We support our customers with well-founded research studies, planning and expert opinions. Our clients include European institutions, research institutes, federal ministries and associated authorities, state ministries and associated authorities, regions and planning associations, districts, cities, foundations, other public institutions and companies.
The exact form of our work and services is agreed in advance between the customer and us.
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
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, ...
Modern transport technologies reduce the time to overcome space; measured in units of time, space is 'shrinking'. Time-space maps represent this interaction between space and time cartographically. In time-space maps the distance between two points is not proportional to their physical distance (as ...
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 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 ...
