Transport Reviews Special Issue Call for papers

Special Issue: The 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road: Challenges and Opportunities for Transport Management and Practice
Deadline: 20 January 2017

The new Maritime Silk Road is expected to exert multi-dimensional impacts on transport management and practice. This thematic special issue aims to gather a collection of review papers in targeted topics which are original and timely.

– Review of regional and international cooperation in the new Maritime Silk Road
– Review of cross-border transport policies in the new Maritime Silk Road
– The relationship between the new Maritime Silk Road and ASEAN economic integration
– Maritime supply chain research in the OBOR
– Maritime cluster development in the OBOR
– Review of free trade zone policies in the context of the new Maritime Silk Road
– Challenges and opportunities for transport Public-Private Partnerships as the new Maritime Silk Road develops
– The new Maritime Silk Road’s impact on green shipping and port management
– The new Maritime Silk Road’s impact on sustainable development in maritime cities
– The new Maritime Silk Road’s impact on dry port systems
– Review of maritime regulations and policies influencing the new Maritime Silk Road
– Review of intermodal transport management and practice influencing the new Maritime Silk Road
– Review of transport investment policy and practice influencing the new Maritime Silk Road
– Maritime risk and resilience and implications for the OBOR
– Maritime safety and security and implications for the OBOR
– Northern Sea Route in the context of the OBOR
– Transport stakeholder management in the development of the new Maritime Silk Road
– Proactive shipping management in the development of the new Maritime Silk Road
– Review of port devolution and governance models and implications for the OBOR
– Port planning and its coordination with the OBOR
– Transport technology innovation management and practice and their influence on the new – Maritime Silk Road
– Other relevant topics relating to challenges and opportunities for transport management and practice

Submission guidelines and associated international conference
This is an open call for papers. In addition, the associated conference is the International Conference on the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road for Transportation and Global Supply Chain, which will be held on 1-2 December, 2016.

Best papers will be selected to be considered for publication in the Special Issue.

All submissions are subject to the journal’s standard peer review process. Please refer to the journal’s website for author guidelines (link).

Guest Editor: Jasmine Siu Lee Lam, Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (sllam@ntu.edu.sg)

Guest Editor: Kevin Cullinane, Professor, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (kevin.cullinane@gu.se)

Guest Editor: Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Professor, School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Australia (taewoo.lee@rmit.edu.au)