New Historical Data
Open access
Date
2015-01Type
- Conference Paper
ETH Bibliography
yes
Altmetrics
Abstract
In this paper, a new data set of a historical road network is presented. It represents the situation of 1950 and covers the whole globe. Its generation is documented in detail, its features are reported and, using it as a geographical information system in order to generate historical travel times in the example of Nigeria, its usefulness in (historical) transport studies is demonstrated. The main sources of this data set are maps of the former US Army Map Service and a range of historical statistics. To the knowledge of the authors, such historical transport data has not been available so far, which enables to examine various historical and current transport related research questions using spatial and time-variant data. Show more
Permanent link
https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000097821Publication status
publishedBook title
TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of PapersPages / Article No.
Publisher
Transportation Research BoardEvent
Subject
World; Road network; Nigeria; 1950; Travel time; Historical transport dataOrganisational unit
03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus)
02226 - NSL - Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft / NSL - Network City and Landscape
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
Related publications and datasets
Is variant form of: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/88371
More
Show all metadata
ETH Bibliography
yes
Altmetrics