Ulrich Sandten-Ma Editorial Director Dear readers, we are proud to present to you this first international issue of the journal International Transportation, published by expert verlag - the well-established German language journal Internationales Verkehrswesen, which celebrates its 77th anniversary in 2025, is published now in Tübingen. With this change, we can announce some benefits for the authors of the journals. Every scientific article is now assigned a DOI, and all authors can send us their ORCIDs for improved identification. Furthermore, we are improving the meta data management and indexing of the journals to increase impact in industry, administration and scientific communities. As you may know, the international issue of International Transportation is published once a year, so you will have plenty of time to send us your manuscripts for publication during the year. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or ideas you may have. In this issue, you will find a spotlight on logistics with perspectives from both industry and science, as well as the history of the Autostradas in Italy. We hope that you will find something of interest. This issue was published in December 2024. We wish you a happy and successful year 2025. Kind regards A warm welcome to our English-speaking readers U. Sandten-Ma © Lukas Wehner P. Sorg © Lukas Wehner Patrick Sorg Editor EDITORIAL DOI: 10.24053/ IV-2024-0071 International Transportation (76) Collection ǀ 2024 3