Yeonkyeong Gina Park

Yeonkyeong Gina Park is a Research Associate at the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) and a doctoral candidate in Regional Science at Cornell University. Her research focuses on transportation and environmental health, as well as infrastructure policy for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in climate change. Her expertise lies in techno-economic analysis using spatial statistics, data analytics, and visualization tools such as ArcGIS, Tableau, and Python. In her dissertation, titled "Toward a Just Transition: Implications of Urban Freight and Ports in the Environment, Energy, and Health," she investigates the impacts of port policies on local environmental health and analyzes the equity and justice considerations of the energy transition in freight trucks. Her work received the 2023 Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) National Leadership Legacy Award Scholarship and the Young Scholar Award at the 36th US–Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC). Park's publications have been featured in prominent journals, including Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Transportation Research Procedia, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Infrastructure
  • Regional science
  • Sustainability
  • Transportation planning

Related Pages

Classes (Selected)

  • CRP 5080 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Planners

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • 2023 Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) Greater New York National Leadership Legacy Award
  • 2023 Young Professionals in Infrastructure (YPI) Building the Future Grant Award

Publications (Selected)

  • Yoo, S., Kumagai, J., Morita, T., Park, Y.G., Managi, S. (2023). "Who to Sacrifice? Modeling the Driverless Dilemma." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Volume 178, 2023, 103872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103872
  • Park, G.Y., (2022). "Emissions Analysis of the Port Drayage Truck Replacement Program and Local Air Quality: The Case of the Port of New York and New Jersey." Pages 1407-1416, Volume 10, Issue 2, Case Studies on Transport Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2022.05.004
  • Park, Y., Dossani, R. (2020). "Port Infrastructure and Supply Chain Integration under the Belt and Road Initiative: Role of Colombo Port in the Apparel Industry in South Asia." Transportation Research Procedia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2020.08.025
  • Park, Y., Song, I., Yi, J., Yi, S. J., & Kim, S. Y. (2020). "Web-Based Visualization of Scientific Research Findings: National-Scale Distribution of Air Pollution in South Korea." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7), 2230. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072230
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