UH Manoa Department of Urban and Regional Planning Research Highlight: Winter 2021
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives Journal; Recent Edition Focusing on COVID-19 Impacts to Transportation Planning and Transport Operations
Dr. Karl Kim, Editor-in-chief
This UH Manoa Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) Research Highlight article focuses on a recent edition of the Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TRIP) journal focusing on the global impacts of COVID-19 on transportation planning and transport operations. TRIP is edited by Dr. Karl Kim, who many members of our planning community know for his scholarship and teaching at DURP. TRIP is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with social science aspects of transportation. The 35 articles in the journal's COVID-19 edition range in topic from the impact of the pandemic on airline travel, cruise ship operations, and freight transport to an analysis of short-term changes to behavior and operations and longer term impacts and changes in the transportation industry. Articles associated with the March 2021 edition of TRIP are available via Elsevier.
Dr. Karl Kim is a professor with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He is also the executive director of the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center and director of the University of Hawaiʻi’s graduate program in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. Dr. Kim studies transportation, cities, and resilience. He has developed and led research and training programs in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia.