Malawi Motorized Travel Time to Health Centers at 100m Resolution

A 100-meter spatial resolution raster dataset of motorized travel time in seconds to the nearest health facility in Malawi. The data was generated using the Child Poverty and Access to Services (CPAS) software and created as part of the CPAS project within the Data for Children Collaborative. Travel times are calculated assuming driving speeds on all-weather roads and walking speeds on other paths and land cover types.

Use Cases

• Modeling healthcare accessibility based on motorized travel time.
• Identifying underserved regions for health facility placement based on travel time surfaces.
• Integrating travel time data with population or poverty maps for vulnerability analysis.

Strengths

• High spatial resolution of 100 meters.
• Travel times are calculated using a documented methodology with defined speed assumptions for different road and land cover types.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's size and row count are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

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 17:22:28.228615; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Malawi