What is GOAT?

Geo Open Accessibility Tool, or simply GOAT, is an open-source web tool, that is interactive, flexible, and practical for accessibility planning. Currently, GOAT is capable of modeling walking and cycling accessibility and is designed to serve as a suitable instrument for easier, better, and more open transport and urban planning.

What are the main features?

The main focus of GOAT is to offer dynamic accessibility analysis at street-, neighborhood-, and district-level. GOAT enables you to calculate different accessibility indicators, such as isochrones and gravity-based heatmaps. What is special about GOAT is that you can develop your own case scenarios.

Learn more

GOAT-live

Here you can find our demo versions of GOAT. They are frequently enhanced with new features and up-to-date data.

Videos

Videos for a quick start. Here the functions of GOAT are demonstrated exemplarily.

Tutorials

Explanation of the individual functions of GOAT and step-by-step guides for answering typical planning questions.

Docs

Detailed information on the technical background and guidance for participation in our open source projects.