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The accessibility models by S&W are among the most recognised models of their kind in Europe due to their theoretical foundation, practical and political relevance and their visualisation techniques. They are used at all spatial levels (including cross-border) from the local to the regional, national to the European scale and in a wide range of detail (e.g. complete integration of public transport timetable data with the public transport module). Uni-, inter- and multimodally, they include numerous modes of transport (car, public transport (overall service, rail, public transport, ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 "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 ...
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 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 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 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
