News
Short notes on new reports, model releases and publications.
18 November 2025CRISP behind the UN's World Urbanization Prospects 2025The United Nations published its urbanization outlook for 237 countries and more than 12,000 cities. The localised projections in it were produced with the CRISP model.27 October 2025The CRISP model described in fullThe Joint Research Centre published the methodological report behind CRISP, setting out how national population projections are downscaled to a global one-kilometre grid.3 July 2025WLO 2025, four futures for the Netherlands to 2060The scenario study that underpins Dutch cost-benefit analysis was renewed. Population between 18.2 and 21.9 million by 2060, and a very different country in each case.13 March 2025Startanalyse aardgasvrije buurten updatedPBL published the 2025 update of the analysis that sets out, for every Dutch neighbourhood, what it would cost to heat the buildings without natural gas.26 September 2024Beter bereikbaar? Ten years of Dutch accessibility, measuredPBL examined how access to jobs and amenities changed between 2012 and 2022. The gap between people with and without a car grew wider.24 April 2024Deltascenario's 2024, and the land-use maps underneath themDeltares published four scenarios for water in the Netherlands. We produced the land-use maps that feed the national hydrological model.9 February 2024RuimteScanner 2.0 described in fullPBL published the system description of RuimteScanner 2.0, the version that splits the single land-use layer into actors, objects and land use.19 June 2023Planmonitor NOVI, where building plans meet vulnerable landPBL laid the country's housing and business plans over its vulnerable areas. In Drenthe, roughly seventy per cent of possible urbanisation falls in them.16 March 2023Four scenarios for the Netherlands in 2050PBL's Ruimtelijke Verkenning 2023 turned four stories about the future into four detailed maps of the country. The land-use allocation ran on the RuimteScanner.26 January 2023Where can the Netherlands still build? A newsroom asks the modelFollow the Money and Cobouw used the RuimteScanner to work out how much of the country's housing plans sits on land that floods or subsides.31 October 2022Toegang voor iedereen? Access to jobs and amenities, per neighbourhoodThe first PBL report from the accessibility indicators we compute. Thirty per cent of older people cannot reach a hospital within half an hour without a car.