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The Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy commissioned S&W to delineate the retail-specific catchment areas of the central places in Bavaria. For this purpose, the S&W accessibility model for car trips is applied. Trip origins are the residential ...
The Aachen region consists of the districts of Düren, Euskirchen and Heinsberg as well as the city of Aachen and the Aachen city region. Located west of the major cities of Düsseldorf, Cologne and Bonn, it is located at the border triangle with the Netherlands and Belgium. 1.3 million inhabitants ...
S&W is working on the research project “15-Minute City” in cooperation with the German Institute for Urban Studies (Difu) and the Research Office Prof. Scheiner (FBS). The project, which is part of the “General Departmental Research” program, is funded by the Federal Ministry of ...
The Region Leinebergland e.V. is a municipal association of several towns and communities in Lower Saxony. S&W carried out a location analysis on options for expanding the municipal medical care centre into the area in order to secure GP ...
The Ruhr Regional Association (Regionalverband Ruhr - RVR) is the regional hub of 11 cities and four districts of the Ruhr area, with its five million inhabitants. One of the RVR's tasks is to observe and analyse spatial development. The data for spatial monitoring are documented and regularly ...
The Regional Association of Greater Brunswick (Bundesland Lower Saxony) covers the area of the urban districts of Brunswick, Salzgitter and Wolfsburg and the districts of Gifhorn, Goslar, Helmstedt, Peine and Wolfenbüttel with a total area of 5,090 square kilometres and 1.14 million inhabitants in ...
The Landkreis Holzminden (Bundesland Lower Saxony) comprises 70,000 inhabitants in 32 towns and municipalities. To support the district's tasks of regional development and planning, S&W applied a small-scale population and houdhold projection until the year 2040. The forecast updates the ...
The Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont is located in the south-west of the Bundesland Lower Saxony and has a population of about 150,000 in eight towns and municipalities. To support regional development and planning, S&W conducted a population and households forecast up to 2040 for the towns and ...
The Landkreis Schaumburg is located in the centre of the Bundesland Lower Saxony, west of Hanover. The district is divided into 38 towns and municipalities and has a population of around 160,000. To support regional development and planning, S&W has conducted a population and household forecast ...
The Landkreis Nienburg/Weser is located between Bremen and Hanover in the central Weser River region of the Bundesland Lower Saxony. The district has 36 towns and municipalities with a population of around 120,000. To support regional development and planning, S&W has prepared a population and ...
SPESSARTregional e.V. promotes regional development in the rural part of the Main-Kinzig district. The regional association has twenty municipalities as members. These municipalities are home to 47.5 per cent of the population of the Main-Kinzig district, with an area share of 83.2 per cent.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected and changed almost every aspect of human life. Not only did the health risk increase sharply, but it also changed the way we manage, work, live, commute, move, learn, socialise, communicate, consume, spend leisure time and travel.
On a regional level, the ...
Interdependencies between European countries are well known and strongly documented, but this is not the case for the relations between European regions. This new ESPON project aims at providing a new understanding of the interrelations between Europe’s economies at the regional level. To achieve ...
The spatial observation system of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development in the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBSR) for Germany and Europe is to be supplemented in the medium term with ongoing reporting on neighbouring regions ...
The Main-Kinzig district is the most populous district in the state of Hesse. It has a very heterogeneous settlement structure. While the densely populated south-western part belongs to the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main conurbation, the eastern part of the district is mainly rural. For the 29 towns and ...
The district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald intended to relocate its district administration office in the course of necessary investment decisions. S&W prepared a site assessment in which suitable site options were identified from a transport point of view and evaluated in terms of their ...
We have developed the Land Finder to identify suitable potential for residential and commercial land. The Land Finder is a GIS-based tool that can be used to evaluate spatial geodata and geospecialist data in regions and municipalities and to output suitability values with regard to an intended ...
In the planning region of Upper Franconia-West (one of 18 planning regions in Bavaria), the regional plan chapters "Education, Cultural Affairs" and "Social and Health Services" were due for updating. The planning region was supported by S&W through a survey and analysis of the stock of ...
As almost everywhere in Germany, the average age of the population in the Main-Rhön planning region continues to rise. However, the demographic developments in the 123 member municipalities of the region are heterogeneous. On the one hand, the population will continue to decline in the coming ...
Through the MORO network Daseinsvorsorge, its members expressed the need for a user-friendly data tool for data collection and data updating of structures of regional services of general interest. On behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Construction and Home Affairs (BMI) and the ...
The Region Leinebergland e.V. is a municipal association of several towns and communities in Lower Saxony. In order to improve its GP care, the region planned the new establishment of a regional medical care centre (MVZ) under municipal sponsorship. S&W conducted a site analysis to develop ...
The Main-Rhön region in the administrative district of Lower Franconia is the northernmost Bavarian planning region. The planning area includes the independent city of Schweinfurt and the four districts of Bad Kissingen, Haßberge, Rhön-Grabfeld and Schweinfurt. In the run-up to the update of the ...
In the course of the update of the regional plan of the region Ostwürttemberg a functional structure of the transport networks in the region following the Guidelines of Integrated Network Design (RIN) is to be derived from the central-place organisation of the region. The RIN describe a stragic ...
The Region Leinebergland e.V. has developed a regional strategy to secure the supply of doctors and basic infrastructure in the Leinebergland. The project was funded by the Office for Regional Development Leine-Weser. S&W supported the Leinebergland region during this process. For this purpose, ...
In the project ESPON BT2050 – Territorial Scenarios for the Baltic Sea Region possible spatial developments of the Baltic Sea Region are to be explored. The project aims at the identification of long-term trends and their implications in the Baltic Sea Region and the develoment of three spatial ...
In the Regensburg planning region, the regional plan chapter "Social and Cultural Infrastructure" was redrafted. In the course of this, S&W prepared an expert report that analysed the provision of social infrastructure facilities and services in the Regensburg planning region. The report ...
The Regional Association of Ostwürttemberg is constructively addressing the changes and requirements of demographic development in order to develop strategies for securing the provision of public services and attractiveness, especially in rural areas. S&W updated central information and ...
S&W is member of an international consortium led by the Dortmund transport planning consultancy Planersocietät, which develops a regional mobility concept for the Regional Association Ruhr (RVR): The first topic of the poject is a comprehensive analysis of the mobility and transport situation ...
As a model project of spatial planning (MORO), the project Methodical Further Development of the Accessibility Analyses of the BBSR was carried out on behalf of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development in the Federal Office for Building and Regional ...
In the Planning Region Oberfranken-Ost the chapters of the Regional Plan B VI "Knowledge and Education, Cultural Affairs" and B VIII "Health and Social Affairs" were to be updated. S&W supported the government of Oberfranken by the preparation of an expertise analysing the provision of ...
The VASAB-Secretariat, the co-ordination office of the co-operation of the ministries and agencies responsible for spatial planning and development in the countries bordering the Baltic Sea and their neighbouring countries, has commisioned S&W to conduct a study on accessibilities in the Baltic ...
The project "Spatial Monitoring Germany and Neighbouring Regions" funded by the Demonstration Projects of Spatial Planning (MORO) of the German government has the aim to develop recommendations for the implementation of a permanent spatial monitoring system for German border regions and ...
In the Planning Region Oberpfalz-Nord the chapters of the Regional Plan B VI "Knowledge and Education, Cultural Affairs" and B VIII "Health and Social Affairs" were to be updated. In the course of this S&W prepared an expertise analysing the porvision of facilities and services of social ...
In the ESPON project "Scenarios for Accessibility by the Sea, Road, Rail, Air and Multimodal" S&W determines accessibility patterns to be expected in the future for the regions of Europe. Based on the plans for the trans-European transport networks (TEN-T) road, rail, air and multimodal ...
In the ESPON project "Possible European Territorial Futures" the present situation and expected spatial development of Europe are to be analysed in particular with respect to cohesion aspects. For this the spatial impacts of different developments in the fields of economy, energy and land markets ...
In the ESPON project "Accessibility by the Sea Indicators", S&W determined the maritime accessibility of European seaports. For this purpose, various traffic data were prepared, especially cartographically. This included the traffic volumes and interconnections of the ports as well as the ...
The regional association Regionalverband SPESSARTregional has participated in the action programme Regional Services of General Interest of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure as one of 21 model regions. During the development of the regional strategy and development ...
The district of Holzminden (Lower Saxony) developed a forward-looking integrated location and mobility concept within the framework of the BMVI model project Long-Term Securing of Supply and Mobility in Rural Areas in order to secure an adequate local supply of public and private services and their ...
The district of Merzig-Wadern (Saarland) developed a forward-looking integrated location and mobility concept within the framework of the BMVI model project Long-Term Securing of Supply and Mobility in Rural Areas in order to ensure adequate local supply of public and private services and their ...
S&W supported the districts of Sonneberg and Hildburghausen (Thuringia) in the development of a strategy to secure supply and mobility in rural areas by providing the necessary information bases on the expected demographic development. For this purpose, S&W carried out a population forecast ...
This project was part of the framework programme for the implementation of the energy transition in the Ruhr region of the Mercator Foundation to promote knowledge and problem awareness about the necessity and challenges of the energy transition in the municipalities of the Ruhr region.
As the basis of an ESPON Policy Brief on the spatial consequences of better regulation following the Institutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of the European Commission, S&W combined the scenarios of the spatial development of Europe they had developed in the ESPON project ET2050 with ...
With the political decision for the energy transition in Germany it becomes necessary to transport electricity over long distances and to develop for this topologically optimised power networks and new power lines. This interdisciplinary research project aims at developing sustainable concepts and ...
On behalf of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), S&W has prepared selected results of the ESPON programme on European spatial development in German and from a German perspective with selected co-authors in information brochures. The ...
The action programme on "Regional Services of General Interest", part of the Demonstration Projects of Spatial Planning (MORO) commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, supported selected model regions in rural areas to address the infrastructural challenges of ...
The ESPON project TRACC (Transport Accessibility at Regional/Local Scale and Patterns in Europe) aimed at taking up and updating the results of existing studies on accessibility at the European scale, to extend the range of accessibility indicators by further indicators responding to new policy ...
S&W conducts an update of indicators of potential accessibility for the ESPON project Matrices. The update consists on the one hand in the new calculation of accessibility indicators fpr the updated European NUTS regions (2010) and on the other other hand in the calculation of the same ...
The main objective of this project is to identify European regions with a particular potential for developing a green economy through spatial planning and cohesion policies. The project is to contribute to better understanding the territorial dimension of the green economy based on the natural ...
The ESPON Atlas 2014 is to present a comprehensive overview of key findings of ESPON 2013 projects about European territorial structures, trends and perspectives and policy impacts. The ESPON ATLAS project supports the mission of ESPON of supporting policy development by compiling an "ESPON Atlas ...
The two Saving Bank Academies in North-Rhine Westphalia, Westphalia-Lippe und Rhineland, were in early 2014 consolidated to become the Savings Bank Academy of North-Rhine Westphalia. The educarion and training currently offered at Münster and Düsseldorf is to be performed at one single location ...
The project "Implementation of the Territorial Agenda 2020: Impacts of European Sectoral Policies in Selected Model Regions – Development of Regional Potentials in Connection with the Development of the TEN-T und TEN-E" funded by the Spatial Planning Model Projects Programme (MORO) was to ...
The Ministry of Interior, Sports and Infrastructure of the stae of Rhenania-Palatinate selected six model regions for the Future Initiative "Strong Municipalities – Strong State". In the model regions future tasks of local infrastructure are to be tackled through citizen participation and ...
The aim of this project was to develop a vision of the European territory supported by sound scientific knowledge. In a participatory process different groups of stakeholders were involved in developing the vision to widen thematic, temporal and territorial horizons by imagining a future that ...
The Aalto University Department of Surveying and Planning, YTK Land Use Planning and Urban Studies Group carried out the Central Baltic Interreg IVA project H-TTransPlan (Helsinki-Tallinn Transport and Planning Scenarios). The objective of the contribution of S&W was to assess the impacts of a ...
The Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is presently updating its state development programme, in which accessibility plays a central role. For developing appropriate ways of dealing with changing framework conditions, an analysis of the current accessibility conditions by public transport, ...
The objective of the ESPON project "Best Development Conditions in European Metropolises: Paris, Berlin and Warsaw" (BEST METROPOLISES) is to identify factors that determine the development of European metropolitan areas using Paris, Berlin and Warsaw as examples. The diagnosis is to provide data ...
This project directed by the Chair of Urban Design of the Techical University of Dortmund aimed at producing an annotated atlas of urban form and spatial sturcture of the Ruhr Area. The topic areas of the atlas were selected with a planning orientation: location and size of the Ruhr Area, ...
Objective of this project for the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology was to analyse at which locations in Bavaria different services exist and how accessible they are by different population groups. The project contributed to an assessment of the central ...
The objective of this study for the Regional Development Unit of the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy was to provide accessibility indicators for all municipalities and regions of Finland. Based on detailed raster-based data for population and jobs different accessibility indicators ...
In recent years the public transport authority of Cologne has experienced continued growth in public transport ridership. In peak hours some light-rail corridors are approaching their capacity limits. In co-operation with the Institute of Urban Studies and Sustainable Infrastructure Planning of the ...
The objective of the project "Spatial Impacts of Transport Infrastructure: Ex-post Analysis" was to assess spatial impacts of completed urban transport infrastructure projects, i.e. an ex-post analysis. In the project a GIS-based methodology for the analysis of the imapcts of transport ...
With the start of the new ESPON 2013 Programme a couple of key indicators of the previous programming period were updated. Potential accessibility indicators belong to this group of important indicators for European regions. Since S&W had provided already the update of road and rail ...
HSTimpact was a research project in the framework of two INTEREG IIIB projects, HSTIntegration (HST4i) and HSTconnect. The two projects investigated the development of the high-speed rail network in north-western Europe by focusing on the strategic integration at the regional, national and European ...
In the project for the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMVBS) the results of the ESPON 2006 Programme were reviewed from a German perspective. The results of the project were communicated in a series of reports and workshops with politicians and scientists from Germany. ...
The project for General Directorate Transport and Energy (TREN) of the European Commission aimed at an ex-ante evaluation of several alternative combinations of Eureopen transport projects proposed to be financed in the Programming Period 2007-2013 of the EU multi-annual transport investment ...
In ESPON 1.2.1, S&W had developed potential accessibility indicators for road, rail and air for NUTS-3 regions for the year 2001. These accessibility indicators were used in several ESPON projects and EU documents, among them the Third Cohesion Report of the European Commission. In 2006 ESPON ...
The ESPON project 1.4.4 "Preparatory Study on Feasibility of Flows Analysis" was a feasibility and pilot study preparing for more in-depth research on spatial interactions ("flows") in ESPON 2013. Its main objectives were, building on existing work in ESPON, to give an overview on existing ...
In the ILUMASS project (Integrated Land Use Modelling and Transportation System Simulation), seven German research institutes developed an integrated, end-to-end microscopic simulation model of land use, transport and environmental impacts in urban regions. The ILUMASS model is divided into three ...
The project for the Ministry for Buildung and Transport of the state of North-Rhine Wetphalia aimed at developing criteria for adequate service of public transport and, based on these criteria, proposing alternative rules for the allocation of public transport subsidies in North-Rhine Westphalia ...
This study for the General Directorate for Regional Policy (REGIO) of the European Commission undertook a strategic evaluation of European transport investment priorities under the Structural and Coehsion Funds in the 15 Cohesion countries of the European Union for the Programming Period 2007-2013. ...
The project ESPON 1.1.3 "Enlargement of the European Union and the Wider European Perspective as regards its Polycentric Spatial Structure" looked at the territory of the European Union with special attention to the discontinuities and potentials of the integration of the twelve new member states ...
The objective of this study was to provide an up-to-date picture of the accessibility situation of the Baltic Sea Region through a set of appropriate indicators as background information for the preparation of the Baltic Sea Region Transnational Programme 2007-2013. The "internal and external ...
The aim of the STEPs project (Scenarios for the Transport System and Energy Supply and their Potential Effects) was to develop, compare and evaluate possible scenarios of the future development of the transport system and energy supply, taking into account the autonomy and security of energy ...
The aim of the project was to supplement the project "Investigation of Central Framework Conditions, Instruments and Target Criteria of North Rhine-Westphalia's State Transport Planning" carried out by the Institute for State and Urban Development Research and Construction of North Rhine-Westphalia ...
The project ESPON 2.1.1 was to assess the territorial impacts of EU Transport and TEN policies with respect to how much they contribute to the objectives of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) competitiveness, spatial cohesion and polycentricity. For this the project assessed ...
ESPON 1.2.1 "Transport Services and Networks: Territorial Trends and Basic Supply of Infrastructure for Territorial Cohesion" was to provide an overview of the state and development of the European transport networks of all modes by integrating transport and socio-economic indicators to investigate ...
The objective of ESPON 1.1.1 was to provide the background for a more informed discussion of polycentric development in Europe. For this the project provided an overview of the European urban system with regards to functional specialisations and current degrees of polycentricity as well as a ...
This project was to complement the project "Analysis of Central Constraints, Instruments and Goal Criteria for State Transport Planning in North-Rhine Westphalia" conducted by the Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung und Bauwesen (ILS) for the Ministry for Transport, Energy and ...
The objective of the project "Impacts of Internalisation of External Costs of Transport in Saxony" was to explore possibilities to reduce the environmental impacts of transport in Saxony by prinicng as well as supporting other policies and to assess their effects. S&W was to forecast the ...
The Interreg III B programme "Alpine Space" (2000-2006) aimed at the dvelopment of a political concept for the pan-European Corridor V between France, Italy, Slovenia and Austria as a common strategey for economic and spatial development. The project AlpenCorS ("Alpen Corridor South") focused on ...
PLUME was a research network in the thematic area "City of Tomorrow" of the 5th Research Framework Programme of the European Union. PLUME built on the projects of the Land Use and Transport Research (LUTR) project cluster and other national and international projects on the integration of urban and ...
The project PROPOLIS ("Planning and Research of Policies for Land Use and Transport for Increasing Urban Sustainability") belonged to the Key Action "City of Tomorrow" of the 5th Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development of the European Union. The objectives of the project were ...
In the project for the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development (Nordregio) a review of accessibility concepts, models and indicators was undertaken. The project concluded the work done in a number of studies applying a European perspective to accessibility and peripherality of the Nordic countries. ...
The term "aspatial peripherality" indicates regional deficits which are often associated with peripheral location but can also appear in centrally located regions. In a time when physical distance or travel cost are less and less restrictions to economic activity, such deficits as insufficient ...
The objective of the study commissioned by the "NERP-EU" Committee of the Nordic Council of Ministers was to assess the peripherality of Nordic regions using accessibility indicators. Specifically, the study was to illustrate differences in travel cost throughout Europe and to show the degree of ...
This project supported the work by the City of Dortmund for the city's new transport plan ('Masterplan Mobilität'). The task was to spatially disaggregate socio-economic data, in particular employment data available only at very aggregate level to the travel analysis zones (TAZ) of the transport ...
The objective of this study was to analyse the feasibility of applying an integrated transport and land-use modelling approach to assess the long-term impact of different transport related policies using the urban regions of Bilbao and Helsinki as examples. The task of S&W was to integrate ...
The INTERREG IIC project "The Competitiveness of the Leading European Metropolitan Areas" conducted by the Group for European Metropolitan Areas Comparative Analysis (GEMACA) aimed at generating comparable information and data on the economic development of the major metropolitan regions of ...
