Worldwide cover of subway stations built up to December 2010, ridership and shortest linear path maps of subway lines between stations. Also included are the data and replication files used in `Subways and urban growth: Evidence from Earth', Gonalez-Navarro and Turner, Journal of Urban Economics 2018. The paper is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009411901830072X
Replication files and instructions for Reed, Tristan; Trubetskoy, Alexandr. 2019. Assessing the Value of Market Access from Belt and Road Projects (English). Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 8815.
The Global Roads Inventory Project is a harmonized global dataset of aproximately 60 geospatial datasets on road infrastructure. The resulting dataset covers 222 countries and includes over 21 million km of roads, which is two to three times the total length in the currently best available country-based global roads datasets.
The road density raster layers (road length per unit of area) are produced at a resolution of 5 arcminutes (approximately 8×8km at the equator). The road vector dataset was overlaid with a global 5 arcminute 'fishnet' vector dataset with unique cell identifiers...
The Global Roads Inventory Project is a harmonized global dataset of aproximately 60 geospatial datasets on road infrastructure. The resulting dataset covers 222 countries and includes over 21 million km of roads, which is two to three times the total length in the currently best available country-based global roads datasets.
This dataset is split into 5 road types: highways/ primary/ secondary/ tertiary/ local roads
For more information, please visit:
http://www.globio.info/download-grip-dataset
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This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information System analysis is used to estimate shipment times before and after the Belt and Road Initiative. Two sets of data are computed to address different research questions: a global database based on an analysis of 1,000 cities in 191 countries and 47 sectors and a regional database that focuses on more granular information (1,818 cities) for Belt and Road...
Replication Data for Adam Storeygard; Farther on down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 83, Issue 3, 1 July 2016, Pages 1263–1295, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdw020.
Abstract: How does isolation affect the economic activity of cities? Transport costs are widely considered an important barrier to local economic activity but their impact in developing countries is not well-studied. This paper investigates the role of inter-city transport costs in...
Shapefile of national roads (Class A and Class B), digitized from Sri Lanka's National Road Master Plan. The road shapefile is topologically correct, i.e. ready to be used for a road network.
Class A Roads: Inter-provincial trunk roads connecting major cities and ports
Class B Roads: Intra-provincial arterial roads connecting major urban areas
Sri Lanka's National Road Master Plan can be found online here: http://www.rda.gov.lk/supported/noticeboard/publications/nrmp_executiveS...
Exploiting the theory of a classic gravity model, the Market Accessibility index is a measure of potential economic connectivity between village/towns and big cities. These population centers are considered a proxy of market size or population potential. This metric discounts the market size proxy by an estimate
of travel time along a transportation network, which assigns little relevance of a market size in a very far place from the origin or, conversely, assigns a strong relevance for markets in close proximity to the origin. Using the transportation network and estimated travel...
This shapefile contains roads in Madagascar and its surface type and conditions.
Airports in Nigeria with airport name, but no additional attributes
Major roads in Niger are provided along with basic descriptions of type and length
This shapefile contains roads in Chad and its surface type and conditions.
Location and description of ports in Nigeria
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Tecsult for AICD study (2009), with input from the Ministère de l’Équipement et du Désenclavement, Entretient des Routes (MEDER), Ministère du Transport (MT) and Aviation Civile (AC)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Africon for AICD study (2009) with input from the Roads Authority (RA)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Africon for AICD study (2009)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Tecsult for AICD study (2009), with input from AGEROUTE
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Tecsult for AICD study (2009), with input from L’Institut Géographique National - France (IGN)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Tecsult for AICD study (2009), with input from the Office national des routes (ONR)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled for AICD study (2009)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Africon for AICD study (2009)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Tecsult for AICD study (2009), with input from the Service de Banque de Données Routières (SBDR)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Tecsult for AICD study (2009), with input from theOffice des Routes of Burundi
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Tecsult for AICD study (2009), with input from the Direction Générale des Routes (DGR)
Data on road type, condition and traffic volume compiled by Tecsult for AICD study (2009), with input from the Cellule De Programmation (CDP) of the Ministry of Public Works
