Ju Dong Park, a NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral student, recently was awarded the Best Paper Award from the Transportation Research Forum at its 55th annual forum.
Park’s paper, “The Magnitudes of Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Demand for U.S. Domestic Air Passengers,” analyzed air carriers’ behavior in capturing market share by examining demand for air-passenger services, and price structure and economic factors affecting passenger behaviors toward air travel.
The study also examined other non-economic factors such as seasonality, unexpected events or airline mergers affecting passenger behaviors. Co-author of the paper was Won W. Koo, Chamber of Commerce distinguished professor in the NDSU Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics.
The annual forum was held March 13-15 in San Jose, California.
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.