Jacobs - South Florida Regional Planning Council

Vikas Jain, AICP, GISP
Scenario Planning/Socio-Economic Modeling
Education
MS, City & Regional
Planning, Clemson
University (2003)
MS, Planning
(Housing), School of
Planning, CEPT
(2000)
BS, Construction
Technology, School
of Building Science &
Technology, CEPT
(1998)
Registrations
American Institute of
Certified Planner,
(#020097), 2003
Certified Geographic
Information Systems
(GIS) Professional
(GISP), (#00057880),
2008
Years of Experience
Since 2000
Professional
Affiliations
American Institute of
Certified Planners
(AICP)
American Planning
Association (APA),
Member, Florida
Chapter
Over the past 10 years Vikas has worked on high profile and complex
transportation planning and regional development planning projects.
He has extensive experience using Geographical Information Systems
(GIS) for socioeconomic, land use, demographic, and environmental
analysis for systems scenario planning on transportation-land use
planning projects. Mr. Jain is proficient with GIS based software,
including ArcGIS and ArcView and database analysis software such as
SPSS. He also has experience with software like ERDAS IMAGINE
and TransCAD, Cube Voyager, used for land use change detection,
spatial analysis and transportation modeling.
Strategies for Integration of Sustainability and the Transportation
System, Miami-Dade, FL; GIS Analyst. Selected by the Miami-
Dade MPO through the General Planning Services contract to
complete a review of current trends in sustainability as it pertains to
the transportation system, identify sustainable scenarios appropriate
for Miami-Dade, and evaluate the impact these scenarios may have on
the transportation system. Miami-Dade County Metropolitan Planning
Organization (MPO), Strategies for Integration of Sustainability & the
Transportation System, FL. Responsible for the developing sustainable
transportation scenarios and methodology for evaluating transportation
strategies using Southeast Florida Regional Planning (SERPM) model.
The focus of the project was to accommodate future travel needs in
Miami-Dade County using travel demand management strategies.
Future Growth Scenarios; GIS Analyst. Assisted the Hillsborough
County City-County Planning Commission with the creation of future
growth scenarios and developed an interactive software program to
allow elected officials and members of the public to create their own
growth scenarios for their County. Assisted with developing and
analyzing alternative population and employment growth patterns for
four different scenarios (transit oriented development, unrestricted
growth, redevelopment and activity centers scenarios) for
Hillsborough County.
Northeast Plant City Master Plan, Plant City, FL; GIS Analyst.
Worked with property owners, elected officials, and representatives
from local, regional and state agencies to develop a set of guiding
principles, create conceptual land use scenarios and identify
implementation steps. The completed master plan established a vision
of the future development pattern desired and was endorsed by the
City of Plant City, Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough
Metropolitan Planning Organization. Responsible for developing a
spatial model for land use suitability assessment using GIS.
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