The GRANULAR project delivers "Availability Indicators"

As part of the transnational project GRANULAR, the aim of which is to generate new datasets, tools and methods for a better understanding of rural areas, and of which the Department of Information Technologies PEF CZU in Prague is also a member, the first outputs have been published.

The project, which focuses on various aspects of rural development, has produced so-called service availability indicators, applicable throughout the European Union. This data archive makes available EU-scale accessibility indicators from a populated EU 1 km grid to EU-scale cities (512 million car travel times calculated between origin and destination). The newly added layer of EU cities and towns is based on a common methodology for the whole of Europe and has also been named by the European Commission. The platform uses only open source and free routing tools (OSRM), based on the OpenStreetMap (OSM) network. This routing tool allows you to create travel time indicators for a large set of departure and destination locations. As part of the activities of the GRANULAR project, this layer of cities and municipalities is considered a proxy for the discussion of small and medium-sized commercial centers in Europe.

All information incl. methodologies are available on the GRANULAR project website https://platform.ruralgranular.eu/indicator-details/27.