Urban Public Transport Accessibility in Afghanistan

A dataset from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Data and Analytics Section, last updated on 2026-05-06. It provides an estimated share of the urban population in Afghanistan with access to public transport stops within a walking distance of 500 meters for low-capacity systems or 1000 meters for high-capacity systems along the street network. The data is available in CSV and XLSX formats under a PDDL-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assess urban transport equity based on estimated population access shares.
• Model service coverage gaps for public transport network planning.
• Benchmark infrastructure development against accessibility metrics.
• Support policy recommendations for sustainable urban mobility.

Strengths

• Produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, an authoritative source on urban data.
• Focuses on a specific, policy-relevant metric for transport accessibility.
• Available in common, machine-readable formats (CSV, XLSX).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description is limited; actual data quality and methodology require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Data and Analytics Section

Collection Method

Likely derived from spatial analysis of transport networks and population data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 22:32:42.019688; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Afghanistan (urban areas)