The year 2024 has been full of new projects and excitement so far!
🚀 We are thrilled to announce that the development of GOAT 2.0 is nearly complete following the closed beta phase. The official launch of
GOAT 2.0 is set forSeptember 18, 2024! 🚀
In this issue, you will find news on projects such as KL. Navi for the city of Kaiserslautern or the urban climate dashboard for the BBSR. Additionally, we highlight how we use data from the GermanCensus 2022 in GOAT and share our involvement in the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Metropolregion München. 🏙️ 🌳 🤝
How do public transport quality and net rent relate? 🏙️
Who hasn't eagerly waited for the results of the 2022 census? Although not everything is yet published in the highest resolution (100 x 100 meters), there are already some highlights – for example the data on the net rent.
We immediately integrated the new data into GOAT and thus investigated an exciting question: How strongly are the public transport quality and the net rent related?
We calculated the public transport quality throughout Germany and created an average value of the public transport quality per municipality on the basis of a weighting with population data from the census. These were then correlated with net rents from the census. Our maps already show a strong relationship visually: As expected, rents are high when the public transport quality is high – and vice versa.
But there are also exciting exceptions.
A look at the metropolitan regions of Germany shows particularly interesting results:
👉 The Stuttgart metropolitan region has the strongest correlation between net rent and public transport quality with an R² of 0.51.
👉 In the Nuremberg metropolitan region, there seems to be only a weak link with an R² of 0.18. For example, the net rents in the northern part of the garden city of Nuremberg are in the lower range despite good public transport quality.
This small exercise impressively shows what is possible through the opening of data and powerful analysis functions. We are currently planning to prepare further analyses in a white paper and look forward to your comments and ideas! 💡
For Kaiserslautern, we are developing KLNavi, an innovative routing application for people with mobility impairment. It is based on the experience from GOAT and uses, for example, OpenTripPlanner and the Digitransit UI.
Green spaces an important indicator in reducing
heat stress 🌳
We are very pleased that Plan4Better, as part of the consortium of Leibniz Institute for ecological spatial development e. V. (IIR), LUP – Luftbild Umwelt Planning GmbH and Bauchplan Munich, has been awarded the contract for the project “Stadtklimadashboard” by the Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (BBSR). The project makes an important contribution to climate adaptation. The objective of the research project is the implementation of a nationwide indicator system for adaptation to climate change in cities. Within this framework, we are developing a modern WebGIS dashboard based on GOAT, which prepares the data and indicators of the partners in an attractive and targeted way. The dashboard will be available for nationwide use as a federal urban climate monitoring tool from 2027.
Plan4Better is now a proud member of the IBA! We are very much looking forward to cooperation and exchange on innovative approaches for the city and region in the context of sustainable mobility and urban development. The IBA Metropolitan Region of Munich starts the search for groundbreaking and visionary ideas on the topic of “spaces of mobility”. Thus, the first IBA ever on the topic of mobility enters an exciting phase. Stakeholders from municipalities, businesses and science as well as civil society initiatives are now invited to submit novel project ideas: from buildings to virtual spaces to innovative research projects or planning processes. With the ten-year term of the IBA, an exciting journey full of creative solutions and sustainable innovations awaits us. We look forward to actively participating!
