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The ARE is the federal government's centre of excellence for issues concerning spatial development, transport policy, sustainable development and international cooperation in spatial planning matters.

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  • Building zones Switzerland (harmonized)

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The dataset "Building zones Switzerland (harmonized)" is based on the geodata on building zones available to the cantonal offices responsible for spatial planning as of 1.1.2022....

    Last updated: November 24, 2022

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • statistical-units
    • land-use
    • administrative-units
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

  • Settlement

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The ‘Settlement’ is a geodata set of the settled landscape from a spatial development perspective. The data set serves as a geometric reference for various indicators in spatial...

    Last updated: November 13, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • human-settlement
    • residential-area
    • building-area
    • urban-environment-urban-stress
    • built-up-area
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • inspire
    • register
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • urban-environment-urban-stress

  • Landscape typology of Switzerland

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The landscape typology of Switzerland provides a technical basis for addressing a range of questions relating to spatial effects. The landscape typology of Switzerland is primarily...

    Last updated: August 31, 2010

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • landscape
    • bio-geographical-regions
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

  • The wind energy concept – Map indicating federal government interests in the planning of wind energy plants

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The wind energy concept is a concept as defined in Article 13 of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act (SPA, SR 700). The concept defines both the principal federal government interests...

    Last updated: September 25, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • HTML
    • API
    • renewable-energy-source
    • wind
    • wind-power
    • inspire
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

  • Sectoral plan CERN consultation

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Switzerland must promote CERN's long-term development potential, particularly in terms of spatial planning, which has prompted the Federal Council to initiate work on a federal...

    Last updated: November 29, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • federal-authority
    • official-geodata
    • sectoral-plan
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

  • Housing inventory and secondary homes rate

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The apartment inventory map service shows the status in blue primer of the municipalities that are subject to the building regulations of the Second Housing Act (ZWG, SR 702) and...

    Last updated: March 31, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • dwelling
    • inspire
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • register
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

  • Alpine Convention

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The perimeters of the Alpine Convention in Switzerland. The Alpine Convention is an international treaty between the eight Alpine countries: Germany, France, Italy, Liechtenstein,...

    Last updated: January 1, 2009

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • sustainable-development
    • physical-planning
    • mountain-protection
    • soil-conservation
    • environmental-policy
    • environmental-policy
    • transport
    • transport
    • transport
    • environmental-monitoring-facilities
    • administrative-units
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

  • Cities and conurbations which qualify for subsidies

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment, Transport

    The list of cities and conurbations which qualify for subsidies shows which municipalities are entitled to federal subsidies within the framework of the Urban Transport programme...

    Last updated: August 1, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • administrative-units
    • statistical-units
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

  • Crop rotation areas Switzerland (2023)

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The dataset „Crop rotation areas Switzerland (2023)“ is based on the geodata on crop rotation areas available to the cantonal offices responsible for spatial planning as of...

    Last updated: November 28, 2023

    • agricultural-and-aquaculture-facilities
    • statistical-units
    • administrative-units
    • land-use

  • Proportion of areas worth examining from the federal government's perspective for ground-mounted photovoltaic installations of national importance

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    "This dataset represents the proportion of areas worth examinig according to the Confederation. It provides an initial indication of where areas worth examinig are located in...

    Last updated: August 27, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • energy
    • conflicting-use
    • solar-energy
    • register
    • inspire
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • resources
    • natural-areas-landscape-ecosystems

  • Aspects related to the use of ground-mounted photovoltaic installations

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    Aspects related to use as set out in the document "Freistehende Photovoltaikanlagen: Methodische Grundlage des Bundes" (Ground-mounted photovoltaic installations: methodological...

    Last updated: August 27, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • solar-energy
    • conflicting-use
    • energy
    • register
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • inspire
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • climate
    • energy
    • resources

  • Areas worth examining from the Confederation's point of view for ground-mounted photovoltaic installations of national importance

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Regions and cities, Environment

    "The areas worth examining from the federal government's perspective provide initial indications of which areas could be considered as suitable areas in accordance with Article 10...

    Last updated: August 27, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • solar-energy
    • conflicting-use
    • energy
    • register
    • inspire
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • natural-areas-landscape-ecosystems
    • resources

  • Protection interests of the Confederation for ground-mounted photovoltaic installations of national importance

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment

    This is a summary of important protection interests under federal law and other, partly competing interests, as set out in the document "Freistehende Photovoltaikanlagen:...

    Last updated: August 27, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • energy
    • solar-energy
    • conflicting-use
    • register
    • inspire
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • agriculture
    • urban-environment-urban-stress
    • energy
    • natural-areas-landscape-ecosystems

  • Results tables external effects of transport

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Health, Environment, Transport

    Transport and mobility result in a range of costs and benefits. Some of these are felt directly by transport users: the costs of petrol or a rail ticket, or the benefit of getting...

    Last updated: September 24, 2025

    • CSV
    • XLS
    • external-cost
    • transport

  • Traffic volume 2040 for passenger traffic and freight traffic

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Government and public sector, Environment, Transport

    Traffic volume for passenger traffic (public transport and road) and for freight traffic (by rail and by road) as shape files for the year 2040. The following documents are...

    Last updated: December 7, 2018

    • ZIP
    • freight
    • freight-traffic
    • goods
    • goods-traffic
    • passenger-traffic
    • pt
    • public-transport
    • rail
    • road
    • traffic-volume
    • transport-model
    • vm-uvek

  • Travel times and distances between zones for passenger traffic 2040

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Government and public sector, Environment, Transport

    Travel times and distances between zones for passenger traffic (public transport and personal transport) 2040 as text files. Source: [Transport Outlook 2040]

    Last updated: August 5, 2019

    • ZIP
    • mobility
    • public-transport
    • transport
    • transport-model
    • vm-uvek

  • Traffic volume 2030 for passenger traffic and freight traffic

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Government and public sector, Environment, Transport

    Traffic volume for passenger traffic (public transport and road) and for freight traffic (by rail and by road) as shape files for the year 2030. The average traffic on week days is...

    Last updated: December 7, 2018

    • ZIP
    • freight
    • freight-traffic
    • goods
    • goods-traffic
    • passenger-traffic
    • pt
    • public-transport
    • rail
    • road
    • traffic-volume
    • transport-model
    • vm-uvek

  • Traffic volume 2020 for passenger traffic and freight traffic

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Government and public sector, Environment, Transport

    Traffic volume for passenger traffic (public transport and road) and for freight traffic (by rail and by road) as shape files for the year 2020. The average traffic on week days is...

    Last updated: December 7, 2018

    • ZIP
    • freight
    • freight-traffic
    • goods
    • goods-traffic
    • passenger-traffic
    • pt
    • public-transport
    • rail
    • road
    • traffic-volume
    • transport-model
    • vm-uvek

  • Traffic volume 2015 for passenger traffic and freight traffic

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Government and public sector, Environment, Transport

    Traffic volume for passenger traffic (public transport and road) and for freight traffic (by rail and by road) as shape files for the year 2015. The average daily traffic is...

    Last updated: December 7, 2018

    • ZIP
    • freight
    • freight-traffic
    • goods
    • goods-traffic
    • passenger-traffic
    • pt
    • public-transport
    • rail
    • road
    • traffic-volume
    • transport-model
    • vm-uvek

  • Traffic volume 2012 for passenger traffic and freight traffic

    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE
    Government and public sector, Environment, Transport

    Traffic volume for passenger traffic (public transport and road) and for freight traffic (by rail and by road) as shape files for the year 2012. The average daily traffic is...

    Last updated: December 7, 2018

    • ZIP
    • freight
    • freight-traffic
    • goods
    • goods-traffic
    • passenger-traffic
    • pt
    • public-transport
    • rail
    • road
    • traffic-volume
    • transport-model
    • vm-uvek

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