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! Country !! Centroid city !! size !! spreadsheet
 
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| Albania || Tirana || || link
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| Albania || Tirana || 158 || link
 
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| Algeria || Algers ||  || link
 
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| Austria || Vienna ||   || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1joXvrjWDmabsyFqf4V6bBsmCJHp0fhCB5oAy8nOStRU/ link]
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| Austria || Vienna || 385 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1joXvrjWDmabsyFqf4V6bBsmCJHp0fhCB5oAy8nOStRU/ link]
 
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| Belgium || Brussels || 165 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_DRQi9VUrV2o5oVRL01DUBz9iT3ZvVPlvxvz9O_ZLg link]
 
| Belgium || Brussels || 165 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_DRQi9VUrV2o5oVRL01DUBz9iT3ZvVPlvxvz9O_ZLg link]
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| Czech Republic || Prague || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QlsggBo0dOK-gvXR3-wOeeIQOLDSQ6J9TAGijCZ0ENg/ link]
 
| Czech Republic || Prague || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QlsggBo0dOK-gvXR3-wOeeIQOLDSQ6J9TAGijCZ0ENg/ link]
 
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| Denmark || Copenhagen || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uB0MooOA0xT8z9bRfZ1iaKxNph1FQgeUby0HmXSOrKw link]
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| Denmark || Copenhagen || 271 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uB0MooOA0xT8z9bRfZ1iaKxNph1FQgeUby0HmXSOrKw link]
 
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| Estonia || Tallinn || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nhs-FE32-n0taDLiNHxZ71VBGC2mYrBHjLlwI_PNMsQ/ link]
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| Estonia || Tallinn || 182 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nhs-FE32-n0taDLiNHxZ71VBGC2mYrBHjLlwI_PNMsQ/ link]
 
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| Finland || Helsinki ||   || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OXHdXZDUJ9So5oSP67ZWzkDdSaQADQdZbDMnp7ekXcU/ link]
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| Finland || Helsinki || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OXHdXZDUJ9So5oSP67ZWzkDdSaQADQdZbDMnp7ekXcU/ link]
 
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| France || Paris || 1051 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-G7VVZDE7xH6yzhsVYpmTTnu3rtgvadMC7WX9yIJqPc link]
 
| France || Paris || 1051 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-G7VVZDE7xH6yzhsVYpmTTnu3rtgvadMC7WX9yIJqPc link]
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| Hungary || Budapest ||  || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16VZjIhacrZqKWNp95POnc2qKuLgpfTcIgs8Ygt6nxPI link]
 
| Hungary || Budapest ||  || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16VZjIhacrZqKWNp95POnc2qKuLgpfTcIgs8Ygt6nxPI link]
 
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| Iceland || Reykjavik || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1skWHDUfRtpaUkjXy-WiCWhqGBI8st-FB9sjcMaIRiCc link]
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| Iceland || Reykjavik || 132 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1skWHDUfRtpaUkjXy-WiCWhqGBI8st-FB9sjcMaIRiCc link]
 
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| Ireland || Dublin || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15KY_dUl_3PB_taWZNkfdhcv9RhX7YgcyUC21aNADOdE link]
 
| Ireland || Dublin || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15KY_dUl_3PB_taWZNkfdhcv9RhX7YgcyUC21aNADOdE link]
 
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| Italy || Rome || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19GxxwjgUrsMB522Vv_3zUCg-bJVyg054WwMK5S3tkP0 link]
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| Italy || Rome || 1226 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19GxxwjgUrsMB522Vv_3zUCg-bJVyg054WwMK5S3tkP0 link]
 
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| Latvia || Riga || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ls57Onx80PpDggjztZgjOMDc0ikybXH2Rv7hsIIIav8/ link]
 
| Latvia || Riga || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ls57Onx80PpDggjztZgjOMDc0ikybXH2Rv7hsIIIav8/ link]
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| Montenegro || Bijelo Polje || || link   
 
| Montenegro || Bijelo Polje || || link   
 
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| Morocco || Temara || 417 || link
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| Morocco || Temara || 419 || link
 
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| Netherlands || Utrecht || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x8Vfb2ZIjsTmb0lRrO-8YHC6NKmgc58HtP_cNSjeOQY link]
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| Netherlands || Utrecht || 137 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x8Vfb2ZIjsTmb0lRrO-8YHC6NKmgc58HtP_cNSjeOQY link]
 
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| Norway || Skien || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e3vPPWMyJu6k5rdbqDC9EGgOCgmAmsGZ2JO1oMrCbXw/edit link]
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| Norway || Skien || 455 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e3vPPWMyJu6k5rdbqDC9EGgOCgmAmsGZ2JO1oMrCbXw/edit link]
 
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| Poland || Łódź || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wBNuc3qItIouZHKLI-c9TrJcL2skF-T6sw_Yh1gPxM4 link]
 
| Poland || Łódź || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wBNuc3qItIouZHKLI-c9TrJcL2skF-T6sw_Yh1gPxM4 link]
 
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| Portugal || Lisboa || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DBTu9pNtdLhf0hBPGqnYbLYXnxhAkX0f7eDcRBIrZGU link]
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| Portugal || Lisboa || 228 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DBTu9pNtdLhf0hBPGqnYbLYXnxhAkX0f7eDcRBIrZGU link]
 
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| Romania || Bucharest || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V-39ygo6LszL2PWHUVi8VFtci1CExjpQLN7Y2w-nUXQ link]
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| Romania || Bucharest || 568 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V-39ygo6LszL2PWHUVi8VFtci1CExjpQLN7Y2w-nUXQ link]
 
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| Slovakia || Banská Bystrica || 303 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lTXNbUIM5ATG1C0TpzsgmtGnHFBqt0m2PBtRvVul0XE/ link]
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| Slovakia || Banská Bystrica || 254 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lTXNbUIM5ATG1C0TpzsgmtGnHFBqt0m2PBtRvVul0XE/ link]
 
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| Slovenia || Ljubljana || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CVV7NGr2XZ-iYhE4c48Vm7WBhXPOxa79XrdV5GVck5E/ link]
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| Slovenia || Ljubljana || 119 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CVV7NGr2XZ-iYhE4c48Vm7WBhXPOxa79XrdV5GVck5E/ link]
 
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| Spain || Madrid || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zf0ks3MiWOHbh9CSNiZQwW3yy9jW3l7qFahGYBH-uc8 link]
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| Spain || Madrid || 653 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zf0ks3MiWOHbh9CSNiZQwW3yy9jW3l7qFahGYBH-uc8 link]
 
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| Sweden || Nörrköping || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16kjE6_IIoqiOHdFB-x1rpJiEesRbNqhwXSv8HTyy_NQ link]
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| Sweden || Nörrköping || 393 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16kjE6_IIoqiOHdFB-x1rpJiEesRbNqhwXSv8HTyy_NQ link]
 
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| Switzerland || Olten ||   || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VJ08fAdkbvnKAFDnn1RnNXQxWn9nzTK1y5GJ5AJFa1Y link]
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| Switzerland || Olten || 158 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VJ08fAdkbvnKAFDnn1RnNXQxWn9nzTK1y5GJ5AJFa1Y link]
 
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| Tunisia || Tunis ||  || link
 
| Tunisia || Tunis ||  || link
 
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| United Kingdom || Coventry || || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xbNe-QDLIZt6h1HvLAa4jzTQoyifdLaiTr4UgaqbHNk link]
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| United Kingdom || Coventry || 347 || [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xbNe-QDLIZt6h1HvLAa4jzTQoyifdLaiTr4UgaqbHNk link]
 
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| European Union || Munich || 0.3 || link
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Revision as of 15:52, 3 March 2021

This page explores how the size of the country can be taken into account in the determination of the eco-score transport bonus.

Bonus approach

The eco-score approach intends to give a bonus to locally produced (and purchased) products. This bonus is +15, which is equal to a transport score of 100. This bonus is however now given to any product produced/purchased in France. No account has been taken of the very large size of France and impact of transport within the country.

Can this approach be adapted, so that the size of a country is taken into account?

Maximum bonus

It would be logic to give the maximum bonus (transport score if 100) only to very locally production and purchase. Ideally this will imply an area as small as possible, i.e. a city or very small country. Production and purchase that occurs in a country such as Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein or San Marino could be viewed as having a transportation score of 100.

No bonus

In the current calculation the no bonus (transportation score 0) is (arbitrarily) set at a distance of 2000 km. This distance covers roughly the size of Europe.

Centroids to the rescue

Is it possible to use the centroid calculations in determining the (transportation) size of a country?

The weighted sum for a country that consists of single city will be zero. This can then correspond to a transportation (bonus) score of 100. This means it is preferred to have no transportation.

The weighted sum of the major cities in the European Union (or larger area) could be used to define the transportation score of 0. This means a maximum transportation impact.

From Any weighted sum in between it is now possible to calculate a country transportation score. The larger the country, the lower the country transportation score. This country transportation score can be used to determine the maximum bonus for a country.

The centroid approach can also be used to calculate the country transportation size. We just have to add all cities, so that the entire population is covered. The resulting weighted distance is the size we are looking for.

In practice this approach is not feasible. It is just to much work to (to do by hand a least). So we need a way to get a reasonable approximation. For the calculation of the centroids a limited number of cities are used. We could try to extrapolate this data to get the transportation country size.

Approach

In the figure the results for Maroc are shown.

The population road-distance weighted transportation size of Maroc

The cumulative population weighted distances are plotted against the cumulative population ratios. Each added city adds a point, increasing the cumulative population ratio and the cumulative distance. If the cumulative population ratio is 1, we have covered the entire population. And the corresponding cumulative distance is the value we are looking for.

Instead of adding all the cities, we could fit a line to the data of a few city points. The cumulative distance of the fit at a population ratio of 1, is then again the value we are looking for.

The function to fit must behave nicely with extrapolations. This excludes complex functions with many parameters. A simple linear of logarithmic function should be sufficient. A logarithmic function is preferred, as you expect that as smaller cities are added, the contribution to the distance is also smaller (not sure this logic is correct).

In the graph for Maroc a logarithmic function is used. The largest cities are not used in the fit calculation, as these ones seem not to follow the curve. They would bias the fit to much, when we use so few points. The fit will result in a transportation size of 419 km. Compare this to a maximum actual distance of about 1000 km.

Result

This approach has been applied on the following countries:

Country Centroid city size spreadsheet
Albania Tirana 158 link
Algeria Algers link
Austria Vienna 385 link
Belgium Brussels 165 link
Bosnia and Herzegovina Zenica 283 link
Croatia Zagreb link
Czech Republic Prague link
Denmark Copenhagen 271 link
Estonia Tallinn 182 link
Finland Helsinki link
France Paris 1051 link
Germany Hannover 577 link
Greece Athens link
Hungary Budapest link
Iceland Reykjavik 132 link
Ireland Dublin link
Italy Rome 1226 link
Latvia Riga link
Lithuania Kaunas link
Montenegro Bijelo Polje link
Morocco Temara 419 link
Netherlands Utrecht 137 link
Norway Skien 455 link
Poland Łódź link
Portugal Lisboa 228 link
Romania Bucharest 568 link
Slovakia Banská Bystrica 254 link
Slovenia Ljubljana 119 link
Spain Madrid 653 link
Sweden Nörrköping 393 link
Switzerland Olten 158 link
Tunisia Tunis link
United Kingdom Coventry 347 link
European Union Munich link
Bouches du Rhône Marseille 25 link
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