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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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
