GRADUATE AWARDS A RECORD
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- Thursday, 27 July 2006
Dora Kay, chairman of TIACA’s Education Committee, announced four winners of $1,000 awards as part of the Association’s industry education program that encourages graduate students to research papers in fields related to air logistics.
“In the past, we have only made one award each year to the writers of graduate research papers,” Ms Kay said. “But the quality of the papers submitted this year led us to name four winners.”
The winners are Carolina Grünschloß from Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany for a paper on ‘The Development of International Airports into Air Cargo Hubs and its Economic Impact on Local Industrial Structures’. She explained the concept of air cargo hub-and-spoke models, their economic effects, and how such impact can be measured.
Jan Van de Reyd and Marnix Wouters of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, who submitted a research paper on ‘Air Cargo Density Research’. The primary objective of this study was to determine the means of identifying the true densities of various types of airfreight commodities in order to establish appropriate pricing policies.
Guido Schwarz of the Graduate School of Geography of Clark University, Worcester Massachusetts, submitted his research paper entitled: ‘Enabling Global Trade Above the Clouds: Restructuring Processes and Information Technology in the Transatlantic Air Cargo Industry’. The fourth award went to Christopher Furlan of the University of Miami (Florida) School of Law, for a graduate research paper entitled ‘Air Cargo Foreign Ownership Restrictions in the United States’. The paper provides an explanation of the US certification process by which air carriers, including cargo carriers, must demonstrate that they are owned or controlled by citizens of the US.
