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.
On the occasion of this year's EXPO-REAL in Munich, Klaus Spiekermann presented results of the regional and accessibility analysis for the Aachen region to a high-ranking audience.
S&W is conducting a regional and accessibility analysis for the Aachen Region Association. The analytical focus is on securing skilled workers. Analytical subject areas of the regional portrait include the labor market with its industry and qualification-specific needs, the housing and real ...
S&W determines the current retail-specific catchment areas of the central places in Bavaria. Contracting body for the study is the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy.
S&W was at the 2nd Federal Congress “Day of the Regions”, which took place in Pforzheim from 27th to 29th May 2024. Topic was “Area under pressure – solving conflicts of interest in a planned manner”. Björn Schwarze gave a keynote speech at the special event "Spatial development in ...
On April 9, 2024, Klaus Spiekermann presented the results of the study "Accessibility of airports from border regions" at the parliamentary evening in the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus of the German Bundestag in Berlin.
S&W is working on the research project “15-Minute City” in cooperation with the German Institute for Urban Studies (Difu) and the Research Office Prof. Scheiner (FBS). The project, which is part of the “General Departmental Research” program, is funded by the Federal Ministry of ...
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 ...
S&W is working on the research project “15-Minute City” in cooperation with the German Institute for Urban Studies (Difu) and the Research Office Prof. Scheiner (FBS). The project, which is part of the “General Departmental Research” program, is funded by the Federal Ministry of ...
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 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 ...
