Dr. Pengyu Zhu joined the faculty at Boise State University in 2011 after earning his Ph.D. in Policy, Planning and Development from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He also has an M.S. in Forestry with a specialty in Forestry Economics from Auburn University and an M.S. in Human Geography with a specialty in City and Regional Planning from Nanjing University in China. Dr. Zhu's research interests include transportation, land use, housing, economic development and public finance.
Refereed Journal Articles
Telecommuting, Household Commute and Location Choice, Urban Studies (2013)
Previous empirical studies have made contributions to the understanding of the impact of telecommuting on...
Donor States and Donee States: Investigating Geographic Redistribution of the US Federal-Aid Highway Program 1974-2008 (with Jeffrey R. Brown), Transportation (2013)
In 2009, the US government spent more than $42 billion on the federal-aid highway program....
Are Telecommuting and Personal Travel Complements or Substitutes?, Annals of Regional Science (2012)
Whether telecommuting and personal travel are complements or substitutes is a key question in urban...
Demand for Urban Forests in United States Cities (with Yaoqi Zhang), Landscape and Urban Planning (2008)
Extensive economic investigations have shown a variety of benefits derived from urban forests, but study...
Demand for Urban Forests and Economic Welfare: Evidence from the Southeastern U.S. Cities (with Yaoqi Zhang), Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (2006)
This study examines the relationship between urban forests and household income and population density in...
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