News

Welcome to the homepage of the IET's newest Research Journal – IET Electrical Systems in Transportation (EST).

Launching in March 2011 and published quarterly, this brand new, peer-reviewed title is accepting manuscripts for publication in Volume 1 now!

All papers published in Volume 1 (4 issues) will be made freely available via the IET Digital Library for 3 months.

Content can be accessed directly from the IET's Digital Library (IDL) as well as the IEEE's Xplore platform.

IET Electrical Systems in Transportation will be indexed in Inspec and EI Compendex from launch, and will be under consideration for inclusion in Thomson Reuters' SCI-E (ISI) index immediately post launch.

Scope

IET Electrical Systems in Transportation is aimed at all aspects of electrical power systems in modern transport applications including generation, storage, distribution and utilisation. The scope extends to all sectors of transportation: aerospace, marine (including sub-sea), automotive or land-based and rail. The central theme of the journal is to focus on the system and sub-system aspects of electrical energy including system architectures and integration, energy management, control and protection.

Papers are invited in any of the subjects combined with application areas listed below:

• Energy sources: batteries, fuel cells, generators
• Energy storage: capacitors, flywheels, SMES
• Energy management: control, protection, condition-monitoring, fault-tolerance and re-configuration
• System architectures and integration issues
• Energy distribution: cabling, connectors, switchgear
• Electro-mechanical energy conversion: motors, actuation systems
• Starter/Generator Systems
• Aerospace Electrical Technologies: civil, defence, UAVs
• Electric/ Fuel Cell/ Hybrid Vehicles
• Marine Propulsion, Drives and Power Systems: ships, submarines, submersibles
• Automotive Systems
• Railway Systems: overground, underground, light-rail, tram

Forthcoming Special Issue

Subject to receiving suitably enhanced and expanded papers, IET Electrical Systems in Transportation will publish a special issue of contributions originating from PEMD 2010. Please direct any queries regarding the paper selection process, publication timescales etc to the IET Electrical Systems in Transportation Editorial Assistant, Joanna Lawrie.

Author and Reader Benefits

• Worldwide readership and database coverage – including Inspec and EI Compendex
• Papers published in Volume 1 to be made freely available for 3 months
• All review/survey papers to be made freely available for 2 years
• All content to be available via the IEEE Xplore digital library
• Rapid times to 1st decision (typically less than 16 weeks)
• No page charges to authors
• IET Research Journals are available online (in advance of printed publication) via the IET Digital Library and IEEE Xplore

Citing this Journal

IET Electrical Systems in Transportation is usually cited by the abbreviated title 'IET Electr. Syst. Transp.'. Every article in this journal is assigned a Crossref DOI, which is displayed on the article abstract page.