Retail planning in Bonn: data-driven GIS analysis with the WebGIS GOAT
Plan4Better is developing a GIS-based retail planning tool for the City of Bonn — enabling automated accessibility analyses, local supply assessments, and data-driven decisions fully integrated into the Urban Data Platform.
General information
- Client
- City of Bonn
- Period
- 2026
Planning cases
- Digital planning tool for data-driven retail analyses and decisions
- Seamless integration by embedding GOAT into the existing UDP/CIVITAS infrastructure
- Interactive visualization and direct integration into planning processes
Overview
The City of Bonn is seeking sustainable, future-oriented solutions to secure a diverse, easily accessible retail offering as an essential component of public services and quality of life.
To this end, a digital planning and analysis application is being developed as a pilot for the retail sector, which:
- integrates all relevant datasets from the Urban Data Platform (UDP)
- automates key analyses such as accessibility analyses, a local-supply review scheme and forecasts
- interactively visualizes and communicates results
- can be seamlessly embedded into existing planning processes.
Solution approach: GOAT as an integrated analysis environment within the UDP
The application is built on the GOAT WebGIS platform and directly embedded into the UDP—operated under CIVITAS/Core. This ensures ideal integration into Bonn’s existing system landscape by:
providing a seamless connection to the central data infrastructure
- enabling direct use of the geospatial and domain specific data already available in the UDP
- allowing smooth integration into established workflows and planning processes.
Through this integration, a continuous digital application is created—from the data basis through automated analyses to interactive visualization—precisely tailored to the city’s requirements and transferable to other domain specific questions. The project starts with a detailed requirements analysis and data inventory, followed by UI/UX design and agile software development
Catchment Area for Central Supply Area Retail Planning
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