 General Notes
The IRPUD European Transport Network database contains information on
of 38 European
countries (all countries of the European Union as well as Switzerland, Norway, Iceland,
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Albania, Rumania, Bulgaria, the European part of Turkey,
former Yugoslavia and the countries of the European part of the former USSR).
In addition the database contains the boundaries of statistical regions
according to the 'Nomenclature d'unités territoriales statistiques' (NUTS)
of the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat). In the NUTS system of regions
the area of the European Union is subdivided corresponding to national administrative
areas into NUTS-0, NUTS-1, NUTS-2 and NUTS 3 regions.
A third part of the database contains the locations of cities
in Europe with a population of more than 50,000.
Digitisation was performed at scales of 1:1.000.000, 1:500.000 and 1:200.000.
The networks were coded using a Lambert Conformal Conic Projection with
the two standard parallels at 27° and 63° North, the central meridian at 10° East
and the map origin at 10° East and 52° North. Coordinates are available as Lambert or
geographical (latitude and longitude) coordinates. The database is stored in coverages of the geographical information system ArcInfo.
NUTS-2 regions in Europe © 2001 IRPUD  Road |
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