Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/citylogistics-lab 

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VVi2TP8AAAAJ&hl=en 

Experiences

Incheon National University (INU)

Assistant Professor • 2023 — Present

Center for Innovations in Smart Logistics Systems at INU

Deputy Director • 2023 — Present

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Graduate Teaching Assistant • 2018 — 2022

District Department of Transportation (Washington DC Government)

Research Intern • 2019

Virginia Tech

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant • 2017 — 2018

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering • 2018 — 2022

Publications (international)

* Corresponding author

Lee, J., Park, Y., Kim, W.*, 2026. Behavioral profiles of crowdsourced delivery workers: A comparative analysis of prospective and experienced workers. Transportation Research Record. Accepted.

Park, Y., Hur, S. and Kim, W.*, 2026. Restaurant Willingness to Adopt Sidewalk Autonomous Delivery Robots : Evidence from South Korea. Transportation Planning and Technology. Accepted.

Xu, D., Kim, W.*, 2026. An Analysis of Heterogeneous Compliance with Hours-of-Service Rules among Freight Vehicle Drivers: A Case Study in South Korea. In Revision.

Kim, W.*, Calderón, O., & Holguín-Veras, J. (2026). Understanding off-hour deliveries in cities: a critical review of determinants and impacts. Transport Reviews, 46(3), 436-461.

Bang, S., Chen, J., Shin, K., Kim, W.*, 2025. What Influences the Public to Work as Crowdshippers Using Cargo Bikes? An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior. Systems, 13(10), 895.

Kim, W. and Wang, X.C.*, 2024. Shopping Behavior Then and Now : How the Behavioral Shift Differs by Income Level and Urban Size. Travel Behaviour and Society, 36, 100782.

Kim, W. and Hur, S.*, 2024. Why and Why Not? A Systematic Review of the Willingness to Accept Drone and Robot Deliveries. Transportation Research Record. Accepted.

Kim, W. and Hur, S.*, 2024. An Investigation of Behavioral Change Patterns of Eat-out Trip, Food Delivery, and Take-out Due to the COVID Pandemic : A Case Study in South Korea. Transportation Research Record. Accepted.

Wang, X.C., Kim, W.*, and Zhang, D. 2023. What to Do in Response to Toll Increases : A Behavioral Analysis of Freight Carriers in New York State. Transportation Research Part A : Policy and Practice, 173, 103725.

Holguín-Veras, J., Wang, X.C., Ng, J., Ramirez-Rios, D., Wojtowicz, J., Calderon, O., Caron, B., Rivera-Gonzalez, C., Perez, S., Schmid, J., Kim, W., Ismael, A., Amaral, J.C., Lawson, C., and Hakke, D., 2022. Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses : Methodology, Strategies, and Tools Guidebook. NCHRP Report 998.

Kim, W. and Wang, X.C.*, 2022. The Adoption of Alternative Delivery Locations in New York City : Who and How Far? Transportation Research Part A : Policy and Practice, 158, 127-140.

Kim, W. and Wang, X.C.*, 2022. Double Parking in New York City : A Comparison between Commercial Vehicles and Passenger Vehicles. Transportation, 49 (5), 1315-1337.

Wang, X.C., Kim, W.*, Holguín-Veras, J. and Schmid, J., 2021. Adoption of Delivery Services in Light of the COVID Pandemic : Who and How Long? Transportation Research Part A : Policy and Practice, 154, 270-286.

Kim, W. and Wang, X.C.*, 2021. To be online or in-store : Analysis of retail, grocery, and food shopping in New York city. Transportation Research Part C : Emerging Technologies, 126, 103052.

Publications (local)

Kim, W.*, 2025. An Analysis of Freight Vehicles Dwelling Time at Rest Areas on Expressways. The Journal of Bigdata. Accepted.

Kim, D. and Kim, W.*, 2025. An Investigation into Continuance Intention to Use China-Based Cross-Border E-Commerce in South Korea : The Role of Perceived Risk. Korean Journal of Logistics. Accepted.

Kim, W. and Hur, S.*, 2024. Opinions Toward Delivery Drones and Robots from the Restaurant Perspective. Korean Journal of Logistics, 21 (3), 19-30.

Recognitions

Excellence in Research Award 2024, Incheon National University • 2025

Excellence in Research Award 2023, Incheon National University • 2024

Best Paper Award, The Society of Logistics Science and Technology • 2023

Outstanding Student Service Award, KOTAA • 2021, 2022

The Army Commendation Medal, The U.S. Department of the Army • 2013

Professional Services

Editorial board member:

○ The Korean Journal of Logistics

Board member:

○ The Korean Logistics Society

○ Korean Society of Intelligent Transport Systems

Conference organizing committee:

○ The Society of Logistics Science and Technology (2026) 

Promotion and tenure review:

○ For a U.S. institution (Economics department) (2025)

Committee:

○ Logistics Policy at the Incheon Metropolitan Government

○ Traffic Impact Assessment at the Incheon Metropolitan Government

Ad-hoc Reviewer for journals:

○ International journals

        - Journal of the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences

- IET Intelligent Transport Systems

- Maritime Policy and Management

- Networks and Spatial Economics

- Transportation

- Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

- Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice

- Transportation Research Record

- Travel Behaviour and Society

- The COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals

- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

- The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research

- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

- Scientific Reports

- Maritime Business Review

- International Journal of Urban Sciences

- Journal of Urban Mobility

- Supply Chain Forum

- Transport Policy

- Energy Efficiency

- Journal of Transport Geography

- Journal of Internet Commerce

- Journal of Business Logistics

- Discover Sustainability

- BMC Public Health

- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

- Research in Transportation Business & Management

- Cities

- Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

- Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment

- Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

○ Local journals

- Korean Journal of Logistics

- Journal of Transport Research

- The Korea Journal of BigData

- Journal of the Korean Society for Railway

- Journal of Korean Society of Transportation

- Korean Journal of Urban Studies

- Journal of Logistics Science and Technology

- Journal of Korean Society of Intelligent Transport Systems