The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Research projects

The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) supports federal politics with its projects. The projects deal with current issues of spatial planning, urban development as well as building and housing. They reveal the need for political action and provide scientifically sound bases with which political instruments and measures can be further developed.

You can find an overview of current and completed research projects on this page. You can use the search function to search for specific topics using key words.

6 Search results

Implementing the Territorial Agenda 2030 Type: Research Project

The Territorial Agenda 2030 (TA2030) is a political framework agreement of the European states on the key objectives of spatial development in Europe. Under the German EU Council Presidency, the ministers responsible for spatial planning adopted this document on 1 …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: July 2020 – November 2023

Methodological enhancements of BBSR's accessibility analyses Type: Research Project

BBSR's accessibility analyses are an important base for assessing the performance, efficiency and quality of transport infrastructures and settlement systems. They inform also about regional quality of supply and equity issues and thus give hints for the development of …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: July 2017 – November 2018

Implementing the Territorial Agenda 2020: impacts of European sector policies in selected model regions - enhancing regional potentials in the context of further developing the TEN-T Type: Research Project

Following the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, territorial cohesion has become an objective of European policies. The Territorial Agenda 2020 calls for more intensive cooperation between spatial development policy and sector policies, such as the transport policy. This …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: November 2012 – February 2015

Accessibility and mobility requirements in large-scale communities Type: Research Project

Embedded in the research program MORO the research project analysed the accessibility and the mobility requirements of metropolitan regions in Germany. The project aimed at deriving recommendations for the future development of regional and long-distance transport …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: January 2011 – September 2013

How transnational projects contribute to implementing the Territorial Agenda of the European Union (topic "Mobility and Transport") Type: Research Project

Mobility and transport are important intervention areas for promoting economic, social and territorial cohesion in Europe. The study particularly examines how transnational cooperation projects (INTERREG B) contribute to mobility and transport and how spatial planning …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: June 2011 – February 2012

Strengthening urban regions and metropolitan areas through better accessibility between Germany and Poland Type: Research Project

The project aimed at a better supraregional accessibility in the German-Polish border area. In the context of an exchange of experience between German and Polish experts, proposals based on current analyses and recommended procedures were worked out. They deal with the …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: November 2009 – December 2010

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