The document discusses the plan4business project, which aims to develop a platform to aggregate, integrate, and analyze urban and regional planning data. This will allow users like researchers, planners, and private sector groups to perform complex analyses and visualizations of trends over time and across regions. The platform will offer planning data and tools via an API and web interface. Key challenges are integrating diverse planning datasets and efficiently querying them. The business model involves data providers, curators, clients, and a data broker hosting the portal to generate revenue from on-demand and subscription services.

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17th International Conference on Urban Planning, Regeional Development and Information Society
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WORKSHOP: Plan4Business
plan4business
A service platform for aggregation, processing and analysis of urban and regional planning data
Urban and Regional Planning data sets are not aggregated so far, and thus it is very difficult to use them for any other purpose than for
printing of simple publishing by the authorities that create them. Creating time series or comparative analyses on these data sets is not yet
possible; researchers, spatial planners and professionals from the real estate world and other disciplines, such as insurance industry, investors,
or market-relevant activities related to urban development seek after such capabilities.
The plan4business project consequently aims to develop a platform that can serve users a full catalogue of planning data such as transport
infrastructure, regional plans, urban plans and zoning plans. The platform offers clients not just the data itself in integrated, harmonised and
thus ready-to-use form, but it also offers rich analysis and visualisation services via an API and an interactive web frontend. Functions offered
range from simple statistical analysis to complex trend detection and to 2D/3D representations of these.
The two main challenges that have so far hindered usage of planning data in such a manner are the required integration and harmonisation,
which needs to be highly automated, as well as the need for an ICT system that can efficiently answer complex queries over the diverse and
complex planning data sets.
The business model for the plan4business platform foresees several different groups of active stakeholders: data providers (planning
authorities, engineering bureaus, researchers), data curators (who perform integration and quality assurance), clients and the data broker who
will be hosting and exploiting the plan4business portal. Revenue is to be generated via on-demand and subscription services to different
customer groups ranging from environmental and planning authorities and companies to banks and real estate dealers and developers.
Project Partners :
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphic Research (Fraunhofer IGD ) Germany
University of West Bohemia (UWB) Czech Republic
Help Service Remote Sensing, s.r.o. (HSRS ) Czech Republic
International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) Netherlands
Geosystems Poland
Avinet Norway
INFOS:
„Plan4Business - A service plattfom for aggregation, processing
and analysis of urban and regional planning data (EU Project)“
Date: Thuesday 15th May 2012, 14:00-15:30, Auditorium 8
Organisation and Moderation:
Fraunhofer IGD, UWB, HSRS, ISOCARP, Geosystems, Avinet