Tschangho John Kim

Endowed Professor of Urban and Regional Systems
PhD, Princeton University, 1976

Dr. Kim began his education in his native South Korea in architectural engineering and completed graduate study in planning at Princeton University. He has worked in Austria, Germany, South Korea, Indonesia, Sweden, Kenya, the People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia and the United States. In 1979-80 he served as the project director of the National Comprehensive Transportation Study of Korea, sponsored by the World Bank. He also directed the Optimal Transport Sector Development Project in Indonesia in 1990-1991. He served as the Director of the Office of Overseas University Collaboration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was the University of Illinois Liaison Officer to the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc. (MUCIA). He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Germany, Senior Fulbright Scholar to Korea, and Chair of the National Advisory Committee for GIS Implementation of Korea. He is the Head of Delegates from Korea for Technical Committee for GIS Standardization (TC 211) of the International Organization for Standards (ISO) since 1995 and is an advisor to the Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA) in Saudi Arabia since 1994.

Dr. Kim teaches courses in transportation analysis, GIS, and the application of the social sciences in planning. Recent research funded by the National Science Foundation focused on models that attempt to show the impact of transportation on urban form and structure and that evaluate the economic impacts of damages in transportation under unscheduled events. Other research projects include development of efficient real time traffic data, episodic and seasonal controls for transportation, and GIS standards.

Dr. Kim has published seven books on Urban Systems Analysis, Regional Systems Analysis, Expert Systems Applications to Urban Planning, Expert Systems in Environmental Planning, and Spatial Planning in Indonesia.

In addition, 18 book chapters, 44 journal articles and 36 professional publications have been published.

Contact Information
Room 210, Temple Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217.244.5369
Fax: 217.244.1717
E-mail: tjohnkim@uiuc.edu

Current Research Areas

• Combined Land Use-Transportation Modeling.
  
  
• Impact Analysis of Earth Quakes on Transportation and Regional Economies.
  
  
• Analyses of Emission Control for the Transportation Sector.
  
  
• Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Land Use on Air Quality: Chicago and Stockholm
  
  
• Economic Analysis of Transportation Sector Investment in Indonesia.
  
  
• Planning for the City of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  
  
• GIS Applications to Urban Systems Analysis.
  
  
• GIS Standardization.
  
  
• Impact Analysis of Information Technology on Urban Form and Structure.
  
  
• Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Selected Publications

Books

Kim, Tschangho John, 1989, Integrated Urban Systems Modeling: Theory and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts.

Kim, Tschangho John, Lyna L. Wiggins and Jeff R. Wright (eds), 1990, Expert Systems: Applications to Urban Planning, Springer-Verlag Publishers, New York, New York.

Kim, Tschangho John, 1990, Advanced Transport and Spatial Systems Models: Applications to Korea. Springer-Verlag Publishers, New York, New York.

Kim, Tschangho John, Gerrit Knaap and Iwan J. Azis (eds), 1992, Spatial Development in Indonesia: Review and Prospect, Avebury-Gower Publishing Co., Brookfield, VT.

Wright, J.R., Lyna L. Wiggins, Ravinder Jain and Tschangho John Kim (eds), 1993, Expert Systems in Environmental Planning, Springer-Verlag Publishers, New York, New York.

Knaap, Gerrit J., T. John Kim (eds), 1998, Environmental Program Evaluation: A Primer, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL.

Kim, T. John, Lars Lundqvist and Lars-Goran Mattson (eds), 1999, Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment: Advances in Land-Use/Transportation Modelling, Springer-Verlag Publishers, Berlin.

In addition, 18 Book Chapters, 44 Journal Articles and 36 professional publications have been published.