Japan Bilingual Publishing Co. supports open, reproducible science. All papers must contain methods in sufficient detail so that they can be reproduced by those in the field. Some may be provided in supplementary papers.

Transportation Development Research is a Gold open access journal, which makes the final version of an article freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication.  All articles published in the Journal are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which means all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.

We encourage authors to state where data supporting the results reported in a published article can be found, and under what conditions the data can be accessed. They also include links (where applicable) to the data set.