The purpose of Traffic Injury Prevention is to bridge the disciplines of medicine, engineering, public health and traffic safety in order to foster the science of traffic injury prevention. The archival journal focuses on research, interventions and evaluations within the areas of traffic safety, crash causation, injury prevention and treatment.

General topics within the journal's scope are driver behavior, road infrastructure, emerging crash avoidance technologies, crash and injury epidemiology, alcohol and drugs, impact injury biomechanics, vehicle crashworthiness, occupant restraints, pedestrian safety, evaluation of interventions, economic consequences and emergency and clinical care with specific application to traffic injury prevention. The journal includes full length papers, review articles, case studies, brief technical notes and commentaries.

《Traffic Injury Prevention》是一本由TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC出版商出版的专业医学期刊，该刊创刊于2002年，刊期Bimonthly，该刊已被国际权威数据库SCIE、SSCI收录。在中科院最新升级版分区表中，该刊分区信息为大类学科：医学 4区，小类学科：公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生 4区；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分区等级为Q3。该刊发文范围涵盖公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生等领域，旨在及时、准确、全面地报道国内外公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生工作者在该领域取得的最新研究成果、工作进展及学术动态、技术革新等，促进学术交流，鼓励学术创新。2021年影响因子为2.183，平均审稿速度较慢,6-12周。