Dr. Laurie Garrow
Georgia Institute of Technology
e-mail: laurie.garrow@ce.gatech.edu
phone: 404-385-6634
Research Interests: Travel behavior analysis and forecasting, Application and estimation of advanced discrete choice models, Airline revenue management, pricing, and schedule planning, Integration of customer and competitive market information into forecasting models, Survey research methods, and Transportation policy analysis
Research Themes: Aviation
BIO
Dr. Laurie Garrow is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Garrow’s research addresses the development and application of advanced models of travel demand that integrate discrete choice, econometric, and market research methods to enhance understanding of travel behavior. Dr. Garrow earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Northwestern University, with an emphasis on travel demand modeling and airline passenger behavior. Her dissertation won first prize in the 2004 Aviation Applications Section of Institute for the Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and honorable mention in the 2004 Eric Pas dissertation competition sponsored by the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR). Dr. Garrow and a colleague from Boeing are currently writing a book for Ashgate Publishing entitled Discrete Choice Models of Air Travel Demand: Theory and Application. Dr. Garrow serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management and is guest editor for a special edition of Transportation Research Part B. Dr. Garrow has five years of industry experience, including four years as an analyst in the Research and Development Revenue Management Group of United Airlines and one year as an analyst in the Customer Science Unit of Mercer Management Consulting.