Welcome to the June issue of the Transportation Tidbits Newsletter! This issue features the latest happenings within the transportation industry along with a list of upcoming transportation conferences and webinars. You can also find some of the latest news from our faculty and students! If you have questions or comments about this month's issue, please let us know. Enjoy!
Important Dates for NDSU Students
JUNE 19 (Wednesday)
Last day to submit requests to Audit,
Pass/Fail for 8-week session
JUNE 25 (Tuesday)
8 week session - Last day to
Add Summer courses (
appeal needed after this date, contact Registration & Records)
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute will host the annual Awards Banquet October 3rd, 2019 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fargo, ND. Award honorees include Senator Rich Wardner, UGPTI's own TLN Director Tim Horner and NDSU Emeritus Professor of Engineering Donald Andersen.
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute Student Recognized at Transportation Research Forum Annual Conference
Fecri Karanki was awarded the 2019 Graduate Student Best Paper Award at this year's Annual Transportation Research Forum in Washington DC. An introduction of his paper titled The Effects of Airline-Airport Business Relationshp on Airport Efficiency: A Moral Hazard Problem? can be reviewed below.
"The most common form of the bilateral vertical relationship between airports and airlines in the US is the use of agreements. The three types of airport use agreements in the U.S. are the residual method, the compensatory method, and the hybrid method. The aim of this paper is to determine whether these three business agreements affect airport operational efficiency. Using 2009 to 2016 yearly data of 59 U.S. hub airports, we find that airports with residual-type agreements tend to have lower operational efficiency. This implies that although signatory airlines expect to strengthen its own operation through a residual-type agreement with an airport host, increased airport inefficiency may undercut any potential benefits of residual agreements."
