Air Quality on Cycling Routes in South Holland for 2019

South Holland province calculated air quality levels along its managed cycling paths and fast cycle routes. The data is based on air quality and traffic intensity measurements from 2019, specifically excluding effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. It was published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark license.

Use Cases

• Mapping pollution exposure for cyclists based on the calculated air quality along routes.
• Assessing the impact of traffic intensity on air quality near cycling infrastructure.
• Comparing air quality conditions on different types of cycle paths (e.g., standard vs. fast routes).
• Establishing a 2019 baseline for air quality studies, unaffected by pandemic-related traffic changes.

Strengths

• Data is focused on a specific, pre-pandemic year (2019), providing a clear temporal baseline.
• Covers a defined geographic area: cycling infrastructure managed by the province of South Holland.
• Published under a permissive public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Calculated based on air quality and traffic intensity measurements.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Cycling paths and routes managed by the province of South Holland, Netherlands.