Laboratories & Projects
EPIL develops information technology tools and applies them in transportation and development planning, management, research and teaching. The laboratory's objectives are to provide decision-makers, planners, and the public with a scientific basis for transportation and land development planning, through the construction of planning frameworks and deep databases; to support the concept of open access to digital information on transportation, by developing and implementing Open GIS information technologies; and to develop public domain GIS software.
LEAM is a process of modeling, visualization, and testing the impacts of land-use policy decisions. Through dynamic spatial modeling and Web-based interface, LEAM simulates land-use change across space and time, providing a basis for discussion and decision-making in planning.
REAL provides timely, high quality analytical economic information for a variety of uses such as public policy decision making by public sector agencies and for strategic marketing in the private sector. REAL's capabilities revolve around comprehensive state and metropolitan models that integrate econometric and input-output analysis to provide for both impact and forecasting analyses
The forces influencing regional prosperity are still poorly understood, and the effects of many public policies on regional economies remain unclear. The REAP Research Group addresses those gaps through a strategic program of research on regional development, policy evaluation methods, enriched data systems, institutional practices, and policy implementation.
The Spatial Policy Analysis Research Consortium is a voluntary association of faculty members and their students who share interests in quantitative social science research on public policy issues with important spatial, regional, state, and local dimensions. Faculty in the group regularly share the results of their work-in-progress through the SPARC Seminar Series. Financial and other support for SPARC is provided by the ACES Office of Research and the Institute for Government and Public Affairs.
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