RSO is a continuously published journal that compiles issues on a semi-annual basis. Its objective is to address issues related to transportation safety through scientific articles, interviews with key sector actors, outreach materials, and opinion pieces. We are committed to the dissemination of knowledge, awareness, and prevention, which is why we have chosen the open-access model. We believe that there is no transportation safety without citizen participation and education, and through our platform, we seek to contribute by providing a space for dissemination and debate. Authors who wish to do so can submit their articles through this platform or via email at [email protected]. Additionally, this journal allows all its articles to be deposited in repositories, institutional pages, or other relevant spaces.

Digital Preservation Policy

RSO ensures the long-term preservation of the intellectual content of archived electronic documents, maintaining attributes such as their integrity, authenticity, immutability, originality, reliability, and accessibility. Our digital preservation policy is concerned with supporting and safeguarding high-quality digital resources for the future, which is why we have created a space for the journal in the Institutional Repository of the Transportation Safety Board, where all documents contained here are housed.

We understand digital preservation as an institutional responsibility and a commitment shared by all staff. Our policy is guided by the following questions: What to preserve and why? Where to preserve it? Until when? How to find it later? How to ensure it remains unchanged? And how to prevent it from becoming obsolete? Keeping this in mind, RSO follows these procedures:

• The careful storage of digital resources.
• Evaluations of preservation strategies such as data rejuvenation, consistency checks, and finally, both the migration and preservation of technology and digital archaeology.
• The encapsulation of the information to be preserved, along with descriptive metadata.
• Self-documentation, for which preserved information is encoded without reference to external documentation.
• Self-sufficiency, minimizing reliance on systems, data, or documentation. Documentation of the content type, ensuring that a future user can find what is needed or implement software that allows the preserved information to be viewed.

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

The editorial team ensures that there is no plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or any other practices contrary to the ethics of research and scientific publishing. For this, an investigative process is carried out, comparing the received material with the existing literature, a task executed with the help of anti-plagiarism software (in particular, Prepostseo and Dupli Checker). The publication adheres to the provisions of Resolution 2857/2006 from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of the Nation (Argentina). In the event of review requests or plagiarism complaints, the journal will analyze the information and make an editorial decision ensuring compliance with the aforementioned frameworks. If plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or any other unethical practices are confirmed, the article will be rejected or withdrawn if it has already been published. In both cases, the authors will be notified.

Ethics

Our editorial team is committed to the scientific community to ensure the ethics and quality of the published articles, adhering to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Academic Publishing established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). At the same time, it guarantees scientific rigor and transparency throughout the editorial process, ensuring an appropriate response to the needs of both authors and readers, guaranteeing the quality of the published manuscripts, and protecting and respecting their content and integrity. Furthermore, it promotes free access to its content, encouraging debate and cooperative disciplinary development.