New
01/2020 |
Das VASAB Secretariat has now published the results of the
Accessibility in the Baltic Sea Region project.
The research report produced by S&W
Accessibility of the Baltic Sea Region Past and Future Dynamics as well as a
comprehensive
Brochure with the same title summarising essential results can be downloaded from the VASAB website.
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11/2019 |
For the regional plan of the region Oberfranken-West S&W
will prepare an analylsis of the provision of facilities and services of social and cultural infrastructure.
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11/2019 |
On 12 November 2019, during the Geographical Week of the Charles University in Prague, Klaus Spiekermann
gave two presentations about accessibility research at different spatial levels and advised representatives
of the Geographical Institute on the development of
an accressibilty model to assess the impacts of a potential high-speed rail network in the Czech Republic.
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10/2019 |
S&W was commissioned by the region of Ostwürttemberg
to prepare an expertise about the functional structure of the transport networks following the central-place
concept of the Guidelines for Integrated Network Design (RIN).
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10/2019 |
On 12 October 2019 Björn Schwarze presented intermediate results of the
Expertise on Services of General
Interest, in particular the Definition of Basic Centres, in the session of the planning committee
of the Regional Association Main-Rhön.
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10/2019 |
On 23 October 2019 Klaus Spiekermann gave a presentation "Mapping European Time Space" at the Department
of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano. The presentation was part of the International Seminar
Building Multiscalar Scenarios on advanced
techniques for image warping of maps through time parameters.
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08/2019 |
For the MORO project finished last year
Spatial Monitoring of Germany and Neighbouring Regions now the
Report in English was published in the MORO Praxis series and can be ordered in printed or digital form.
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06/2019 |
S&W will prepare a location analysis for the establishment of a regional medical service centre (MVZ) in the
Region Leinebergland in Lower Saxony.
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06/2019 |
For two accessibility analyses prepared by S&W for ESPON now the reports are available for download on the
ESPON website, the final reports of the studies
Maritime Accessibility and
Future Accessibility in Europe. The results of these studies were used in several other ESPON
publications.
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04/2019 |
In the project Further Methodological
Develoment of the Accessibility Analyses of the BBSR the
final report appeared in the series BBSR Online Publications and can
be downloaded from the BBSR-Homepage.
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04/2019 |
Björn Schwarze presented in the Planning Committee meeting
of the
Planning Association Regensburg on 12 April 2019
S&W's expertise for the provision of facilities and services of social
infrastructure for updating the regional plan.
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01/2019 |
Michael Wegener reported at the University of Newcastle on 9 January 2019 about the
project Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition
in the Ruhr Area.
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12/2018 |
For the Regional Planning Assoication Main-Rhön S&W prepares an
expertise for the provision
of servives of general interest, in particular for the definition of the lowest level of central
places for updating the Regional Plan Main-Rhön.
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11/2018 |
In the process of elaboration of the
Regional Mobility Concept for the Ruhr Metropolis first analysis results are published
by the Regional Planning Association Ruhr (RVR) on a
press conference.
The draft Analysis Report can be downloaded from the RVR homepage.
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10/2018 |
For the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
(BBSR) S&W continues the work of cross-border spatial observation with a new MORO project
Establishing a Spatial Observation System for Adjacent Foreign Regions.
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08/2018 |
For the planning region of Regensburg S&W analyses the Provision and Installation of Facilities and Services of Social Infrastructure and
their Accessibility.
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06/2018 |
For the Regional Association of
Ostwürttemberg S&W conducts high-resolution disaggregation of population and comprehensive
analysis of accessibility of services of general interest by car, public transport, bicycle and walking and
corresponding future scenarios.
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06/2018 |
Michael Wegener reported at the conference Transport, Climate Change and Clean Air of the
World Conference of Transport Research Society on 21 June in Gif-sur-Yvette near Paris about the
project Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition
in the Ruhr Area.
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06/2018 |
At the conference Urban Mobility Shaping the Future Together mobil.TUM 2018
on 13 June 2018 Michael Wegener reported about the project
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area. The conference paper
Modelling the great transformation
in the Ruhr Area submitted for the conference received the Best Paper Award of
mobil.TUM 2018.
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05/2018 |
At the VASAB Stakeholder Workshop
on 15 May 2018 in Brussels Klaus Spiekermann in his presentation showed
results of the project Accessibility of the
Baltic Sear Region.
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05/2018 |
The MORO Practice Report Spatial
Monitoring Germany and Bordering Regions prepared by S&W presents the results of the
project of that name: cross-border spatial structures and
developments in Germany with neighbouring countries and their regions. The publication called
the Small Spatial Development Report+ by the BBSR can be be obtained in printed or digital
form in German language and, in shorttened versions, also in Dutch, Czech, Danish, French and
Polish translations from the BBSR.
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03/2018 |
A revised version of the Model Description
of the IRPUD model is now online available.
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03/2018 |
For the elaboration of the
Regional Mobility Concept for the Ruhr Metropolis S&W will prepare a series of detailed
accessibility analyses for the Ruhr Area.
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02/2018 |
At the Dortmund Conference on Spatial Planning and Research 2018:
The Great Transition Challenges and Opportunity for Spatial Planning
at TU Dortmund University on 5-6 February
S&W was represented with three presentatons of the projects
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area,
Spatial Monitoring: Germany and Neighbouring Regions
and
Evaluation and Planning of Power Lines: Powerline Planning.
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12/2017 |
For the planning regions
Oberfranken-Ost and
Oberpfalz-Nord S&W analyses the provision of facilities and services of social infrastructure
und their accessibility.
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11/2017 |
Michael Wegener talked about planning information systems at the seminar Neue Methoden der
Entscheidungsunterstützung in der Siedlungsplanung das Beispiel Projekt-Check
at the Research Institue for Regional and Urban Development in Dortmnd on 9/11/2017.
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11/2017 |
The international conference "Spatial Observation Germany and adjacent Regions" was also the
final conference of the MORO project
with the same name organised by S&W. The conference took place with about 80 participants from Germany and abroad
on 9 and 10 November 2017 in the Ernst-Reuter-Haus in Berlin.
A
documentation of the individual presentations can be downloaded from the BBSR home page.
Björn Schwarze and Klaus Spiekermann showed in their
presentation central results of the MORO project.
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10/2017 |
At the transnationalen ESPON conference
Southern Europe at the Crossroads Klaus Spiekermann gave two presentations based on
previous ESPON projects on accessibility evidence: TEN-T and air transport and Territorial scenarios for potential accessibility
for the years 2030 and 2050.
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10/2017 |
S&W has started to work on data, analyses and scenarios
of medical services as well as acessibilities of services of general interest for the region
of Leinebergland.
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09/2017 |
Klaus Spiekermann and Michael Wegener reported about the work of S&W on European spatial development at the Symposium
Understanding and Shaping Europe: 25 Years of Spatial and Urban Development Division in the BBSR
on 19 September 2017 in Bonn.
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08/2017 |
For the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) S&W conducts
the project Further Development of Accessibility Analyses of BBSR.
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06/2017 |
S&W was awarded another project of the 2020 ESPON Programme
ESPON BT2050 Territorial Scenarios for the Baltic Sea Region,
in which possible spatial developments in the Baltic Sea Region are to be explored by contrasting scenarios.
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06/2017 |
Michael Wegener reported on the results of the project
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area
at the Applied Urban Modelling
Symposium at the University of Cambridge.
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05/2017 |
A the ESPON seminar in Malta Klaus Spiekermann presented the ESPON projects
Maritime Accessibility
and Future Accessibility.
Results of these projects also entered the ESPON Policy Brief presented at the seminar
Shaping New Policies in Specific Types of Territories in Europe.
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04/2017 |
With the publication of the broschure
Die Energiewende regional gestalten Auf dem Weg zu einer Energiewende-Roadmap im Ruhrgebiet
the project funded by the Mercator Foundation
Energy Transition of the Ruhr came to a close.
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04/2017 |
SuW has started to work on a study on the current and expected
Accessibilities in the Baltic Sea Region for the VASAB Secretariat.
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03/2017 |
The Final Report "Cities and Climate
Change: Ruhr Area 2050. Integrated Ruhr Area Model and Regional Modal Shift" of the project
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the Ruhr
Area has been published and can be downloaded from the
project page.
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02/2017 |
In the MORO project
Spatial Observation - Germany and Neighbouring Regions S&W conducted
in the Ernst-Reuter-Haus in Berlin on 9 and 10 February 2017 the conference "Germany and Neighbouring
Regions - Ways to Spoatial Observation" with 65 participants from Germany and abroad. A
documentation of the conference with the individual presentations is available on the project
pages of the BBSR. Björn Schwarze and Klaus Spiekermann showed in their
presentation the conception and first recommendations for the discussed questions.
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12/2016 |
In the model project Long-term Provision of Services and Mobility
in Rural Regions S&W supports the rural counties of Hildburghausen, Holzminden,
Merzig-Wadern and Sonneberg through small-scale assessments of future population development.
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11/2016 |
At the final conference of the
Framework Programme for the Implementation
of the Energy Transition in the Municipalities of the Ruhr Area of the
Stiftung Mercator
in Essen on 3 November 2016 the project participants reported on the results of the project
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the
Ruhr Area .
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11/2016 |
The regional association SPESSARTregional commissioned S&W to update and complement a
regional database on population development, services
of general interest and accessibility.
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11/2016 |
On 2 November 2016 Michael Wegener gave a presentation
"Urban and regional models: integration across spce, time and policy fields" at the
Symposium for the Integration of Land-Use and
Transport Models at the Study and Science Center of the Technical Unicversity of Munich in
Raitenhaslach.
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10/2016 |
At the NECTAR International Workshop Transport Infrastructure
for Better Accessibility, Equity and Territorial Cohesion on 20 October 2016 Klaus Spiekermann
gave one of the Keynote lectures on the topic
Accessibility in Europe. Between Global and Local Perspectives.
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10/2016 |
In the ESPON project Scenarios for Accessibility by the Sea, Road, Rail, Air
and Multimodal S&W will in the future examine the accessibility patterns to be expected for the different
transport modes in the European regions.
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10/2016 |
In the ESPON project Accessibility by the Sea Indicators
S&W will determine a selection of transport geography and acessibility indicators of European ports.
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05/2016 |
Together with three other European research institutions S&W was awarded
the two-year ESPON project
Possible European Territorial Futures.
In the project the spatial impacts of different developments in the fields of
circular economy, renewable energy and land markets are to be investigated in scenarios.
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05/2016 |
In the ESPON project
Modelling "Less Efficient Regulation" S&W combined the scenarios of the
spatial development of Europe they had developed in the ESPON project
ET2050 with
assumptions about the efficiency of the implenmtation of EU subsidy policies.
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04/2016 |
The final reports of two student projects on regional topics,
Universitätsstadt Barop and Räumliche Szenarien für die Ruhrstadt 2030,
were made available for download in pdf format.
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03/2016 |
Under the project leadership of the
Chair of Graphical Systems of TU Dortmund University S&W collaborates in a project
on the multicriteria evaluation and planning of high-voltage electric power lines.
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02/2016 |
On 3 and 4 March 2016 the
Start Workshop
of the project Spatial Observation Germany and
Neighbouring Regions took place at the Federal Institute for Research on Bulding,
Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in Bonn with representatives of the supported
regions.
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02/2016 |
Kristine Brosch, Felix Huber, Björn Schwarze, Klaus Spiekermann and Michael Wegener
reported at the Dortmund Conference on Spatial Planning and Research 2016:
Spatial Patterns Structure, Dynamic, Planning
at TU Dortmund University on 22-23 February
on new results of the project
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area
.
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02/2016 |
The PhD thesis of Björn Schwarze "Eine Methode zum Messen von Naherreichbarkeit
in Kommunen" has now been published as book
and
online edition.
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01/2016 |
S&W was commissioned by ESPON to examine the spatial scenarios they had developed in the project ET2050
with respect to the impacts of less efficient implementation of EU subsidy policies. More details in
Modelling "Less Efficient Regulation".
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11/2015 |
Klaus Spiekermann and Michael Wegener reported on the ESPON projects
ET2050: Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe
and TRACC: Transport Accessibility at Regional and Local Scale
and Patterns in Europe at the Seminar The European Research Network ESPON: Results and Outlook
on the New Programme in Berlin on 12 and 13 November 2015.
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10/2015 |
S&W was awarded the research project
Spatial Observation Germany and Neighbouring Regions
of the Federal Institut for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development in the
Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBSR)
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07/2015 |
The Oral Defence of the PhD thesis of
Björn Schwarze "Accessibility as Strategic Goal of Spatial and Transport Research: an Approach
to Evaluate Local Accessibility in Communities" took place at TU Dortmund University on 14 July 2015.
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07/2015 |
Klaus Spiekermann und Michael Wegener reported on the contribution of S&W in the ESPON Project
ET2050: Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe
at the 8th Summer Conference in Regional Science in Kiel on 2 and 3 July 2015.
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06/2015 |
Björn Schwarze, Klaus Spiekermann and Michael Wegener reported on threee conferences
about first results of the project
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area:
at the international conference
Polycentric City Regions in Transformation at Zeche Zollverein in Essen,
at the conference
Towards a Roadmap for the Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area in
Oberhausen and at the
Applied Urban Modelling Symposium at the University of Cambridge.
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04/2015 |
The ESPON project TRACC on global, European and regional accessibility of European regions
led by S&W has now been completed. The Final Report can be downloaded from
ESPON TRACC or from the
ESPON homepage.
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02/2015 |
Invited by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) Michael Wegener worked
in an international advisory group to support the rural communities in the West Bank to implement their
land use plans under Israeli occupation as a contribution to the Peace Process.
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01/2015 |
Michael Wegener reported about the project
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area at the
Symposium Current Approaches to Urban Complexity at the University of Duisburg-Essen
on 14 January 2015 and at the Workshop on Advanced Model Integration of the University
of Maryland in Annapolis on 22 January 2015.
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01/2015 |
The digital version of the ESPON ATLAS
developed by S&W is now available online. It allows interactive access to the contents of
the Atlas and to view individual text and graphics elelemts.
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12/2014 |
S&W played a major role in the preparation of the new
ESPON ATLAS.
It is possible to order the printed version of the atlas or download it as
PDF.
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10/2014 |
Klaus Spiekermann und Michael Wegener reported on the ESPON projects GREECO
and ET2050 at the BBSR Workshop
ESPON on the Road in Bonn on 22 October 2014.
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10/2014 |
The main results of the ESPON project ET2050
"Territorial Scenarios and Visions for Europe" were
published in a
Brochure which can be ordered or downloaded on the ESPON website.
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09/2014 |
The
synthesis map of the analysis of regional performance in green economy conducted by
S&W in the ESPON project GREECO was selected by ESPON as the "map of the month". In addition the
analysis is essential part of an
ESPON Evidence Brief.
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09/2014 |
Klaus Spiekermann und Michael Wegener participated in the ESPON Workshop Scenarios and modelling
in the framework of exploring Territorial Cohesion in Brussels on 4 September 2014.
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08/2014 |
The
Final Report on the central data services performed by S&W for the action programme
Regional Services of General Interest is now available for download on the
BBSR website.
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07/2014 |
Michael Wegener participated in the ESPON Rounrd Table
"Making Europe Open and Polycentric" at the AESOP Annual Congress 2014
in Utrecht on 10 July 2014. |
05/2014 |
S&W performed a detailed
accessibility analysis for the search of a new location for the Savings Bank
Academy of North-Rhine Westphalia used in the evaluation process of potential new locations.
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05/2014 |
On 13 May 2014 Björn Schwarze presented results of a study on the accessibility
of basic medical services by public transport in the county of Mecklenburgische
Seenplatte at the management committee of the Regional Planning Association
Mecklenburgische Seenplatte. Excerpts of the results of the analysis are contained in the
Monitoring Report 2014
Basic Medical Services in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte.
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05/2014 |
Felix Huber and Klaus Spiekermann report on ESPON projects on
Accessibility
and Spatial Development
in the series "Germany in Europe. Results of the Programme ESPON 2013" of the
Federal Institute of Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Regional Development
(BBSR).
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05/2014 |
S&W conducts a comprehensive location and accessibility analysis of health care provision for
the model region
Mittelmosel in the programme
"Strong Municipalities Strong State" of the Ministry of Interior, Sports and
Infrastructure of the state of Rhenania-Palatinate.
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04/2014 |
Rainer Winkel and Klaus Spiekermann report on ESPON projects on
Demographic
Change and Services of General Interest
in the series "Germany in Europe. Results of the Programme ESPON 2013" of the
Federal Institute of Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Regional Development
(BBSR).
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03/2014 |
Together with Marcin Stepniak Klaus Spiekermann edited a special issue
Transport Accessibility at Regional Scale in Europe of the jorunal EUROPA XXI
of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The special issue
contains reports on case studies of the ESPON project
Transport Accessibility at
Regional/Local Scale and Patterns in Europe (TRACC).
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01/2014 |
S&W conducts an update of indicators of potential accessibility for the ESPON project
Matrices.
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01/2014 |
Upon several requests we post a new page about the
time-space maps developed by us in the 1990s with examples, references
and two working papers about the methodology of developing time-space maps for download.
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12/2013 |
In 2013 about 70.000 people visited our website, on average 280 visits per working
day a growth of over 500 per cent in the last five years
(see diagram). They downloaded about
60.000 Megabytes, 240 Megabytes per working day.
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10/2013 |
Hans Joachim Kujath and Michael Wegener report on ESPON 2013 projects
on Growth and Innovation
in the series "Germany in Europe. Results of the Programme ESPON 2013" of the
Federal Institute of Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Regional Development
(BBSR).
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07/2013 |
S&W are partners of a research project funded by the Federal Ministry for Economy and
Technology (BMWI) dealing with the further development of
sustainable concepts and methods for the objective mulit-criteria evaluation of
high-voltage powerlines.
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07/2013 |
Michael Wegener reported about the project
Ruhr Area 2050: Modelling the Energy Transition in the Ruhr Area at the
Applied Urban Modelling Symposium (AUM 2013) at the University of Cambridge
and at the conference Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management
(CUPUM 2013) at the University of Utrecht.
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06/2013 |
Björn Schwarze and Klaus Spiekermann present the
methodology and first results of the project Regional Services of General Interest
in the
MORO Informations 10/2 of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building
and Urban Development .
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06/2013 |
Hans Heinrich Blotevogel, Klaus Spiekermann and Michael Wegener report on ESPON 2013
projects on Metropolitan Areas and Rural Regions
in the series "Germany in Europe. Results of the Programme ESPON 2013" of the Federal Institute
of Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Regional Development (BBSR).
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05/2013 |
S&W analyses the Accessibility of Central Places in the State
of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from the perspective of public transport users and users of bicycles and pedelecs
for the Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Spatial Development of the State.
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04/2013 |
On 8 April the kickoff meeting of the
Framework Programme for the Implementation of the Energy Transition in the
Municipalities of the Ruhr Area of the Stiftung Mercator took place.
S&W is involved in a project of the programme. More information on the
project page.
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01/2013 |
Björn Schwarze and Klaus Spiekermann gave a presentation Forecasting Methodology and Accessibility
Scenarios for regional strategies about access to services of general interest
at the
Future Forum Rural Development of the Federal Minsitry for Food,
Agriculture and Consumer Protection in Berlin on 23 January 2013.
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01/2013 |
S&W assessed the regional impacts of a railway tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn as part
of the Rail Baltica in the Interreg project "H-TTransPlan Helsinki-Tallinn Transport
and Planning Scenarios". The Report of S&W is available for download.
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12/2012 |
S&W support the ivm GmbH
(Integrated Transport and Mobility Management Region Frankfurt RheinMain) in planning
of a regional park-and-ride concept by preparing maps of size and capacity utilisation of
existing park-and-ride facilities in the Frankfurt region.
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12/2012 |
Upon frequent requests we make our much quoted report
Accessibility Indicators of 1997 available for download.
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12/2012 |
Together with Spatial Foresight Germany, S&W won the bid for the project
Implementation of the Territorial Agenda 2020: TEN-T and TEN-E
in the Spatial Planning Model Projects Programme (MORO).
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11/2012 |
Wolfgang Schade and Michael Wegener report on ESPON 2013 projects on
Energy and Climate in the series
"Germany in Europe. Results of the Programme ESPON 2013" of the Federal Institute
of Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Regional Development (BBSR).
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10/2012 |
The Stiftung Mercator will fund a
Framework Programme for the Implementation of the Energy Transition in the Municipalities
of the Ruhr Area. S&W is involved in a project of the programme. More information on the
project page.
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10/2012 |
At the seminar
ESPON Serving Transnational Co-operation conducted by the Federal Institute of Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Regional Development (BBSR) in Berlin on 30 October 2012, Klaus Spiekermann reported on results of the ESPON TRACC project.
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10/2012 |
At the
OPEN DAYS 2012: 10th European Week of Regions and Cities conducted by the EU General Directorate Regional Policy in Brussels on 9 October 2012, Klaus Spiekermann reported on results of the ESPON TRACC project.
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10/2012 |
In an INTERREG project of the Aalto University Helsinki, S&W assesses the
impacts of a railway tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn.
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05/2012 |
On 26 May 2012 Franz Fuerst, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Michael
Wegener gave a presentation "Energy efficiency of buildings: a new challenge for urban models"
at the Applied Urban Modelling Conference
2012 at the University of Cambridge.
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05/2012 |
At the seminar
Future Spatial Challenges for Switzerland and Europe - Accessibility, Innovation, Economy
conducted by the Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) on 4 May 2012, Klaus Spiekermann
presented first results of the ESPON TRACC project.
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05/2012 |
In the project ESPON ATLAS, S&W participates in the development of the new
ESPON Atlas 2014.
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03/2012 |
In the exhibition 500 Years Gerhard Mercator.
From Renaissance World View to Modern Cartography in the Dortmund Museum
of Art and Cultural History an interactive computer programme
Rail Travel Times in Europe developed by Klaus Spiekermann fifteen years ago
is shown as an example of modern thematic cartography.
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02/2012 |
On 10 February 2012 Klaus Spiekermann and Michael Wegener gave two presentations at the
Dortmund Conference on Spatial and Planning Research "Mobilities and Immobilities" at the
Faculty of Spatial Planning of TU Dortmund University. Klaus Spiekerman spoke on "Ausreichende
und gerechte Erreichbarkeit der Einrichtungen der Daseinsvorsorge?" and Michael Wegener on
Dialektik der Mobilität.
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01/2012 |
S&W will conduct population forecasts and accessibility modelling for the model regions within the
action programme on Regional Services of General Interest
commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.
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01/2012 |
With the beginning of the year 2012 Björn Schwarze joined
Spiekermann & Wegener Urban and Regional Research as a third partner.
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