Education

Professor Wiggins received a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981, a M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University in 1972, and a B.S. in Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in 1971. She taught at Stanford University (civil engineering) from 1981 to 1989, at MIT (Urban Studies) from 1989 to 1993, and is currently at Rutgers University. At Rutgers, she chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development and a member of the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Geography. Her teaching responsibilities include courses in planning methods, computer applications in planning, and Geographic Information Systems.

Wiggins' research interests focus on planning methods and computer applications in planning, particularly expert systems and urban Geographic Information Systems. She is the co-editor of two books on expert systems applications in planning (Expert Systems: Applications in Urban Planning, Spinger-Verlag, 1990; Expert Systems in Environmental Planning, Springer-Verlag, 1992). A book on GIS applications in transportation planning is forthcoming. Recent funded research includes work on GIS applications in transit planning (University Transportation Center, MIT; National Transit Institute, Rutgers University), in housing and crime analysis (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), hazards modeling (NJ State Police) and urban brownfields redevelopment (Office of State Planning, New Jersey) and historical and cultural resources (State Historic Preservation Office, New Jersey). Wiggins has also conducted a number of GIS user needs assessments for local governments and state agencies in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.

Wiggins is a member of the Mapping Science Committee of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, a Board member of the International Geographic Information Foundation, on the editorial board of Geo Info Systems, and president-elect of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association.

Refereed Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Books within the Past Five Years

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Lyna Wiggins, ed. 1998. GIS-T: GIS for Transportation Planning and Analysis, Center for Urban Policy Research Press: New Brunswick, NJ.

Azad, Bijan and Lyna L. Wiggins. 1995. "Antecedents of Inter organizational Cooperation for Geographic Data Sharing in Multiparticipant GIS: Framework and Proposal for Research," in Sharing Geographic Data, Harlan J. Onsrud and Gerry Rushton, ed., Center for Urban Policy Research: New Brunswick, NJ.