Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Major Cities (Senegal - ~ 500 m)

Accessibility to major cities dataset is modeled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the largest cities (>100k habitants) in the country. Dakar - 2 646 503, Touba 753 315, Thiès 317 763, Kaolack 233 708, Mbour 232 777, Rufisque 221 066, Saint-Louis 209 752, Ziguinchor 205 294, Diourbel 133 705, Louga 104 349.

This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO' s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location).

Data publication: 2022-07-04

Contact points:

Metadata Contact: FAO-Data

Resource Contact: Dariia Nesterenko

Data lineage:

Produced using

  1. OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, and rivers. https://www.openstreetmap.org/
  2. UN Map country border. https://www.un.org/geospatial/
  3. The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM. https://www.hydrosheds.org/
  4. GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer. https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/download.php

Resource constraints:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)

Online resources:

Zipped TIF raster file for Accessibility: Travel Time-Cost to Major Cities (Senegal - ~ 500 m)

Data and Resources

Additional Info

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Source https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/4a843edf-1da8-42d4-affa-1e0018979133
Last Updated August 8, 2022, 09:22 (CDT)
Created August 8, 2022, 09:22 (CDT)
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