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.
By analysing scenarios, the effects of different planning measures can be estimated before they are implemented. What-if analyses enable well-founded, comparative assessments and simplify decision-making processes. The interactions between population development, spatial structure and mobility offers can be analysed and visualised in many ways with our scenario analyses models. Our models are spatially and content-wise flexible and can be applied to any study area. They are applied to infrastructure projects or used preventively to find out which sub-areas are at risk of supply deficits in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 project ESPON BT2050 – Territorial Scenarios for the Baltic Sea Region possible spatial developments of the Baltic Sea Region are to be explored. The project aims at the identification of long-term trends and their implications in the Baltic Sea Region and the develoment of three spatial ...
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 ...
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 "Possible European Territorial Futures" the present situation and expected spatial development of Europe are to be analysed in particular with respect to cohesion aspects. For this the spatial impacts of different developments in the fields of economy, energy and land markets ...
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.
As the basis of an ESPON Policy Brief on the spatial consequences of better regulation following the Institutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of the European Commission, S&W combined the scenarios of the spatial development of Europe they had developed in the ESPON project ET2050 with ...
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 aim of this project was to develop a vision of the European territory supported by sound scientific knowledge. In a participatory process different groups of stakeholders were involved in developing the vision to widen thematic, temporal and territorial horizons by imagining a future that ...
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 ...
In recent years the public transport authority of Cologne has experienced continued growth in public transport ridership. In peak hours some light-rail corridors are approaching their capacity limits. In co-operation with the Institute of Urban Studies and Sustainable Infrastructure Planning of the ...
The project for General Directorate Transport and Energy (TREN) of the European Commission aimed at an ex-ante evaluation of several alternative combinations of Eureopen transport projects proposed to be financed in the Programming Period 2007-2013 of the EU multi-annual transport investment ...
In the ILUMASS project (Integrated Land Use Modelling and Transportation System Simulation), seven German research institutes developed an integrated, end-to-end microscopic simulation model of land use, transport and environmental impacts in urban regions. The ILUMASS model is divided into three ...
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 project ESPON 1.1.3 "Enlargement of the European Union and the Wider European Perspective as regards its Polycentric Spatial Structure" looked at the territory of the European Union with special attention to the discontinuities and potentials of the integration of the twelve new member states ...
The aim of the STEPs project (Scenarios for the Transport System and Energy Supply and their Potential Effects) was to develop, compare and evaluate possible scenarios of the future development of the transport system and energy supply, taking into account the autonomy and security of energy ...
The aim of the project was to supplement the project "Investigation of Central Framework Conditions, Instruments and Target Criteria of North Rhine-Westphalia's State Transport Planning" carried out by the Institute for State and Urban Development Research and Construction of North Rhine-Westphalia ...
The project ESPON 2.1.1 was to assess the territorial impacts of EU Transport and TEN policies with respect to how much they contribute to the objectives of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) competitiveness, spatial cohesion and polycentricity. For this the project assessed ...
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 ...
The Interreg III B programme "Alpine Space" (2000-2006) aimed at the dvelopment of a political concept for the pan-European Corridor V between France, Italy, Slovenia and Austria as a common strategey for economic and spatial development. The project AlpenCorS ("Alpen Corridor South") focused on ...
PLUME was a research network in the thematic area "City of Tomorrow" of the 5th Research Framework Programme of the European Union. PLUME built on the projects of the Land Use and Transport Research (LUTR) project cluster and other national and international projects on the integration of urban and ...
The project PROPOLIS ("Planning and Research of Policies for Land Use and Transport for Increasing Urban Sustainability") belonged to the Key Action "City of Tomorrow" of the 5th Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development of the European Union. The objectives of the project were ...
