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.
The public transport module enables an uncomplicated integration of digital timetable data into the accessibility analyses with S&W's accessibility models. It is used at all spatial levels from municipal to regional, national and European scales. Basically, the public transport module is implemented so flexibly that any digital input formats can be processed. Tried and tested interfaces have existed for many years for the following formats: GTFS, HAFAS, XML, VDV-45x, DIVA/DINO, Excel, Pdf. In more and more European countries digital timetable data is available in GTFS format for ...
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) ...
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 ...
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.
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 Region Leinebergland e.V. is a municipal association of several towns and communities in Lower Saxony. In order to improve its GP care, the region planned the new establishment of a regional medical care centre (MVZ) under municipal sponsorship. S&W conducted a site analysis to develop ...
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 ...
S&W is member of an international consortium led by the Dortmund transport planning consultancy Planersocietät, which develops a regional mobility concept for the Regional Association Ruhr (RVR): The first topic of the poject is a comprehensive analysis of the mobility and transport situation ...
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 ...
The regional association Regionalverband SPESSARTregional has participated in the action programme Regional Services of General Interest of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure as one of 21 model regions. During the development of the regional strategy and development ...
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 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 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 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 ...
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 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 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 ...
