The journal Transportation focuses on issues of relevance to the formulation of policy, the preparation and evaluation of plans, and the day-to-day operational management of transport systems. It concerns itself with the policies and systems themselves, as well as with their impacts on and relationships with other aspects of the social, economic and physical environment.Although the transportation needs of cities and nations around the world differ in detail, there is much benefit to be derived by sharing research findings and practical experience. Transportation lends itself to information exchange by publishing carefully selected papers which advance the international fund of knowledge. Transportation is relevant to all parts of the world: industrialized, newly industrialized or developing. Its mission is simply to help improve the transportation of people and goods by bringing an improved understanding of the subject to the theorists, practitioners and policy makers who study it.

《運輸》雜志關注與政策制定、計劃編制和評估以及運輸系統日常運營管理相關的問題。它關注政策和系統本身，以及它們對社會、經濟和物理環境的影響和與其他方面的關系。盡管世界各地城市和國家的交通需求在細節上有所不同，但通過分享研究成果和實踐經驗，可以獲得很多益處。運輸業通過出版精心挑選的論文促進了國際知識基金的發展，從而促進了信息交流。交通運輸與世界各地有關：工業化、新興工業化或發展中。它的任務只是通過向研究這個問題的理論家、實踐者和政策制定者提供對這個問題的更好理解，幫助改善人和貨物的運輸。