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.
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) ...
S&W, in cooperation with the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) and the Research Office Scheiner (FBS), conducted the research project "The 15-Minute City". The project, which was part of the General Departmental Research Program, was funded by the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Ruhr Regional Association (Regionalverband Ruhr - RVR) is the regional hub of 11 cities and four districts of the Ruhr area, with its five million inhabitants. One of the RVR's tasks is to observe and analyse spatial development. The data for spatial monitoring are documented and regularly ...
The ESPON project IRiE (Interregional Relations in Europe) examined the diverse functional linkages between European regions. While economic and social interdependencies between countries have been widely studied, comparable knowledge about interactions at the regional level remained limited. The ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected and changed almost every aspect of human life. Not only did the health risk increase sharply, but it also changed the way we manage, work, live, commute, move, learn, socialise, communicate, consume, spend leisure time and travel.
On a regional level, the ...
SPESSARTregional e.V. promotes regional development in the rural part of the Main-Kinzig district. The regional association has twenty municipalities as members. These municipalities are home to 47.5 per cent of the population of the Main-Kinzig district, with an area share of 83.2 per cent.
S&W ...
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 Landkreis Holzminden (Bundesland Lower Saxony) comprises 70,000 inhabitants in 32 towns and municipalities. To support the district's tasks of regional development and planning, S&W applied a small-scale population and houdhold projection until the year 2040. The forecast updates the ...
