Smart Settlement Systems2024-08-21T16:50:28+02:00

Research Studio

iSPACE Smart
Settlement Systems

We develop indicators and interactive web tools to make planning strategies more transparent and underpin them with figures and maps.

We develop indicators and interactive web tools to make planning strategies more transparent and underpin them with figures and maps.

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The Research Studio iSPACE Smart Settlement Systems is working with research and business partners to develop indicators and interactive web tools so that planning strategies can be made more transparent and backed up with figures and maps. This creates a basis for strategy development and action planning to strengthen regional competitiveness and enables sustainable spatial developments to ensure quality of life. Cross-thematic trends and challenges of spatial development, such as climate change or demographic change, are given special consideration.

Due to its connection to the University of Salzburg and other research institutes and companies in this field, the Research Studio iSPACE is an important hub in Salzburg.

iSPACE | Geoinformatik |

The Research Studio iSPACE Smart Settlement Systems is working with research and business partners to develop indicators and interactive web tools so that planning strategies can be made more transparent and backed up with figures and maps. This creates a basis for strategy development and action planning to strengthen regional competitiveness and enables sustainable spatial developments to ensure quality of life. Cross-thematic trends and challenges of spatial development, such as climate change or demographic change, are given special consideration.

Due to its connection to the University of Salzburg and other research institutes and companies in this field, the Research Studio iSPACE is an important hub in Salzburg.

iSPACE | Geoinformatik |

iSPACE.forPLANNING

The department iSPACE.forPLANNING works as an international working group on the topics of Smart Settlement Systems. The team develops innovative spatial indicators, location assessment models and planning tools and competent contact for current socially relevant topics. Spatial analyses optimize decision-making processes and are applied in urban and regional planning, mobility planning, spatial research, location and infrastructure planning, and strategic corporate planning.

Research Focus “Smart Settlement Systems”

The integrative research focus “Smart Settlement Systems” combines the latest technologies with requirements from the fields of spatial development, mobility, energy, infrastructure, social affairs and also demography in a cross-system approach. In planning processes, buildings and urban districts are analyzed much more in the context of the respective location profiles and the surrounding infrastructure (networks). The aim is to find comprehensive and integrated solutions that take into account aspects of energy efficiency, environmentally compatible mobility, land consumption and the quality of life of citizens.

iSPACE Smart Energy Balances

for a sustainable economy in a secure, efficient and environmentally conscious energy supply.

The applied research projects of Smart Energy Balances address solutions to spatially motivated questions in the context of regional and supra-regional energy systems. They primarily serve decision-making processes in municipalities, institutions and the energy industry, which face major challenges – such as increasing energy demand, climate protection or geopolitical risks – in the context of their national and international interdependencies.

APPLICATION AREAS AND BENEFITS

2021-06-18T12:50:08+02:00

Spatial Energy Planning II

The global energy market is in a state of flux: in order to achieve the European climate targets, far-reaching changes in our consumption and mobility behavior are necessary.

2021-05-12T17:02:29+02:00

Recompression Monitor

This Demonstrator helps the Measurement of building development in the areas of redensification, building land reserves and restructuring areas.

2021-07-12T12:05:28+02:00

UML Bus Stop 4.0

This Prototype introduces new Testing and evaluation of the functionality, acceptance and transferability of new technical developments with a simplified test requests.

2021-03-02T11:33:48+01:00

BONUS

The BONUS project tries to develope a transferable holistic consulting service to mobilise existing potentials for interior development.

2020-10-16T11:06:38+02:00
ConsultingGeotech

ConsultingGeoTech

Consulting service for provisioning of GEO technologies for an external server evaluation of the transferability of existing data and map services.

2020-08-17T14:09:46+02:00
econtrol

E Control III

Data basis and analysis results of the Spatial Structural Indicators for Grid Tariffs project, which has already been completed on behalf of E-Control.

2020-08-17T16:52:14+02:00
Eurofusion 19

Eurofusion 19

The Eurofusion TIMES model represents a global multiregional bottom-up energy system model with international partners.

NEWS FROM THE RESEARCH STUDIO

INNOVATOUR: New paths for climate-friendly mobility in tourism

The INNOVATOUR research project (sustainable management of needs-based tourism mobility requirements through data innovations) addresses tourism mobility as an important field of action in transport planning. The aim of the project is to develop new mobility indicators by tapping into and analyzing previously unused data sources in order to better understand mobility behavior in tourism and reduce car use. This involves analyzing a wide range of previously unused or hardly used tourism data, such as overnight stays, booking data and admission tickets. In Salzburg and Styria, practical use cases for needs-based mobility services in the environmental network are being developed. The promotion of safe, affordable and sustainable mobility offers in the tourism context as well as more inclusive access should be at the end of the project.

Using spaces instead of wasting space with the project Sharing Hubs

Shared forms of mobility, sustainable (re)allocation of space and attractive, inclusive, needs-based access to mobility in residential and business areas are the aim of the iSPACE Sharing Hubs project. Vehicles should be shared in these hubs, while the existing parking spaces are also to be used in more than one way. The spatial decoupling of living/working and parking promotes shared mobility. In addition, these sharing hubs can be equipped with low-cost e-charging infrastructure and supplemented with services such as parcel boxes.

Our research team

Dr. Thomas Prinz
Dr. Thomas PrinzStudio Manager
Thomas Prinz is Austria’s top expert for geographic information systems and meaningful indicators in the fields of mobility, spatial planning and sustainability.
Dr. Markus Biberacher
Dr. Markus BiberacherKey Researcher
Mag. Dr. Ingrid Schardinger
Mag. Dr. Ingrid SchardingerKey Researcher
Anna Butzhammer, MSc
Anna Butzhammer, MScResearcher (karenziert)
Mag. Sabine Gadocha
Mag. Sabine GadochaResearcher
Günter Gruber, MSc
Günter Gruber, MScResearcher
Mag. Stefan Herbst
Mag. Stefan HerbstResearcher
Dagmar Lahnsteiner, MSc
Dagmar Lahnsteiner, MScResearcher
Florian Schöpflin, MSc
Florian Schöpflin, MScResearcher
Mag. Wolfgang Spitzer
Mag. Wolfgang SpitzerResearcher
Yingwen Deng, MSc
Yingwen Deng, MScJunior Researcher
Johanna Schmitt
Johanna SchmittJunior Researcher
Maximilian Kranabetter
Maximilian KranabetterJunior Researcher
Philipp Krisch
Philipp KrischJunior Researcher
Lisa Riefer
Lisa RieferJunior Researcher
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