Dr. Park’s research interests are urban economics and
transportation modeling as applied to natural and man-made
environmental and security problems. He developed National
Interstate Economic Model (NIEMO), a spatially disaggregated
operational MRIO (Multiregional Input-Output) model of the 50
states and the District of Columbia. The NIEMO is used to analyze
economic impacts resulting from natural disasters such as Hurricane
Katrina and hypothetical terrorist attacks. Further, it is
expanding to (1) transportation and multi-modal systems, (2)
international countries, (3) temporal extension, (4) demand price
elasticity model, (5) HAZUS software, (6) game theory and (7)
environmental model estimating Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission
effects. His vision is to observe dynamic changes in
urban/regional/international systemactic structures. The models
Dr.Park has developed provide simulated results stemming from the
changes and the predicted futures for planners in urban, regional,
national and international levels.
