and harvesting electricity from road-traffic noise. Set beside the journal’s older staple content — pavement-management systems in Portugal, track replacement on London Underground lines, vehicle emissions — the continuity and the shift are both visible: the physical infrastructure remains central, but data, electrification and pricing now stand beside it as first-class topics.

Safety is a persistent strand. A recent systematic review in the journal examined infrastructure measures for pedestrian safety at unsignalised crossings, grouping interventions into engineering modifications, lighting, signage and smart technologies, and urged the use of structured assessment frameworks in planning. Work on right-turning vehicle conflicts at unsignalised T-junctions in India combined post-encroachment-time measurement with machine-learning thresholds and logit modelling to identify where severe conflicts concentrate. Papers of this kind illustrate the journal’s method: a practical problem, field data, an analytical model, and recommendations addressed to the engineers and authorities who can act on them.

Article types and editorial character

The journal publishes full research and practice papers, editorials that introduce and summarise each issue, book reviews, and discussion contributions — the ICE tradition of published discussion, in which readers respond to a paper and authors reply, survives in the Proceedings culture and is part of how the institution has always tested engineering claims. Issue editorials are more informative than in many journals: editors summarise the papers, state the themes they see, and occasionally use the space to invite work in under-represented areas, as the 2009 editorial did, or to mark themed collections, as the 2016 rail-themed edition produced with the Rail Research UK Association did. That edition, drawn from a Rail Research UK Association conference and put through the journal’s usual peer review, was organised under railway planning, management and operation; railway sustainability and energy; and vehicle–infrastructure interface — a tidy map of the rail side of the scope.

Authorship is international, and recent volumes draw heavily on research from China, India, Türkiye and elsewhere as well as the United Kingdom, while the journal’s centre of gravity stays with the institution in London and with problems stated in engineering terms. Case studies of real schemes — congestion charging preparations in Cambridge and Dublin, travel-demand measures and their effects on different communities, decentralised road administration in Nepal, Uganda and Zambia — sit alongside laboratory and modelling work, and the journal’s book reviews keep practising engineers in touch with the policy literature of their field.

Indexing and metrics — what can be stated

The journal is indexed in Scopus and in the engineering abstracting services that cover civil engineering, and its articles are assigned DOIs under the 10.1680 prefix on the Emerald / ICE Virtual Library platform. Metric figures must be quoted with their source and year, because they move. A recent aggregator summary based on Scopus data gives a CiteScore of 2.6 and a SNIP of 0.54 for the journal and describes its SJR standing as Q2, while this site’s older duplicate record lists an h-index of 31 and labels the journal Q3 — a difference that is not a contradiction so much as a reminder that quartiles are assigned per subject category and per year, and an engineering journal can sit in different quartiles in different categories at the same time. Neither figure should be treated as a permanent property of the journal. Authors who need a metric for a promotion or funding case should take it from the current Scopus or SCImago listing on the day they need it and cite that source.

What can be said without a metric is that the journal offers something many higher-scoring transport titles do not: direct address to practising engineers and to a professional institution’s membership, in a publication line that clients, authorities and senior engineers actually read. For applied work whose value is adoption — a pavement-management method, a junction treatment, a pricing analysis a city might use — that readership can matter more than a quartile.

Publishing in the journal

Submissions are made through the journal’s current route on its Emerald / ICE Virtual Library presence, and authors should follow the author instructions given there, since requirements, article types and any charges are stated on that live page and are not reproduced here — a fee or timetable that is not stated on the official page is not publicly disclosed in a form this profile can responsibly quote, and none is invented here. In substance, a successful submission to this journal usually has four features: a transport problem that a practitioner or authority faces; data, a model or a documented case adequate to the claims; results expressed so that an engineer can use them, with design, operational or policy implications stated explicitly; and an honest account of limits — where the case sits, what was not measured, and how far the conclusions travel. Papers that are purely algorithmic, with a transport dataset used only as decoration, tend to fit modelling journals better; papers that report what was built, measured or decided, and what followed, are this journal’s natural content.

Peer review is the journal’s stated standard — themed-issue editors have noted explicitly that selected conference papers were subject to the journal’s usual rigorous peer-review process — and the editorial panel structure, with a chair and an advisory panel drawn from the field, is the traditional ICE arrangement. Early-career engineers should note the professional dimension: publishing in an institution journal is visible to the profession as well as to citation databases, and ICE papers are a recognised currency in UK civil engineering careers.

Citing and finding articles

Cite the journal with its full title or the established abbreviation for ICE titles, the year, volume and issue, page range, and the DOI. Volume-to-year pairing is a useful check: volume 162 is 2009, volume 175 is 2022, volume 178 is 2025 and volume 179 is 2026. The DOI prefix 10.1680 identifies the institution’s journals generally, so the journal title element of a citation still matters — several ICE journals share that prefix. Older articles are held in the same platform archive under earlier DOI suffix styles (for example 10.1680/tran.2009.162.3.125 for the 2009 editorial discussed above), and both styles resolve to the same platform. If a reference gives the publisher as Thomas Telford, ICE Publishing or Emerald for different papers in the same list, that is expected, for the reasons given in the history section, and is not a sign of error.

Reading the journal’s evidence as an engineer

Transport papers in this journal often combine a case, a dataset and a recommendation, and they should be read in that order. Begin with the place and the problem: a pavement study from one climate and traffic mix, or a junction study from one driving culture, does not transfer automatically to another, and good papers in this journal say so. Look next at the data period and the measurement method — traffic counts, post-encroachment times, pavement surveys, charging records — because the recommendation inherits every limit of the measurement behind it. Then examine the model: whether it is a simulation, a statistical fit or a before-and-after comparison, what it assumes about driver and traveller behaviour, and whether the authors tested how sensitive their answer is to those assumptions. The 2025 issue’s range, from electric-vehicle charging behaviour to slab-track reliability, shows how wide the modelling repertoire has become, but the discipline is unchanged: the paper must end with something an engineer, operator or authority can do differently on Monday morning.

For students, the journal is also a model of professional writing in engineering. Papers are expected to define terms a mixed readership can share, to show their workings, and to separate what was observed from what is advised. The editorials and discussions reinforce that culture: an editorial frames why an issue’s papers matter together, and discussion contributions let other engineers test a claim from their own practice. Reading a paper together with any published discussion of it is one of the fastest ways to learn how experienced practitioners argue about evidence.

Relationship to other ICE and transport titles

Within the ICE family, Transport neighbours Municipal Engineer, which covers local-authority and urban services; Engineering Sustainability; and Urban Design and Planning — cross-references between the journals appear in the platform’s “Elsewhere in ICE Proceedings” features, and transport readers are routinely pointed to planning and municipal papers that bear on their work. Outside the family, the journal sits among transport titles that lean more toward economics, planning theory or pure modelling. Its comparative ground is the engineering middle: design, operation, maintenance and delivery, reported for a professional readership. Authors choosing between venues should ask where their intended reader sits — a theoretical advance belongs with a theory audience, a delivery lesson belongs here.

Frequently asked questions

Is Transport still publishing?
Yes. Recent volumes include volume 178 (2025) and volume 179 (2026), presented by Emerald Publishing as the ICE journal Transport.

What are its ISSNs?
Print 0965-092X and online 1751-7710, as recorded on this Journals World record and shown on the publisher’s article pages.

Who publishes it — Thomas Telford, ICE Publishing or Emerald?
All three names belong to its history and present. This record names Thomas Telford Ltd., the institution’s former publishing arm; the imprint became ICE Publishing; current issues are hosted and presented by Emerald Publishing on the ICE Virtual Library.

What subjects does it cover?
Transport engineering broadly: highways and pavements, railways and track, traffic operations and safety, transport planning, pricing and policy, and newer data-driven and electrification topics, for researchers, practitioners and decision-makers.

What is its quartile?
It varies by category, source and year; a Scopus-based summary describes Q2 by SJR while this site’s older record says Q3, with an h-index of 31. Check the current Scopus or SCImago listing for the category relevant to you.

Why are there two records for it on this site?
A duplicate: post 23156 is a thin older record with the same ISSNs; this post, 358419, carries the full profile. The pair is flagged in this profile’s report for the merge queue.

A final note on the record

Journals World readers should use this profile as the full account of the journal and treat the older short record as a duplicate entry point to the same title, pending the site’s merge process. Both records agree on the facts that identify the journal — its title and its ISSN pair, 0965-092X and 1751-7710 — and this profile adds the publishing history that explains why Thomas Telford, ICE Publishing and Emerald all appear in connection with one continuous journal.

Sources and verification

This profile is anchored to the Journals World record for this post (title as shown, publisher Thomas Telford Ltd., ISSNs 0965092X and 17517710, and the ICE Virtual Library link shown in the original record) and to the duplicate record 23156 (same ISSNs, coverage from 1992, h-index 31). It is checked against the publisher platform: Emerald / ICE Virtual Library article pages showing print ISSN 0965-092X and online ISSN 1751-7710, the 2009 editorial describing readership and scope, the 2022 editorial in volume 175, and the 2025 editorial in volume 178 describing the journal’s aims and contents; and against a Scopus-based aggregator summary for recent volume, frequency and CiteScore context. No article-processing charge, acceptance rate or review timetable is stated, because none was verified from the journal’s official author pages for this profile.