Our Profession
Policy-relevant and practice-oriented innovative research and consulting on the central issues of spatial and transport development at urban and rural, regional, national and European level.
Our Competences
Spatial analysis, modeling, assessment tools and scenarios techniques. We develop and apply state-of-the-art methods of spatial analysis and simulation, location analysis, geographic information systems, forecast models and modern methods for visualising.
S&W participated in the 1st International 15-Minute City Workshop "The 15-Minute City Concept and Transition Conflicts" in Berlin on October 29-30, 2025. More information about the DUT project can be found at https://www.tuneto15.eu/ ...
The aim of the publication „Die Stadt der Viertelstunde“ is to provide a comprehensive empirical approach to the 15-minute city in Germany from two closely related perspectives (spatial structural supply, realised demand) in order to subsequently derive recommendations for action. Three ...
On April 8, 2025, Björn Schwarze presented the results of the regional and accessibility analysis for the Aachen region, focusing on securing skilled workers, at the association meeting of the Region Aachen Association. The study provides the Aachen region with a data-based foundation for ...
Björn Schwarze and Klaus Spiekermann gave a presentation on the 15-Minute City at the CIPU Colloque on March 6, 2025. The CIPU (Cellule nationale d’Information pour la Politique Urbaine) is the interdisciplinary national platform for urban policy in Luxembourg.
The project TuneTo15 explores the transfer of the 15-minute city to functional urban areas in the context of socio-spatial disparities and transition conflicts. The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) as part of the EU funding program "Driving ...
On the occasion of this year's EXPO-REAL in Munich, Klaus Spiekermann presented results of the regional and accessibility analysis for the Aachen region to a high-ranking audience.
In recent years, many cities have incorporated the concept of the 15-minute city as a guideline in their planning strategies. This concept envisions urban planning in which all important places and services for daily needs (work, shops, schools, doctor's offices, leisure activities, and much more) ...
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 ...
Metropolitan border regions are characterised by complementary metropolitan functions and, consequently, by particularly intensive cross-border linkages. The cross-border accessibility of the facilities and sites associated with these metropolitan functions is of crucial importance for the overall ...
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 ...
