PMlogo2
item4a item4a1
item4a History.. item4a item4a2b
item4a2b History.. item4a2b item4a1 Contact.. item4a1
item4a1
item4a2b
item4a2b History.. item4a2b item4a1 Contact.. item4a1
item4a
item4a2b item4a1

 

 

site map

 

 

New schematic maps of the

 

 

 

Network outline
Network outline
World train / rail map World train / rail map World train / rail map World train / rail map
World train / rail map
World train / rail map
Very little of the world's land can now be thought of as inaccessible, according to a new map of connectedness created by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the World Bank.
The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. The model combines information on terrain and access to road, rail and river networks (see the maps). It also considers how factors such as altitude, steepness of terrain and hold-ups like border crossings slow travel.
Plotted onto a map, the results throw up surprises. First, less than 10 per cent of the world's land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city. What's more, many areas considered remote and inaccessible are not as far from civilisation as you might think. In the Amazon, for example, extensive river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20 per cent of the land is more than two days from a city - around the same proportion as Canada's Quebec province.
The maps were created to show how the distribution of people affects their access to resources such as education and medical care, and how we are increasingly pushing wildlife out of even the wildest corners of our planet.
Network outline
Belt & Road Jug Cerovic Belt & Road Jug Cerovic
Belt & Road Jug Cerovic
Network outline
Iron Silk Road train / rail map Iron Silk Road train / rail map
Iron Silk Road train / rail map
item4a1 item4a item4a item4a2b item4a2b item4a2b item4a1 item4a1 item4a1 item4a1b item4a2a1 item4a2a1 item4a2a1 item4a2a1 item4a1b item4a1b item4a1b