Since its inception in 1987, the VPT Lab has been actively involved in basic GIS analysis, and applied planning and policy research funded by:

• National Science Foundation
• Federal, state, and local governments
• Research centers
• Non-profit agencies  

We work on projects that are both large and small in scope and focus on a range of geographic areas, including:

• Downtowns (e.g. 3-dimensional computer modeling)
• Communities (e.g. Districting and Redistricting)
• Regions  (e.g. Vulnerability and Resiliency Indicators for Coastal counties)
• Multiple States (e.g. Potential Magnitude of household displacement from hurricanes)

We have also contributed to community planning and (re)development initiatives via: design of websites for agencies and community based organizations, and survey research aimed at understanding barriers to effective use of GIS by community based organizations.