Report for 2003 and the Start of a New Year

I would like to thank all of the associate editors and the reviewers for their work and contributions to the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering for the year 2003. There were more than 40 papers published in last year’s journal. Two to three times this many papers must be reviewed to provide our final product. Despite the number of papers we receive, we continue to successfully manage the peer review process of the papers that are submitted to us for potential publication. The volume of papers that we have received over the past year has occasionally resulted in some papers becoming delayed in the review process. By the time this editorial is published, the editorial team will have eliminated the few remaining papers in this category and will have taken steps to improve the review time for submissions.