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More about projects
Current Projects by Faculty
Dr. William R. Black - Transportation
Social Change and Sustainable Transport (SCAST) and Sustainable Transport Analysis and Research (STAR)
Both of these NSF supported projects sought to bring sustainable transportation to the attention of transport researchers from all of the social sciences and engineering. The first of these projects resulted in the production of a collection of papers on Social Change and Sustainable Transport. The second project which is ongoing will result in a series of volumes on topics ranging from behavioral aspects of transport to freight flows and the role of globalization.
Dr. Tom Evans - Land use change
Spatial-Experimental Laboratory for Research and Policy Analysis Related to Complex Systems: This research explores spatial aspects of decision-making using computer-based experiments to explore fundamental aspects of natural resource management. With the support of funding from an NSF MRI grant, we developed a laboratory facility specifically designed to develop experimental research with an explicitly spatial context. This research builds on research in economics, cognitive science, political science and psychology to explore the spatial aspects of human-decision-making.
Open-Source Development of Models of Land Use and Land Cover Change: The goal of this research is to develop a community of researchers contributing to open-source models of land use and land cover change. The existing research builds on the foundation and code of the Urbansim Project developed at the University of Washington. This work is supported by the United States Forest Service.
Biocomplexity in Linked Bioecological-Human Systems: Agent-Based Models of Land-Use
Decisions and Emergent Land-Use Patterns in Forested Regions of the American Midwest and the Brazilian Amazon: This is an NSF funded collaborative
research project that is using various empirical and modeling methods to explore land use and land cover change in South-Central Indiana and
a study area in the Brazilian Amazon. Agent-based models are used to explore how agent heterogeneity and spatial interactions produce particular landscape
patterns in areas experiencing deforestation and reforestation.
Land use and Land Cover Change in South-Central Indiana: The goal of this
research is to identify the drivers and consequences of land use and land cover change in South-Central Indiana. The predominant land cover trajectory
in this area is one of forest cover increase from 1900-present. This research employs GIS and remote sensing methods to explore the dynamics of land
use and land cover change at multiple spatial scales of analysis.