The concept of transport accessibility is one of the important components of spatial planning. With the advancement of hardware and software, accessibility calculations based on a road network are increasingly being used. Transport accessibility studies in Slovenia have relied on public infrastructure data, which is only partially suitable for conducting such analyses since they do not contain information on maximum speed limits and thus result in a time-consuming and complex process that is required to create a network. Therefore, in recent years, data from the Openstreetmap database has also been used for such analyses. The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine the suitability of the Openstreetmap database for analyses pertaining to private car accessibility. By comparing the Openstreetmap road network and the road network from the Surveying and Mapping Authoritiy of the Republic of Slovenia, which contained combined road axis data from the cadaster of public infrastructure and the national topographic model, we found that the Openstreetmap data for Slovenia includes more than 99% of the national road network lengths and more than 90% of the categorized municipal roads. Openstreetmap’s data can also be used to carry out reliable analyses of accessibility by private car. Travel times obtained with the OpenRouteService tool, which uses Openstreetmap data, deviate by less than 10% compared to the travel times of the commercial tools Here WeGo and Google Maps.
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