EU_NUTS1 {Compind}

EU NUTS1 Transportation data

Description

Eurostat regional transport statistics (reg_tran) data, year 2012.

Usage

data(EU_NUTS1)

Format

EU_NUTS1 is a dataset with 34 observations and two indicators describing transportation infrastructure endowment of the main (in terms of population and GDP) European NUTS1 regions: France, Germany, Italy, Spain (United Kingdom has been omitted, due to lack of data concerning railways).

roads

Calculated as (2 * Motorways - Kilometres per 1000 km2 + Other roads - Kilometres per 1000 km2 )/3

trains

Calculated as (2 *Railway lines double+Electrified railway lines)/3

Author(s)

Vidoli F.

References

Vidoli F., Mazziotta C., "Robust weighted composite indicators by means of frontier methods with an application to European infrastructure endowment", Statistica Applicata, Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, 2013.

Examples

data(EU_NUTS1)