DRC Motorised Travel Time to Health Centers at 100m Resolution

A 100-meter spatial resolution raster dataset of motorised travel time in seconds to the nearest health facility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was generated using the Child Poverty and Access to Services (CPAS) software as part of the Data for Children Collaborative. The travel time calculation assumes driving speeds on all-weather roads and walking speeds on other paths and land cover types.

Use Cases

• Modeling healthcare accessibility based on motorised and walking travel times.
• Identifying underserved regions for health facility placement based on travel time surfaces.
• Analyzing spatial inequality in health service access across the DRC based on the 100m resolution map.

Strengths

• 100-meter spatial resolution provides detailed geographic granularity.
• Travel times incorporate realistic motorised and walking speed assumptions for different road types.
• Projection system (GCS_WGS_1984 EPSG 4326) is explicitly documented.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic or methodological bias inherent to the source platform and model.

Provenance

Source

Data for Children Collaborative

Collection Method

Generated using the Child Poverty and Access to Services (CPAS) software.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-09 17:22:04.266769; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Democratic Republic of the Congo