Road length per country

Single country

scripts.length.single_country(country, continent_osm, base_path, overwrite=True, savefig=False, report=False)

Function to estimate the road length for each road segment in a country.

Args:

country : The country for which we calculate the RAI.

continent_osm : The continent the country ‘belongs’ to. This is required for the osm extraction.

base_path : Base path to location of all files.

Returns:

The distance per road type (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Track, Other) for the specified country as pandas Series.

All countries

scripts.length.all_countries(base_path, multiprocess=True, overwrite=True, savefig=False, report=False)

Main function to estimate the length of all the roads and countries we are interested in.

Args:

base_path : Base path to the location of all files and directories in this project.

multiprocess : Set to True by default. Set to False in the case of limited processing power.

overwrite : Set to True by default. This relates to all input data (i.e. .poly files, .osm.pbf files and shapefiles).

savefig : Set to False by default. When set to True, it will return a figure with the roads of a country.

Returns:

An Excel file with the length of all Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Track and Other roads for each country.