Publications

Books

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

  1. Tiwari, P., Singleton, P., & Park, K. (2026). How Does Regional Air Pollution Affect Pedestrian, Car, and Transit Use?, Findings, January. https:/​/​doi.org/​10.32866/​001c.155021. [download]
  2. Wang, Y., Park, K., & Mau, K.H. (2025). Access for Whom? Inequality and Inequity in Multi-Modal Accessibility to Large Parks, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 113: 129124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129124 [download]
  3. Christensen, K., Chamberlain, B., Park, K., Abrishami, M., Sheen, J.C., & Larsen, T. (2025). Surveying People with Disabilities: Insights on Methods and Challenges. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 34: 101702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2025.101702. [download]
  4. Steinharter, L., Ibsen, P., Lam, T.Y., Nesbitt, L., Park, K., and McHale, M.R. (2025). Hot stops, cool looks: Aesthetic solutions for thermal comfort at transit stops. Urban Climate 64: 102606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2025.102606. [download]
  5. Park, K. & Khanal, A. (2025). Park features, neighbourhood environment, and time factors affect park visitor volume: A meta analysis. Environment and Behavior 57(3-4): 296-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165251342974 [download]
  6. Chamberlain, B., Novack, V., Larsen, T., Park, K., Johnson, S., Sheen, J.C., Abrishami, M., Licon, C., & Christensen, K., (2025). The Role of Place Types on Social Relationships and Satisfaction as Influenced by COVID and Disabilities. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences 6: 1624771. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2025.1624771 [download]
  7. Chen, M., Liu, Y., Liu, F., Chadha T., & Park, K. (2025). Measuring pedestrian-level street greenery visibility through space syntax and crowdsourced imagery: A case study in London, UK. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 105: 128725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128725 [download]
  8. Rigolon, A., Park, K., Choi, D., & Wang, Y. (2024). Riding transit to parks in Utah: Motivations, constraints, negotiations, and policy recommendations, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 133: 104297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2024.104297 [download]
  9. Wang, Y., Rigolon, A., & Park, K. (2024). Transit to parks initiatives in the U.S. and Canada: Practitioners’ perspectives, Transport Policy 154: 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.06.007 [download]
  10. Chen, S., Sleipness, O., Christensen, K., Yang, B., Park, K., Knowles, R., Yang, Z., & Wang, H. (2024). Exploring the Associations between Social Interaction and Park Quality: An Urban Case Study in Utah, USA, Cities 145: 104714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104714
  11. Park, K. (2023). Regreening Suburbia: An Analysis of Urban Greening Approaches in U.S. Sprawl Retrofitting Projects. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 88: 128092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128092 [download]
  12. Park, K., Garcia, I., & Kim, K. (2023). Who visited parks and trails more or less during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how? A mixed-methods study, Landscape Research Record 11: 157-171. [download]
  13. Park, K., Singleton, P.A., Brewer, S. & Zuban, J. (2023). Pedestrians and the built environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changing relationships by the pandemic phases in Salt Lake County, UT, USA. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2677(4): 448–462. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221083606. [download]
  14. Park, K., Nasr-Isfahani, H., Novack, V., Sheen, J., Hadayeghi, H., Song, Z., & Christensen, K. (2023). Impacts of disability on daily travel behaviour: A systematic review. Transport Reviews 43(2): 178-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2022.2060371 [The editors’ choice] [download]
  15. Park, K., Farb, A., & George, B. (2023). Effectiveness of visual communication and collaboration tools for online GIS teaching: Using Padlet and Conceptboard. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 47(3): 399-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2022.2065669 [download]
  16. Kim, D. & Park, K. (2023). Analysis of potential collisions between pedestrians and personal transportation devices in a university campus: An application of unmanned aerial vehicles. Journal of American College Health 71(7): 2272-2279. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2021.1967358 [download]
  17. Ren, B., Park, K., Shrestha, A., Yang, J., McHale, M., Bai, W., Wang, G. (2022). Impact of Human Disturbances on the Spatial Heterogeneity of Landscape Fragmentation in Qilian Mountain National Park, China, Land 11: 2087. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11112087 [download]
  18. Park, K., Chamberlain, B., Song, Z., Nasr-Isfahani, H., Sheen, J., Larsen, T., Novack, V., Licon, C., & Christensen, K. (2022). A double jeopardy: COVID-19 impacts on people with disabilities’ travel behavior and community living. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 156: 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.12.008 [download]
  19. Park, K. & Ewing, R. (2022). The usability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for pedestrian observation, Journal of Planning Education and Research 42(2): 206-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18805154 [download]
  20. Park, K., Sanchez, T., & Zuban, J. (2022). Evaluating scholarly productivity and impacts of landscape architecture faculty using citation analysis. Landscape Journal 41(1): 1-14. doi:10.3368/lj.41.1.1 [download]
  21. Hinners, S., Rose, J., Choi, D., & Park, K. (2022). Geographically Evaluating Urban-Wildland Juxtapositions across 36 Urban Areas in the United States. Geography and Sustainability 3(2): 139-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2022.05.004 [download]
  22. Stevens, M. Park, K.,Tian, G., Kim, K. & Ewing, R. (2022). Why do some articles in planning journals get cited more than others?, Journal of Planning Education and Research 42(3): 442-463. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X19827083 [download]
  23. Park, K., Rigolon, A., Choi, D., Lyons, T., & Brewer, S. (2021) Transit to parks: An environmental justice study of transit access to large parks in the U.S. West. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 60:127055. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127055 [download]
  24. Singleton, P., Park, K., & Lee, D. (2021). Varying influences of the built environment on daily and hourly pedestrian crossing volumes at signalized intersections estimated from traffic signal controller event data, Journal of Transport Geography. 93: 103067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103067 [download]
  25. Park, K., Farb, A., & Chen, S. (2021). First-/last-mile experience matters: The influence of the built environment on satisfaction and loyalty among public transit riders. Transport Policy 112: 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.08.003 [download]
  26. Sabouri, S., Tian, G., Ewing, R., Park, K., & Greene, W. (2021). The built environment and vehicle ownership modeling: Evidence from 32 diverse regions in the U.S., Journal of Transport Geography 93: 103073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103073 [download]
  27. Kim, K. Park, K., & Nelson, A. C. (2021). Impacts of light rail transit on labor participation and housing affordability in the U.S.: Longitudinal analysis using propensity score matching. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2675 (12): 419-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981211029650 [download]
  28. Park, K. (2020) Park and neighborhood attributes associated with park use: An observational study using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Environment & Behavior 52(5): 518–543. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916518811418 [download]
  29. Choi, D., Park, K., & Rigolon, A. (2020). From XS to XL urban nature: Examining access to different types of green space using a “just sustainabilities” framework, Sustainability 12: 6998. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176998 [download]
  30. George, B. & Park, K. (2020) Flying high: A case study of the integration of drones into a landscape architecture curriculum, Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 5-2020: 246-253. doi:10.14627/537690026 [JoDLA Scientific Merit Award] [download]
  31. Sabouri, S., Park, K., Smith, A., Tian, G., & Ewing, R. (2020). Exploring the Influence of Built Environment on Uber Demand, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 81: 102296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2020.102296 [download]
  32. Chen, S., Sleipness, O., Xu, Y., Park, K., & Christensen, K. (2020). A systematic review of alternative protocols for evaluating non-spatial dimensions of urban parks, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 53: 126718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126718 [download]
  33. Park, K., Ewing, R., Sabouri, S., Choi, D., Hamidi, S., & Tian, G. (2020). Guidelines for a polycentric region to reduce vehicle use and increase walking and transit use, Journal of the American Planning Association 86(2): 236-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2018.11.005 [download; technical appendix]
  34. Park, K., Christensen, K., & Lee, D. (2020). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in behavior mapping: A case study of neighborhood parks. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 52: 126693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126693 [download]
  35. Park, K., Lee, S., & Choi, D. (2020). Empty parks: An observational and correlational study using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 5-2020: 262-274. doi:10.14627/537690028 [download]
  36. Park, K., Sabouri, S., Lyons, T., Tian, G., Worthen, C., & Ewing, R. (2020) Intrazonal or Interzonal? Improving Intrazonal Travel Forecast in a Four-Step Travel Demand Model, Transportation 47(5): 2087-2108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-019-10002-0 [download]
  37. Park, K. Ewing, R. Sabouri, S., & Larsen, J. (2019) Street life and the built environment in an auto-oriented US region, Cities 88: 243-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2018.11.005 %5Bdownload%5D
  38. Lyons, T., Choi, D., Park, K., & Ameli, H. (2020). Safety and non-optimal usage of a protected intersection for bicycling and walking: A before-and-after case study in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sustainability 12: 9195. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219195 [download]
  39. Tian, G., Park, K., Ewing, R., Watten, M., and Walters, J. (2020). Traffic Generated by Mixed-Use Developments—a Follow-Up 31-Region Study, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. [download]
  40. Zandiatashbar, A., Hamidi, S., Foster. N., & Park, K. (2019) The missing link between place and productivity? The impact of Transit-Oriented Development on the knowledge and creativity economy, Journal of Planning Education and Research 39(4): 429-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X19826271 [download]
  41. Tian, G., Park, K., & Ewing, R. (2019) Trip and parking generation rates for different housing types: Effects of compact development, Urban Studies 56(8): 1554-1575. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018770075 [download]
  42. Park, K., Choi, D., Tian, G., & Ewing, R. (2019) Not parking lots but parks: Joint association of parks and transit stations with travel behavior, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(4), 547. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16040547 %5Bdownload]
  43. Ewing, R., Tian, G., Park, K., Sabouri, S., Stinger, P. & Profitt, D. (2019) Comparative Case Studies: Trip and Parking Generation at Orenco Station TOD, Portland Region and Station Park TAD, Salt Lake City Region, Cities 87:48-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2018.12.020 [download]
  44. Park, K., Ewing, R., Scheer, B., & Khan, S. (2018) Travel behavior in TODs vs. non-TODs: Using cluster analysis and propensity score matching, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672(6): 31–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118774159 [download]
  45. Park, K., Ewing, R., & Scheer, B.C. (2018) The impacts of built environment characteristics of rail-based station areas on household travel behavior, Cities 74: 277-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.12.015 [download]
  46. Park, K. (2017) Psychological park accessibility: A systematic literature review of perceptual components affecting park use. Landscape Research 42(5): 508-520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2016.1267127 [download]
  47. Park, K. & Ewing, R. (2017) The usability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for measuring park-based physical activity. Landscape and Urban Planning 167: 157-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.06.010 [download]
  48. Park, K. & Park, S. (2016) A preliminary study on usability of unmanned aerial vehicles in observing park users: Focused on urban parks in Busan. Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture 44(4): 35-44. (in Korean) [download]
  49. Kim, J. & Park, K. (2013) Functionality and accessibility of linear parks: Comparative case study with conventional neighborhood parks. Journal of Korea Planners Association 48(6): 89-106. (corresponding author; in Korean) [download]
  50. Park, K. & Pae, J. (2013) Landscape as materialized discourse and capital: Political economic interpretation of urban landscape. Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture 41(6): 117-128. (in Korean) [download]
  51. Park, K. & Pae, J. (2012) Implication of the city beautiful movement on landscape architectural history and contemporary urban regeneration. Journal of the Korean Landscape Council 4(1): 41-60. (in Korean) [download]
  52. Park, K. & Pae, J. (2008) Design strategies of large park in the International Design Competition for Central Open Space, Korea,” Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture 36(5): 13-25. (in Korean) [download]

Project repots

  • Rigolon et al. (2022) Evaluating and Promoting Transit Connections to Regional Open spaces in Utah, Utah Transit Authority (UTA), download
  • Hall et al. (2021) Long-range Urban Air Mobility Land-use Planning for Vertiports, Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), download
  • Singleton et al. (2021) Utilizing ATSPM Data for Pedestrian Planning and Analysis – Phase II, Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), download
  • Park, K. et al. (2020). Toward an Understanding of the UTA Customer Experience: Focusing on Out-of-Vehicle Environments, Utah Transit Authority (UTA), download
  • Ewing, R. et al. (2020). Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled, Encouraging Walk Trips, and Facilitating Efficient Trip Chains Through Polycentric Development, National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), download
  • Ewing, R. et al. (2019). Key Enhancements to the WFRC/MAG Conventional Four-Step Travel Demand Model, National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), download
  • Ewing, R. et al. (2018). Comparative Case Studies: Trip and Parking Generation at Orenco Station TOD, Portland Region and Station Park TAD, Salt Lake City Region, Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC), Utah Transit Authority (UTA), and Mountainland Association of Governments. download
  • Scheer. B. et al. (2017). How does transportation affordability vary among TODs, TADs, and other areas?. National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), NITC-RR-859. download
  • Ganning, J. et al. (2015). The Effects of Commuter Rail on Population Deconcentrating and Commuting: A Salt Lake City Case Study Case Study. National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), NITC-UU-14-778. download