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An updated working paper presents a methodology that takes into account the spatial distribution of both population and green areas throughout the cities’ territory, and produces indicators on the proximity of the green areas to the urban population. To obtain...Read articlePassenger rail accessibility in Europe’s border areas
Cross-border cooperation in the EU addresses the needs of border areas and has been helping to remove obstacles between them for more than 25 years already. To support this policy, quantitative evidence needs to be developed, especially in the areas of transport...Read articlePopulation figures added to Copernicus Urban Atlas data
A recent JRC Technical Report describes a method to downscale residential population data to the level of Copernicus Urban Atlas polygons. Urban Atlas 2012 is a powerful geographical dataset that describes land use/land cover at high spatial resolution for nearly 700...Read articleENACT project interim report just published
ENACT (“ENhancing ACTivity and population mapping”) is a JRC Exploratory Research Project involving various units at the JRC, and spanning 2 years (2016-2017). Current knowledge of population distribution is still very limited even for Europe. Existing spatial...Read articleState of European Cities Report 2016 published
In partnership with UN Habitat, the U.N. programme working towards a better urban future, the European Commission released the State of European Cities Report 2016. It supports the Urban Agenda by assessing the performance of European cities with regards to its...Read articleNew Global Human Settlement Layer website and report
The Global Human Settlement Layer project of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has a new website: http://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ It features the “Atlas of the Human Planet”, presenting the key findings of the analysis of the Global Human...Read articleUrban Data Platform online
The new Urban Data Platform, developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in close co-operation with DG Regional and Urban Policy, is now online: http://urban.jrc.ec.europa.eu This tool allows the interactive discovery – via maps and...Read articleFrom rail timetables to regional and urban indicators on rail passenger services
An analysis of rail passenger services in Europe, focusing on regional and urban indicators.
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