Site effects: assessing the fiscal, social and ecological costs of planned developments

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Table 1. Impact analysis tools and their scope

Tools	Broad spatial scope	Broad scope of assessment areas and land uses	Low installation effort and high user friendliness	Low effort of data entry	High precision of results	Low prior knowledge
Online tools			✓✓	✓✓		✓✓
Excel-based tools			✓	✓	✓	✓
Software tools	✓✓	✓			✓✓

Note: ✓✓ = applicable; ✓ = partly applicable; = not applicable.

Source: Authors’ own illustration.

Figure 1. Overview of the assessment areas of RegioProjektCheck.

Source: authors’ own illustration; RegioProjektCheck.

Table 2. Comparison of RegioProjektCheck with other impact analysis tools

Tools	Broad spatial scope	Broad scope of assessment areas and land uses	Low installation effort and high user friendliness	Low effort of data entry	High precision of results	Low prior knowledge
RegioProjektCheck	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Online tools			✓✓	✓✓		✓✓
Excel-based tools			✓	✓	✓	✓
Software tools	✓✓	✓			✓✓

Note: ✓✓ = applicable; ✓ = partly applicable; = not applicable.

Source: Authors’ own illustration.