Who we are & What we do
Who we are
The iAdapt brings together an internationally diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars, planning practitioners, as well as PhD and graduate students to deal with several climate-related issues from multiple perspectives. The research center has been involving numerous faculty members and graduate students in a variety of research projects funded by national and state sponsors.
What we do
1. Adaptation Planning: Including Vulnerability assessment of sea level rise, hurricanes and extreme precipitation, climate action planning, climate adaptation planning, climate gentrification.
2.Transportation Planning: Conducting public transportation planning, transportation technologies (e.g., micro-transit, micro-mobility, electrification, automate vehicles) and their impacts on travel behavior, transportation systems, environment, and communities.
3. Urban Planning Artificial Intelligence (AI): Exploring the impacts of Al on urban planning, experimenting with Al-enable planning automation in the planning and decision-making process.
- Research:
- Vulnerability assessment of transportation facility under different sea level rise scenarios.
- Coastal resilience in response to climate change and other environmental risks.
- Increasing public risk awareness and risk knowledge, as well as the knowledge on resilience and adaptive capabilities.
- Examine the interactions between shared mobility and urban spatial structure.
- Understand big data in urban context.
- Developing new methods for evaluating smart cities.
- Evaluate the vulnerability, accessibility and resilience of transportation network in response to climate change.
- Assess the impacts of emerging microtransit and micromobiity on urban transportation system.
- Autonomous vehicle (AV) based microtransit service.
- Dissemination & Outreach:
- To disseminate information on climate change and sea level rise impacts, adaptation and mitigation to stakeholders at all levels.
- To analyze projects designed to improve resilience along Florida’s coastal areas and inlands.
- To develop tools and guidelines that will directly help coastal communities for local mitigation strategy, sea-level rise adaptation and decision making processes.
- To integrate and publish new and existing data, models and knowledge in the field of adaption planning for sea level rise.
- To develop scenarios, simulation models and tools for decision makers to build capacity to anticipate the future hazards.
- To provide more flexibility for stakeholders to assess smart cities in varied methods.
- To create a comprehensive list of classified indicators and measurements for quantitative assessments of smart cities.