by Hugo Poelman | Feb 6, 2020 | News
How many people can you reach by public transport, bicycle or on foot in European cities? A new DG REGIO working paper has just been published: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/maps/low-carbon-urban-accessibility It measures access to public...Read article
by Hugo Poelman | Jan 30, 2020 | News
Obviously, each town has a name. But in a system of grid-based urban/rural classifications, towns are defined as clusters of 1 km² grid cells. These grid-based towns do not have any a-priori name. Still, providing names to these units can be useful to facilitate...Read article
by Hugo Poelman | Sep 30, 2019 | News
A new working paper describes an indicator framework highlighting road transport performance in Europe’s regions and territories. By combining a comprehensive road network with 1 km² gridded population data it compares the accessibility to population within an...Read article
by Hugo Poelman | Jan 17, 2018 | News
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 article
by Hugo Poelman | Jan 17, 2018 | News
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 article
by Hugo Poelman | Jan 19, 2017 | News
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 article
by Hugo Poelman | Jan 17, 2017 | News
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 article
by Hugo Poelman | Oct 21, 2016 | News
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 article
by Hugo Poelman | Oct 21, 2016 | News
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 article
by Hugo Poelman | Oct 21, 2016 | News
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 article
