Emerald: the world’s leading publisher of transport books

Emerald is a long-established and independent publisher of high quality research and has been in the industry for over 42 years. The company is regarded as the leading publisher in business and management research and many of the excellent books that have been published in 2009 reflect this position.

The tremendous reputation of the books across the full range of subject areas in which we publish comes from a long history of excellent research. In total, Emerald publishes over 700 titles comprising 200 journals, nearly 300 books and more than 200 books series as well as an extensive range of online products and services. Our strongly-held philosophy is that research should be both rigorous and relevant to connect the academic world to the world of practice. Emerald's recent acquisition of books and book series consolidate our position as the world's leading publisher of management research whilst taking us in to new and exciting areas such as transport, sociology and politics.

We are also very proud to be the leading publisher of transport books and are pleased to announce some extremely exciting forthcoming titles in this area of our portfolio. During September, October and November of 2009 we have publishing four new transport titles covering a wide range of topics.

The first of these new releases published in September is the second edition of the 'Handbook of Road Safety Measures', this edition of the handbook provides a systematic overview, through state-of-the-art summaries, of current knowledge regarding the effects of 128 road safety measures. Covering all areas of road safety it is authoritative and unique in its broad coverage and serves as a comprehensive reference manual for road safety professionals worldwide. October saw the publication of 'Transport Survey Methods – Keeping Up with a Changing World', which focuses on providing potential solutions and recommendations for the world community of transport survey specialists to help them address the new challenges they face. Also published in October was 'The Expanding Sphere of Travel Behavior Research', these proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, held in Kyoto, Japan, in August 2006, examine key issues and emerging trends in the expanding field of travel behavior research. They provide authoritative, state-of-the-art assessments for graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners. In November Emerald Books has  published 'Pedestrian Behaviour: Models, Data Collection and Applications' which highlights new and innovative developments in research and modelling approaches and demonstrates the applied potential of models of pedestrian behaviour. Chapters written by leading scholars representing different modelling approaches and fields of application clearly document the analysis and modelling of pedestrian movement patterns.

These exciting new books are valuable additions to our broad portfolio of transport titles includes the Handbooks in Transport edited by David Hensher and Kenneth Button, an acclaimed set of 6 transport handbooks which form a unique reference work that comprehensively covers this many-faceted subject. Comprising specially commissioned chapters from world experts on their topics, the volumes encapsulate the essential knowledge of major areas within transportation. Recent publications also include Recent Developments in Transport Modelling edited by Moshe E. Ben-Akiva, Hilde Meersman and Eddy van de Voorde and Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport edited by Adriaan Perrels, Veli Himanen and Martin Lee-Gosselin.

For more information please visit http://books.emeraldinsight.com.

If you are interested in writing a new book in the transport portfolio and would like to discuss any aspect of the commissioning process, please contact the Commissioning Editor, Claire Ferres via email: cferres@emeraldinsight.com.