Research

Yeonkyeong Gina Park, Ph.D.

I'm an Environmental Scientist. My research is about transportation, the environment, and their social equity implications. My expertise includes causal inference methods, spatial analysis using GIS, and spatial econometrics. I'm broadly interested in sustainable and resilient infrastructure policy, with a strong emphasis on how research can provide quantifiable evidence to support informed decision-making by communities, industries, and government agencies for equitable transitions.

Academic Identity

Media Spotlight

Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) on LinkedIn: Gina Park: Drayage Trucks"Thought Leaders in Infrastructure" Video Series -- In this video, Ph.D. candidate Gina Yeonkyeong Park talks about her research into the Clean Truck Program…

CV (March 2025 Update)

Research

PUBLICATIONS

Park, Y., Gao, H.O. (2025). “Port Cleaner Trucks and Environmental Justice in the Greater New York Area.” Science of the Total Environment. Preprint

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. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 10(2), 1407-1416. 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, 48, 307-326. 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

Park, Gina_RS PhD_Hydrogen poster.pdf

DEA Port_PublishVE_4080.pdf

10162017_KOSEHT_17Fall_final poster.pdf

ACSP_Sea level rise_Gina Park_yp394.pdf

05292018_KOSEHT_18SS.pdf

18FW 대기환경학회_포스터 1024 FINAL.pdf

Work In Progress

Student Galaxies In The Planning Theory Pluriverse: Emerging Scholars’ Positionalities, Knowledges, and Trajectories

Who to Sacrifice? Modeling the Driverless Dilemma

Danger, Respect, and Indifference: Bike-Sharing Choices in Shanghai and Tokyo using Latent Choice Models.

New York’s Scaffold Law and Worker Safety

Productivity Analysis of the U.S. Container Ports

Pathways to Just Transitions: Bridging Regional Disparities of Clean Energy in the United States through Hydrogen

Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Geothermal Energy Policies

Cost Effectiveness Analysis of the U.S. Clean Truck Program

Education

2024 Ph.D. in Regional Science, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, United States

2022 M.S. in Regional Science, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, United States

2019 M.A. in International Commerce, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea

Dissertation: "Challenges in Implementing the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: Establishing a National Single Window System of Sri Lanka"

2015 B.A. in International Management, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany

Dissertation: "Nation Branding: A Comparative Analysis between South Korea and Germany"

2015 B.A. in International Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Languages: English, German, Japanese, Korean (Native)

Skills: ArcGIS, QGIS, Tableau, SPSS, STATA, R

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