Projects

What our models have been used for, per client and with the year. Where the work is public we link to the report or to the application itself. This is the full record we keep, so it includes assignments that have finished and models that have since been replaced.

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)

Our longest client relationship, and older than the agency's present name. The model that became the RuimteScanner was adopted in 1996 by sector 5 of the RIVM, which grew into the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) and merged in 2008 with the Spatial Planning Agency (RPB) to form PBL. It has been in continuous use for national policy analysis since 1997.

Land use

Accessibility

Energy

Population

Joint Research Centre, European Commission

European work began with the EU-ClueScanner, built for DG Environment and the JRC to support ex-ante assessment of policies with a spatial impact: which developments are likely in the coming decades, and how would a proposed policy change European land-use patterns and the things that depend on them, such as biodiversity. That model became the predecessor of LUISA, and derivatives followed for specific questions.

  • 2025-2026 IGOR: splitting gridded population totals into five-year sex and age groups
  • 2024-2025 CRISP: downscaling global population projections to a 1 km grid, behind the UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025
  • 2023-2025 World-wide network model: a routable road network for the entire planet
  • 2022-2024 CUSA2: accessibility along African infrastructure corridors
  • 2022-2026 European network model: service accessibility across European countries, and which facilities should stay open
  • 2022-2023 Cocoa plantations in Africa
  • 2021 VaLUISA
  • LUISA, the land-use component of the JRC's territorial modelling platform
  • LUISA-BEES, LUISA with an ecosystem services and bio-economies module

Deltares

Since 2025 our relationship with Deltares has been extended with multiple new projects using the RuimteScanner model.

Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK)

  • 2024 VoorzieningenTool, for the programme Elke regio telt: which amenities a region can reach, and what changes when one closes

Provinces and municipalities

United Nations

OECD

  • Rural accessibility and service provision: catchments, settlement hierarchies and accessibility indicators from our European network model, computed the same way for every country so results can be compared across borders, together with the facility location analysis of which services should be where

Research and education

  • 2023-2025 City & Co, The Hague University of Applied Sciences: accessibility indicators for ageing cities
  • 2011 PC4 travel-time matrix for Nederland van Boven (VPRO)

International

  • 2014 onwards Bangladesh Delta Scanner, with Deltares and CEGIS: in use in Dhaka
  • Land Use Scanner Germany, with the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR)

Also working with

TNO on modelling assignments, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Spatial Economics, SPINlab and IVM) on research, Stichting In Fact and In Fact Research on the social domain, and BaasGeo and Mapification on web mapping. Care organisations we have worked for include Stichting Zorgcentra Rivierenland and Stichting Zinzia Zorggroep; other companies include TDA Analytics, InnDev, GeoMarktprofiel and Advies-Bron.

The reports and articles that came out of this work are on publications.