From your planning question to an answer you can stand behind
GOAT is the WebGIS with AI: you ask, the AI finds the data, analyzes it and makes the map. You check every step yourself.
GOAT by Plan4Better · Made in Germany
Trusted by municipalities, transport authorities and planning offices
Open-source, cloud-based, with AI
The WebGIS GOAT
One platform for the whole spatial workflow: bring or find your data, run accessibility and GIS analysis, automate the repetitive parts and share the results as dashboards or print-ready maps. Do each step yourself, or let GOAT AI take the first pass.
What would you like to start with? Pick a question.
Ask GOAT AI
Type your planning question. GOAT AI finds the data, builds the workflow and makes the map. You can check and change every step.
GOAT AIWhat would you like to start with? Pick a question.
Bring data together
Upload your own files, connect an external service, search our Catalog of over 30,000 curated datasets, or fetch OSM and Overture data. GOAT AI can also find the data that fits your question.
GOAT AIAccessibility and GIS analysis
Answer the spatial questions that used to need a GIS specialist, like accessibility, demand, coverage and site selection, in your browser.
GOAT AIAutomate
Turn a week of manual analysis into a workflow you re-run in a click. GOAT AI can build the workflow for you.
GOAT AIShare and collaborate
Hand stakeholders a live dashboard or a printed report, whichever they need.
Open-source and GDPR-safe
Know exactly what’s under the hood: open-source foundations, no black box, no lock-in, and your data protected under EU rules.
GOAT in use
What are you planning?
Accessibility analysis, 15-minute-city assessments and service-coverage studies — in the browser, without a GIS department.
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Hamburg is prioritising its barrier-free bus stop retrofits with GOAT
The State Agency of Roads, Bridges and Waterbodies Hamburg (LSBG) combines accessibility, timetable data, and sociodemographics in an automated multi-criteria analysis to determine which stops should be retrofitted first. This ensures that the limited budget is allocated where it will have the greatest impact.
Looped Pilot Project
Model catchment areas, test network changes and show decision-makers the effect before anything is built.
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Munich is planning where to put shared mobility in Harthof
For the Harthof district, the City of Munich needed to know which locations would work for car and bike sharing. Using GOAT, walkability and accessibility were analysed, along with the city's digital twin and sociodemographic data to find the spots residents can reach on foot, then modelled scenarios for placing hubs there.
Score a site on who can actually reach it: transport, amenities, catchment, footfall.
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stattbau analyses how well connected housing sites really are
The Munich consultancy has used GOAT since 2022, looking at what people can reach on foot and by transit, bike and car sharing, and testing scenarios for adding services. The results feed mobility concepts for new neighbourhoods and workplaces, including how much parking is actually needed.
Find and defend locations with real accessibility and demand data instead of gut feel.
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Bonn is putting retail planning inside its own data platform
The City of Bonn is building a GIS-based retail planning workflow in GOAT, with automated accessibility and local supply analyses running on the city's Urban Data Platform. A question about how well a neighbourhood is served gets answered from data the city already holds.
Map exposure, identify underserved areas and evidence your climate and mobility targets.
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A national dashboard for tracking how cities are adapting to heat
BBSR is developing Germany's urban climate monitoring system on GOAT, with IÖR, LUP and bauchplan. It tracks nationally comparable indicators, from how many people can reach a green space that actually cools them to how much ground is still permeable. These feed federal monitoring from 2027, to judge whether adaptation is working.
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What they say about GOAT
Testimonials
Please read the testimonials from our satisfied customers, including public authorities, planning offices, consultants, academics and other experts from a range of fields.
“I am enthusiastic about this software solution enabling complex analyses docked to our city-wide systems. What previously ran laboriously and in isolation will now be standardized, cross-departmental and without media breaks. The Urban Data Platform thus becomes the true heart of our urban development – efficient, transparent and forward-looking.”
Janina EderSpatial PlannerCity of Bonn“With Plan4Better, we have fundamentally modernised VerkehrsInfo BW. The new platform brings together a wide range of mobility data and makes it available clearly and reliably. Its open, scalable architecture also creates a strong basis for continuous further development.”
Marlene PichaInnovation ManagerNVBW - Nahverkehrsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH“An excellent tool for data-driven, modern urban and mobility planning for ambitious 15-minute cities.”
Dr. Michael BauderCity of Freiburg“GOAT enables us to analyse the accessibility of construction projects in a targeted and efficient manner. The results of the analyses form a clear basis for the development of tailored mobility concepts in residential and commercial construction.”
Julia KorstenProject ManagerStattbau München GmbH“GOAT brings great added value to answering complex planning problems in the mobility sector through intuitive and fast analyses with visually appealing and easy-to-understand results.”
Shravan ShindeConception & ConsultingMünchner Verkehrs- & Tarifverbund GmbH“With Plan4Better, we were able to answer our specific questions regarding a nationwide mobility guarantee. We also very successfully realised the internationalisation of the public transport atlas together.”
Philipp KosokPublic Transport Project ManagerAgora Verkehrswende“With the implementation of GOAT as part of the Rhine-Neckar Smart Region project, we are aiming for a transformative change in our transport infrastructure. The tool enables stronger connection and collaboration between different stakeholders in our region, contributing to an integrated and sustainable transport system.”
Marius JörresProject Manager for Smart MobilityMetropolregion Rhein-Neckar GmbH“A trend-setting support for the implementation of the 15-minute city!”
Jonas BellingrodtUrban PlannerCity of Freising“In Fürstenfeldbruck, GOAT is used in urban and transport planning and is a great help for accessibility analyses on walking and cycling.”
Dr. Montserrat MiramontesMobility ManagerCity of Fürstenfeldbruck“We see GOAT as an innovative and cost-effective analysis tool for finding good arguments in favour of future-oriented, modern mobility. Thanks to the excellent support provided by the Plan4Better team, we were able to obtain a quick and comprehensive overview of the transport accessibility of all important points of interest in our Amberg city centre. Be it on foot, by bike or by car.”
Ulrich SchallerHead of the Mobility and Transport DepartmentCity of Amberg“GOAT has decisive advantages for environmentally sound urban, local and spatial planning because it includes the user perspective from the outset and does not represent the expert view first. This is new!”
Dr. Johannes GnädingerProf. Schaller UmweltConsult GmbH“GOAT is a very good tool for calculating and visualising accessibility in transport and urban planning.”
Attila LüttmerdingHead of Mobility Data UnitDepartment of Mobility, City of Munich
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3 ways of working with us
We build GOAT, and we use it for our own planning projects. So you can take the tool and run with it, or leave the work with us.
Use GOAT yourself
Subscribe, run, and automate your own geospatial analyses, and share maps & dashboards.
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We analyse it for you
Tell us the question, we run the analysis in GOAT and hand you a finished study.
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We build it for you
Need something tailored? We build custom tools and dashboards on top of GOAT.
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Check out our resources
Between projects and GOAT releases, we write about what we find.
Articles on our Blog
Analysis examples, method write-ups, map design, and the problems we ran into building them.
- GOAT 3.1 “Alpine”: an AI assistant that builds your analyses
GOAT 3.1 brings GOAT AI, an EU-hosted assistant that finds data and builds workflows, plus a PT Network Explorer, street-network ÖV-Güteklassen and dashboard layer switchers.
- Five months to the new VerkehrsInfo BW, and the years of work that made it possible
VerkehrsInfo BW, the new web platform of the Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg, built in five months with GOAT on open data from MobiData BW.
- 30,000 datasets, one click: how the GOAT AI-powered Catalog is built
Every planning project starts with a search for data. This is how we built a catalog of more than 30,000 datasets that land in your GOAT project with one click, and why AI search does not replace it.
Whitepapers
Longer pieces: how public transport quality is measured, and how a 15-minute city is actually calculated.
Read the whitepapersReady to make sense of your data?
Ask GOAT your first planning question, or build the analysis yourself. No GIS expertise needed.