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.

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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.

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.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.

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APPLICATION AREAS AND BENEFITS

Patrick Junghuber2020-08-24T14:51:14+02:00

AlpBC

This is where the AlpBC project comes in and aims to develop and implement new community and interdepartmental planning concepts.

Patrick Junghuber2020-08-24T15:01:20+02:00

Almregion

Alpine pasture region - A centuries-old cultural landscape, which would deserve the title "world cultural heritage", is at the mercy of radical change.

Patrick Junghuber2020-08-24T15:12:03+02:00

AlpHouse

Alphouse aims to improve the competitiveness of regional SMEs by providing them with knowledge, skills and tools.

NEWS FROM THE RESEARCH STUDIO

ULTIMOB project created mobility solutions for four pilot regions

After four and a half years, the ULTIMOB project came to an end. During this time, projects were developed in the greater Salzburg area, [...]

Expert dialog: iSPACE presents thermal atlas

The research results of the GEL S/E/P I and II projects were presented at the expert dialog on municipal heat planning as a building block of municipal heat planning. Ingrid Schardinger presented the heat atlas.

How can we achieve a new urban quality of life?

On October 24, around 30 participants from the building department, urban and transport planning, politics, the SIR - Salzburg Institute for Spatial Planning and Housing and the Department of Geoinformatics Z_GIS, among others, addressed the question of how urban quality of life works.

Our research team

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.