International Journal of Vehicle Performance
- Editor in Chief
- Dr. Xiaobo Yang
- ISSN online
- 1745-3208
- ISSN print
- 1745-3194
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 2.1 (2022)

IJVP, a journal of the International Association for Vehicle Design, addresses multidisciplinary issues relevant to performance of ground vehicle systems and sub-systems for vehicle engineers/scientists. Its scope covers theoretical and experimental developments in performance analyses/assessments of ground vehicles including road, off-road, all-terrain and guided vehicles. In light of the diversified performance requirements for different vehicles, IJVP focuses on identification of measures relevant to different performance aspects of a vehicle system and new concepts/methods/pioneering techniques in analysis/assessment/improvements in vehicle performance.
Topics covered include
- Ground vehicles: performance requirements, analyses, assessments, measures
- Vehicle system performance cascading to subsystems
- Impact of component/subsystem designs
- Ride, handling, roll stability, traction/braking, directional control/guidance, NVH
- Crashworthiness/crash prevention, road-friendliness, early warning systems
- Interdisciplinary integration/cost/compatibility, multi-solution optimisation
- Driver performance, behaviour, modelling
- Standardised performance analysis methods
- Disturbances, motions, forces affecting performance
- Stability enhancement, active safety, driver assistance
- Electric/hybrid vehicles, power management systems
- Tyre/track performance, deformable/non-deformable terrains
- Racing car dynamics, handling/stability at the limits, impact of green racing
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and thermal management
- Differences among various levels of autonomous vehicles
Objectives
IJVP aims to emphasize emerging challenges and state-of-the-art developments addressing the changing needs of the society and the global vehicle industry, and to facilitate dissemination of technological advances focusing on performance measures, standardization, associated cost and compatibility compromises, and multi-solution methods in vehicle developments.
Readership
IJVP provides a leading forum for research and development engineers, standardisation bodies, regulators and policy makers, and academics in all aspects addressing the performance goals/requirements, methods of analysis/assessments, and performance enhancements of vehicle systems and sub-systems, including the human driver.
Contents
IJVP welcomes original research papers and critical reviews of topics highlighting multidisciplinary issues relevant to performance of on-road, off-road and guided vehicle systems. The journal also encourages submissions of brief technical notes highlighting theoretical or experimental developments in performance analyses of vehicle systems or subsystems. A technical note must be limited to a maximum of 2000 words.
Editor in Chief
- Yang, Xiaobo, Oshkosh Corporation, USA
(ijvpeditorgmail.com)
Associate Editors
- He, Yuping, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
- Pappalardo, Carmine Maria, University of Salerno, Italy
- Shangguan, Wen-Bin, South China University of Technology, China
- Zhang, Nong, Hefei University of Technology, China
Advisory Board
- Gillespie, Thomas D., Mechanical Simulation Corporation, USA
- Wong, Joe, Carleton University, Canada
Editorial Board Members
- Akalin, Ozgen, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- Alsaleh, Mustafa, Caterpillar Inc., USA
- Ayalew, Beshah, Clemson University, USA
- Balling, Ole, Katrinebjergvej 89G-F, Denmark
- Barton, David, University of Leeds, UK
- Beji, Lotfi, University of Evry and University of Paris-Saclay, France
- Cao, Dongpu, Cranfield University, UK
- Cheli, Federico, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Choi, Seung-Bok, Inha University, South Korea
- Cole, David, University of Cambridge, UK
- Gipser, Michael, Cosin Scientific Software AG, Germany
- Gobbi, Massimiliano, Politecnico di Milano (Technical University), Italy
- Guan, Hsin, Jilin University, China
- Hofman, Theo, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Huang, Wei, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
- Hughes, Ian, Innervycs, Chile
- Jayakumar, Paramsothy, US Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems, USA
- Kang, Ken, Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, USA
- Kluge, Torsten, dSPACE GmbH, Germany
- Lu, Jianbo, Ford Motor Company, USA
- Nishihara, Osamu, Kyoto University, Japan
- Peng, Yiqiang, Xihua University, China
- Rakheja, Subhash, Concordia University, Canada
- Reinecke, John, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
- Rybansky, Marian, University of Defence in Brno, Czech Republic
- Shabana, Ahmed A., University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Sugiyama, Hiroyuki, University of Iowa, USA
- Sujatha, C., Indian Istitute of Technology, Madras, India
- Tang, Xiaolin, Chongqing University, China
- Tasora, Alessandro, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
- Tjhung, Tana, Stellantis, USA
- Wasfy, Tamer, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, USA
- Wu, Guangqiang, Tongji University, China
- Xu, Peijun, Ebco Inc, USA
- Zhang, Xiong, General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada, Canada
- Zhao, Tianshou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
A few essentials for publishing in this journal
- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
- All our articles go through a double-blind review process.
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Journal news
International Journal of Vehicle Performance in Scimago second quartile
11 May, 2023
Inderscience is pleased to report that the International Journal of Vehicle Performance has moved to Quartile 2 in Scimago's Automotive Engineering category.
Dr. Xiaobo Yang, the journal's Editor in Chief, said, "Without the sustained efforts of IJVP's editorial board members, authors and many reviewers, the journal would not be able to make such positive progress. I sincerely thank all who have been making contributions to IJVP."