Research Group Updates

2023

• October

  • The final report of our ACRP Synthesis 131: State of Airport Loyalty Programs has been officially published. 

  • Dr. Gao attends the 2024 ISTAT EMEA Conference in London, UK.

  • Dr. Gao visits Cranfield University, UK. 

  • Dr. Gao visits Technological University Dublin at Ireland.

• September

  • Three papers submitted by our group are accepted by 2024 TRBAM! See you in DC in January, 2024.

  • Dr Gao and Sen Wang attend the 2023 UAA Collegiate aviation conference & Expo in St. Petersburg, FL.

  • Dr Gao is elected as the Educator Trustee of the University Aviation Association. His role will formally begin in January, 2024.  

• July 2023

  • Dr Gao attends the AABInternational Annual Meeting 2023 at Indianapolis, IN and presented a worship on competency-based assessment along with his colleagues from Purdue University.

• June

  • Shengyang's paper is now available on TRR

    • Wu, S., & Gao, Y. (2023). Machine Learning Approach to Analyze the Sentiment of Airline Passengers’ Tweets. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231172948 

  • Dr. Gao attends the 2023 Global Polytechnic Summit at St. George, UT and presents Fly Net Zero by 2050: Does the airline industry forget the trips from home to airports?

• May

  • Dr. Yi Gao and Sen Wang attended the 11th National Aviation System Planning Symposium in Irvine, CA and delivered two presentations. 

    • Dr. Gao's presentation: Mapping Airport Catchment Areas: A Multidimensional Approach

    • Sen's poster: How Does Mobile Location of Airport Passengers Tell and Predict Airport Catchment Areas: A Case Study of the New York Metropolitan Multi Airport Region

  • Jiayu Liu won the Ross Fellowship, a prestigious recruitment fellowship, for her incoming doctoral study!

  • Zhi Dou is the recipient of 2023 Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Scholarship Award, offered by the International Society of Transport Air Trading (ISTAT) Foundation

• March

  • Dr. Yi Gao attended 2023 ISTAT Americas Conference.

• February

  • Sen Wang won the scholarship to attend the 11th National Aviation System Planning Symposium!

• January

  • The group attended 2023 Transportation Research Board 102nd Annual Meeting (TRBAM 2023).

    • Sen Wang presented his poster, titled "Airport Ground Access Choice Between Transportation Network Companies and Parking: A Case Study of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport", in RBAM 2023.

    • Shengyang Wu presented his poster, titled "Happy or grumpy? A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze the Sentiment of Airline Passengers' Tweets", in RBAM 2023.