Driven distance by commuters to the center of major and minor cities in Europe

The two files contains respectively a map of driving distances around major and minor cities in Europe. The distance is given by range of 5 km from 5 to 45 km in a resolution of 100m*100m. The encoding is uint8.

The metropolitan areas considered in this study are those from this study of functional urban area definition.

The corresponding geofile is available at this adress.

Most of the cities with more than 50'000 habitants are included, some cities have been removed or added depending on the local context.

As the geofile contains only polygones of the metropolitan areas and not the city point, the points form cities with the number of habitants have been dowloaded from Natural Data and then selected by comparison with the polygones.

Cities with more than 20'000 have also been selected as commuting center for rural areas. Only the cities outside the metropolitan commuting zones are included.

The calculation of driving distances around centers have been performed with OpenRouteService (personal API key required, free of charge).