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Current GeoPlan Projects
The GeoPlan Center is self-funded through various contracts with state governmental agencies, non-governmental agencies, and other private organizations. The GeoPlan Center attracts approximately 1 to 1.5 million dollars annually.
Efficient Transportation Decision Making (ETDM)
ETDM is an initiative of the Florida Department of Transportation. GeoPlan provides governmental and nonprofit agencies and the public with access to project plans and information about potential impacts on natural and manmade resources and communities. GeoPlan houses the digital databases of environmental and community resource information used in the project.
Click here to read more about ETDM.
Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL)
GeoPlan houses and maintains the FGDL, an online statewide clearinghouse of geospatial data. The FGDL contains over 350 geospatial layers from 35 different local, state, federal and private agencies.
FGDL website: www.fgdl.org
Florida Trails Network
The Florida Trails Network is an interactive website maintained by GeoPlan for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Greenways and Trails. The website serves as a centralized location to exchange and collect existing recreational trails data from around the state. The website supports OGT's vision to create a statewide connected system of greenways and trails.
Florida Trails Network website: www.FloridaTrailsNetwork.com
National Childhood Obesity Geographic Information System
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), in partnership with the University of Florida, is developing an innovative National Childhood Obesity Geographic Information System (GIS) infrastructure. The goal is to develop place-based analytic tools that can link environmental, and policy determinants of physical activity and healthy eating with measures of children's activity, dietary patterns and other related obesity measures. This approach holds enormous potential to inform and redirect efforts and target resources to more effectively impact childhood obesity health outcomes.
Web-Based Crash Mapping and Analysis
Understanding the geographic distribution of traffic crashes on Florida's roadways is critical to traffic safety efforts. The web-based crash analysis system supports reporting, analysis, and mapping of traffic crashes. Currently several Florida counties use the system for traffic engineering purposes, and GeoPlan is working to expand its use throughout the state. Web-based crash analysis systems have been created for Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin and Palm Beach Counties, and the metropolitan Orlando area. Current crash mapping projects are focused on Alachua County and Martin County.
LUCIS - Land-Use Conflict Identification Strategy
Developing alternative future land use scenarios is a proactive approach to land management, resource management, and political and economic responsibility. The UF GeoPlan Center has developed a process for creating alternative land use scenarios using the Land-Use Conflict Identification Strategy (LUCIS). LUCIS is a goal-driven GIS model that produces a spatial representation of probable patterns of future land use divided into several categories. The methodology illustrates the impact of population increase and paves the way for developing more sustainable patterns of land use.
To read more about the process, see the LUCIS website at www.geoplan.ufl.edu/lucis.