accessibility_2000 function

Accessibility to Cities in 2000

This resource provides global maps of travel time to cities of 50,000 or more people in year 2000. Accessibility refers to the ease with which larger cities can be reached from a certain location. This dataset represents travel time to major cities globally as of the year 2000, encoded in minutes. The data is essential for historical analyses, such as understanding the impact of accessibility on land use and socio-economic outcomes during this period.

Source

https://forobs.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gam

get_accessibility_2000()

Returns

A function that returns an sf footprint object.

References

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Global Accessibility Maps (GAM), 2000.