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Professor Nolan is an expert in transportation economics and industrial organization, specializing in the evaluation of market structure and industry productivity. His research examines economic issues surrounding freight transportation, both domestic and international, and he studies agricultural resource transportation modes, including trucking, railroads, air cargo, and maritime shipping. In 2022, Professor Nolan co-edited a book on the international air cargo industry published by Emerald Publishing. He has served as president of the U.S. Transportation Research Forum (TRF) and has been the Editor of the Journal of Transportation Research Forum (JTRF) since 2016. His primary research focuses on agricultural transportation, utilizing various tools such as econometric and computational methods to analyze competition and market structure within agricultural transportation markets, particularly in the trucking and rail sectors associated with grain movements in Western Canada. He is also investigating the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to support spatial economic analysis of infrastructure capacity in freight transportation. Given his affiliation with the Social Science Research Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan, he is developing economic experiments to study ongoing agricultural transportation issues, particularly the evolving structure of modern agricultural supply chains and the changing interactions among supply chain participants.
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