ORCID

0009-0004-2431-0860

Keywords

Econometric models, land use, property value, spatial regression models

Abstract

Florida’s population has been rapidly growing, with a 14.6% growth in population from 2010 to 2020. This growth in population has led to an associated increase in demand for housing and commercial establishments, which have resulted in changes in land use patterns across the state. For this dissertation, we focus on methods to qualitatively and quantitatively examine how land use patterns are likely to evolve under the expected scenario of population growth in Florida while explicitly allowing for interactions between demographics, transportation and land use patterns. In our first objective we build a simulation framework to predict land use evolution at the parcel resolution for the state of Florida. The framework employs data from previous years to understand the patterns in land use evolution and apply the learnings towards forecasting future land use patterns. In our second objective we focus on the Miami Metropolitan area and examine how land use evolution for residential and commercial land use occurs in relation to existing land use patterns, demographics and transportation infrastructure. In the third objective we focus on commercial land value per square foot in the Miami Metropolitan area. We use a hedonic price model with spatial interactions to identify land use patterns, demographics and transportation infrastructure that correlate with commercial land prices. In our fourth and final objective we focus on comparing property values in hurricane flooded areas as compared to similar areas that haven’t been as severely impacted, identifying in what ways property values differ, and therefore how economic growth has been impacted.

Completion Date

2025

Semester

Summer

Committee Chair

Eluru, Naveen

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Department

Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering

Format

PDF

Identifier

DP0029556

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Campus Location

Orlando (Main) Campus

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