Raumordnung im Kontext des demographischen Wandels

Aktuelle Bevölkerungsprognosen zeigen eine zunehmende Alterung der Bevölkerung, also einen signifikanten Anstieg des Anteils der älteren, vor allem der hochaltrigen Bevölkerung, an der Gesamtbevölkerung. Diese Entwicklungen finden vor dem Hintergrund veränderter sozialer Strukturen und polyvalenter Lebensstile statt, was sich in Summe im Begriff „Demographischer Wandel“ ausdrückt. Aufbauend auf dieser Ausgangssituation behandelt diese Arbeit die Verschiebung der Nachfrage nach Gütern und Dienstleistungen sowie die Ausdifferenzierung der Wohnformen und der sozialen Infrastruktur. Es zeigen sich erforderliche Anpassungsleistungen von Politik, Gesellschaft und auch Raumordnung. Dafür werden zunächst mittels einer Analyse bedeutender Raumordnungsdokumente sowie einer Untersuchung auf Gemeindeebene Tendenzen einer Relevanz von Seiten der Raumordnung gegenüber der Thematik ermittelt. Ein Problembewusstsein stellt die Basis für mögliche Handlungen dar. In Folge werden deshalb Maßnahmen für eine zukunftsfähige räumliche Gestaltung aufgezeigt, wobei ein verstärktes Augenmerk auf die Aufrechterhaltung der lokalen Versorgungsstruktur mit Gütern und Diensten des täglichen Bedarfs in strukturschwachen, ländlichen Räumen gesetzt wird. Die vorgeschlagenen Handlungsstrategien bewegen sich abseits von Altenheimen und Seniorenkränzchen, angepasst an eine zukünftig neue „alte Gesellschaft“

Sharing integrated spatial and thematic data : the CRISOLA case for Malta and the European project Plan4all process

Sharing data across diverse thematic disciplines is only the next step in a series of hard-fought efforts to ensure barrier-free data availability. The Plan4all project is one such effort, focusing on the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial planning data as based on the INSPIRE protocols. The aims are to support holistic planning and the development of a European network of public and private actors as well as Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The Plan4all and INSPIRE standards enable planners to publish and share spatial planning data. The Malta case tackled the wider scenario for sharing of data, through the investigation of the availability, transformation and dissemination of data using geoportals. The study is brought to the fore with an analysis of the approaches taken to ensure that data in the physical and social domains are harmonised in an internationally-established process. Through an analysis of the criminological theme, the Plan4all process is integrated with the social and land use themes as identified in the CRISOLA model. The process serves as a basis for the need to view sharing as one part of the datacycle rather than an end in itself: without a solid protocol the foundations have been laid for the implementation of the datasets in the social and crime domains.peer-reviewe

Integrated urban data visualising and decision-making framework

The work package (WP) 2 on Basic Exploration, Stakeholder Studies and Requirement Analysis created the scientific fundament of the project and produced essential knowledge for the conceptualisation of UrbanData2Decide. Task 2.5 brought together the previous research results and elaborated an integrated research model as well as a stakeholder requirements catalogue with first use case scenarios. In this integrated deliverable previous results of WP2 were combined to define a first blueprint for the UrbanData2Decide system as it will be developed later in the project

Stakeholders, Roles, Workflows and Requirements

Decisions makers in cities and urban areas continuously have to make important decisions to react or proactively identify new challenges, problems and conflicts. But as cities and urban areas have become more complex, well‐founded decisions have also become more difficult to make. Decisions cannot be purely based on intuitions but require a basis for assessments, which put great constraints on decision makers and decision making procedures in terms of expertise and knowledge. New technology and sources of information can, however, support decision makers and facilitate the decision making procedures, but at the moment these possibilities are not being leveraged to a greater extent in urban governance

Connecting geodata initiatives to contribute to a European spatial data infrastructure : the CRISOLA case for Malta and the project Plan4all

The Malta CRISOLA case study is investigated in terms of its analysis of the approaches taken to ensure that data in the physical and social domains are tackled within a reliable structure as that provided by the spatial domain through INSPIRE. The crime, social and landuse themes, being pivotal to the model, have served as a bridge across the landuse domains identified as fundamental in the INSPIRE Directive and as expressed in the Plan4all project. The case study is described in terms of its eventual take-up of functions developed by the Plan4all project which are essential for the future successful outcomes as identified in the CRISOLA model. The idea is to disseminate Maltese results to other geoportals including Plan4all geoserver which focuses on the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial planning data. The aims are to support holistic planning through the provision of data services across the spatial and social themes.peer-reviewe

Propelling the Potential of Enterprise Linked Data in Austria. Roadmap and Report

In times of digital transformation and considering the potential of the data-driven economy, it is crucial that data is not only made available, data sources can be trusted, but also data integrity can be guaranteed, necessary privacy and security mechanisms are in place, and data and access comply with policies and legislation. In many cases, complex and interdisciplinary questions cannot be answered by a single dataset and thus it is necessary to combine data from multiple disparate sources. However, because most data today is locked up in isolated silos, data cannot be used to its fullest potential. The core challenge for most organisations and enterprises in regards to data exchange and integration is to be able to combine data from internal and external data sources in a manner that supports both day to day operations and innovation. Linked Data is a promising data publishing and integration paradigm that builds upon standard web technologies. It supports the publishing of structured data in a semantically explicit and interlinked manner such that it can be easily connected, and consequently becomes more interoperable and useful. The PROPEL project - Propelling the Potential of Enterprise Linked Data in Austria - surveyed technological challenges, entrepreneurial opportunities, and open research questions on the use of Linked Data in a business context and developed a roadmap and a set of recommendations for policy makers, industry, and the research community. Shifting away from a predominantly academic perspective and an exclusive focus on open data, the project looked at Linked Data as an emerging disruptive technology that enables efficient enterprise data management in the rising data economy. Current market forces provide many opportunities, but also present several data and information management challenges. Given that Linked Data enables advanced analytics and decision-making, it is particularly suitable for addressing today's data and information management challenges. In our research, we identified a variety of highly promising use cases for Linked Data in an enterprise context. Examples of promising application domains include "customization and customer relationship management", "automatic and dynamic content production, adaption and display", "data search, information retrieval and knowledge discovery", as well as "data and information exchange and integration". The analysis also revealed broad potential across a large spectrum of industries whose structural and technological characteristics align well with Linked Data characteristics and principles: energy, retail, finance and insurance, government, health, transport and logistics, telecommunications, media, tourism, engineering, and research and development rank among the most promising industries for the adoption of Linked Data principles. In addition to approaching the subject from an industry perspective, we also examined the topics and trends emerging from the research community in the field of Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Although our analysis revolved around a vibrant and active community composed of academia and leading companies involved in semantic technologies, we found that industry needs and research discussions are somewhat misaligned. Whereas some foundation technologies such as knowledge representation and data creation/publishing/sharing, data management and system engineering are highly represented in scientific papers, specific topics such as recommendations, or cross-topics such as machine learning or privacy and security are marginally present. Topics such as big/large data and the internet of things are (still) on an upward trajectory in terms of attention. In contrast, topics that are very relevant for industry such as application oriented topics or those that relate to security, privacy and robustness are not attracting much attention. When it comes to standardisation efforts, we identified a clear need for a more in-depth analysis into the effectiveness of existing standards, the degree of coverage they provide with respect the foundations they belong to, and the suitability of alternative standards that do not fall under the core Semantic Web umbrella. Taking into consideration market forces, sector analysis of Linked Data potential, demand side analysis and the current technological status it is clear that Linked Data has a lot of potential for enterprises and can act as a key driver of technological, organizational, and economic change. However, in order to ensure a solid foundation for Enterprise Linked Data include there is a need for: greater awareness surrounding the potential of Linked Data in enterprises, lowering of entrance barriers via education and training, better alignment between industry demands and research activities, greater support for technology transfer from universities to companies. The PROPEL roadmap recommends concrete measures in order to propel the adoption of Linked Data in Austrian enterprises. These measures are structured around five fields of activities: "awareness and education", "technological innovation, research gaps, standardisation", "policy and legal", and "funding". Key short-term recommendations include the clustering of existing activities in order to raise visibility on an international level, the funding of key topics that are under represented by the community, and the setup of joint projects. In the medium term, we recommend the strengthening of existing academic and private education efforts via certification and to establish flagship projects that are based on national use cases that can serve as blueprints for transnational initiatives. This requires not only financial support, but also infrastructure support, such as data and services to build solutions on top. In the long term, we recommend cooperation with international funding schemes to establish and foster a European level agenda, and the setup of centres of excellence

Accessible Web Map Prototyp

<p>This short video clip presents the accessible web map prototype and main developed features. By this video  an impression of the accessible web map pilot and its functionalities is given.</p

Urban Decision-making and Expert Integration

The aim of this Deliverable 2.2 on Urban Decision-making and Expert Integration is to provide an overview of existing approaches, processes, tools and techniques to urban decision-making, and the usage of expert knowledge as well as data and more and more ‘big data’ to support decisions

Analysis of innovative challenges

Plan4all is a European project dealing with spatial planning data interoperability, har-monisation and Spatial Data Infrastructure building. The project is organised in nine work packages (WP), which are further structured into several tasks. This deliverable presents the results of task 2.2 which is part of WP2 – the state of the art analysis – and has the objective to analyse latest developments and innovative challenges in SDI building for spatial planning in Europe. The objective of this deliverable is to assist to pilot partners deploy their infrastructure in WP6.1, to prepare recommenda-tion for possible platforms. The deliverable use results of other two deliverables D 2.1 ―Identification of leading regional and local administration in building SDI for spatial planning‖ describing the detailed situation in single European countries (the report provides a general survey on SDI and spatial planning data in each partner country) and D 2.3 ―INSPIRE Requirements Analysis‖, which analyses requirements coming from INSPIRE directive. The results are based on an analysis of information about relevant software classified according a framework for software classification based on INSPIRE architecture, spataial planning needs and a collection of best practice projects.ECP-2008-GEO-318007, eContentplu

Plan4all networking architecture

During the last decade most of the commercial GIS providers have focused their technology development on the creation of solutions that contribute to building and positioning the world’s geospatial information resources for responsible and effective use. Automated mapping, geographic information systems (GIS), and spatial data communication technologies developed by the major companies have been implementing throughout the D5.2 Plan4all Networking Architecture 75/77 world, contributing significantly to the today status of geospatial information, which became one of the fastest growing fields in IT. On the other hand, the developed Plan4all Networking Architecture requires basic set of networking services in compliance with INSPIRE directive for the sharing of spatial planning data between public sector and other stakeholders. These services could be provided by the majority of the commercial software platforms, but the most appropriate (as balance among interface, functionality and productivity) are ESRI’s Arc GIS platform, as well as Intergraph, Autodesk and Mapinfo integrated products.ECP-2008-GEO-318007, eContentplu