The Journal maintains Open-Access orientation and welcomes articles that push the frontiers of knowledge and understanding about Nigeria’s transportation and logistics industries. It also strives to advance solutions to the problems of nexus between the society and academia in aid of policy-making. Moreover, it encourages students’ participatory research projects to achieve a hands-on approach to education and learning as well as supporting core researchers to publish works that promote inter-disciplinary and global approaches.

As a peer-reviewed journal, UJTL will accept studies with lucid concepts and well-operationalized research findings in all the modes of transportation and across the entire value chain of the logistics industry, with Nigerian and foreign case studies encouraged. Original manuscripts which have not been published elsewhere or accepted for publication in other publications shall be accepted, as research papers, reviews, surveys, case studies, and commentaries. 

General areas of interest:

  • All aspects of road, rail, maritime, aviation and pipeline transportation
  • All aspects of local and foreign freight forwarding and logistics activities 
  • Emerging transportation modes and businesses
  • Clean energy application in transportation modes applicable to Nigeria or Africa
    • Evolution of transportation and logistics industries in Nigeria and Africa
    • Safety imperatives in current and anticipated modes of transportation and logistics
    • Environmental issues and their management for emerging economies 
    • The role of politics, government and legislation in development or evolution of transport modes and modalities
    • Transport planning and conceptualization in Nigeria and African countries
    • Inter-modalism/multimodalism in Nigeria’s peculiar economic status
    • Modern road furniture such as flyovers in Nigerian cities: the theory and the practice
    • Inland water transportation models 
    • Non-motorized transport systems
    • Effect of Climate Change Impacts on transportation
    • Impact of transportation on the economic growth of emerging economies
    • SDGs for the transport and logistics sector
    • The role of transportation for a vibrant tourism sector
    • Adaptable non-polluting transportation models
    • Electric vehicles sustainability in less developed countries
    • Impact of pandemic diseases on transportation 
    • The use of low-sulphur fuels in transportation vehicles
    • Mass transport schemes and physically-challenged persons:
    • Long-distance passenger and goods carriage: innovations and standards
    • Inland container ports and the challenges of intermodal transport deficiencies

Submission Guidelines

  • Authors are invited to submit their abstracts and articles by email to: emanager@ujtl.unilag.edu.ng
  • Manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer-review editorial process.
  •  Article length should be between 5000 to 8500 words, Times New Roman, font size 12.
  • Articles should include the Title, Author(s) with affiliation/email address, Abstract (200 words), and Keywords (5 words).
  • The general format for submissions is as follows: Introduction, Body of chapter, and References (in alphabetical order).
  • References must be cited in-text and vice-versa, APA style 7th edition.
  • Tables, figures, and illustrations should be numbered, captioned, and placed serially in their places within the body of the work.

Contact address:

The Editor, UNILAG  Journal of Transport and Logistics,
Department of Geography,
University of  Lagos, Akoka Yaba,
Lagos  Nigeria.

Email: emanager@ujtl.unilag.edu.ng

Editor: +2348072182635

Online Journal Manager/ Managing Editor: +2348033378735