Travel time to the nearest city

land management

Global map of travel time disparities

Details

This dataset offers information on the travel-time requirements. Each pixel reports on the amount of time required to travel from it to the nearest city with at least 50,000 inhabitants.

Subdatasets

hoursTo50000ha | Number of hours to nearest city with at least 50,000 inhabitants.
content description
value_range 0…n

masDMT query

# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("travelTime")

# data call for specific subdataset 
list_data("travelTime/hoursTo50000ha")

# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("travelTime/hoursTo50000ha/1km")

References

(bibtex)

[1] Weiss, Nelson, Gibson, Temperley, Peedell, Lieber, Hancher, Poyart, Belchior, Fullman, Mappin, Dalrymple, Rozier, Lucas, Howes, Tusting, Kang, Cameron, Bisanzio, Battle, Bhatt, and Gething (2018)