A dataset from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties) details routes designated for dangerous goods transport. It includes tunnels with safety restrictions for dangerous substances and mandatory routes for heavy freight traffic in central areas. The dataset is available in JSON format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Route planning for hazardous material transport based on designated municipal routes.
- Risk assessment for tunnel safety based on restrictions for dangerous substances.
- Traffic flow analysis for heavy freight based on mandatory routes in central areas.
- Infrastructure planning based on the network of preferred freight transport corridors.
Strengths
- Data is provided by a national ministry, suggesting an authoritative source.
- Explicitly covers multiple route types: designated dangerous goods routes, tunnels with restrictions, and mandatory heavy freight routes.
- Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
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.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaan en Koninkrijksrelaties
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Municipalities within the Netherlands (implied by the source organization).