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Mapping walking time on OSM data with r5r

Mapping walking time on OSM data with r5r

Posted on April 15, 2025 By rehan.rafique No Comments on Mapping walking time on OSM data with r5r

img { border: 5px solid #FFFFFF; }

The topic of day 5 in the
#30DayMapChallenge is ‘OpenStreetMap’. So here is a quick reproducible example showing how one can use OpenStreetMap data and the
r5r package to calculate travel times.

options(java.parameters = "-Xmx4G")

library(r5r)
library(geobr)
library(sf)
library(ggplot2)
library(here)
library(osmextract)
library(data.table)
library(magrittr)


# create subdirectories "data" and "img"
dir.create(here::here("data"))
dir.create(here::here("img"))


# get city boundaries
city <- 'Rio de Janeiro'
city_code <- lookup_muni(name_muni = city)
city_boundary <- read_municipality(code_muni = city_code$code_muni, simplified = F)


# define city center
city_center_df <- data.frame(id='center', lon=-43.182811, lat=-22.906906)
city_center_sf <- sfheaders::sfc_point(obj = city_center_df, x='lon', y='lat')
st_crs(city_center_sf) <- 4326

# define buffer area of analysis 3 Km
buff <- st_buffer(city_center_sf, dist = 3000)

# crs
city_boundary <- st_transform(city_boundary, 4326)
city_center_sf <- st_transform(city_center_sf, 4326)
buff_bb <- st_bbox(buff)


# get OSM data
osmextract::oe_download(provider="openstreetmap_fr",
                        file_url = osmextract::oe_match("Rio De Janeiro")[[1]],
                        download_directory = here::here("data"), force_download = T)


# build routing network
r5r_core <- r5r::setup_r5(data_path = here::here("data"), verbose = FALSE)

# get street network as sf
street_network <- r5r::street_network_to_sf(r5r_core)

# drop network outside our buffer
edges_buff <- street_network$edges[buff, ] %>% st_intersection(., buff)
vertices_buff <- street_network$vertices[buff, ] %>% st_intersection(., buff)
city_boundary_buff <- st_intersection(city_boundary, buff)
plot(city_boundary_buff)

# add id to vertices
vertices_buff$id <- vertices_buff$index


# calculate travel times to city center 
tt <- r5r::travel_time_matrix(r5r_core,
                              origins = vertices_buff,
                              destinations = city_center_df,
                              mode="walk")


# add travel time info to street network
tt$fromId <- as.numeric(tt$fromId)
setDT(edges_buff)[tt, on=c('from_vertex'='fromId'), travel_time := i.travel_time]
edges_buff <- st_sf(edges_buff)

Now we only need to plot and save the figure.

# figure
temp <- ggplot() + 
        geom_sf(data=buff, fill="lightblue", color=NA)  +
        geom_sf(data=city_boundary_buff, fill="white", size=.3)  +
        geom_sf(data=buff, fill="gray90", color=NA, alpha=.5)  +
        geom_sf(data=edges_buff, aes(color=travel_time, size=length))  +
        geom_sf(data=city_center_sf, color="red", size=.5) +
        scale_size_continuous(range = c(0.1, .8), guide="none") +
        scale_color_viridis_c(direction = -1) +
  labs(title="Walking time to city center",
       subtitle="Rio de Janeiro",
       caption = 'Image by @UrbanDemog using r5r and osmextract',
       color="Minutes") +
  coord_sf(xlim = c(buff_bb[[1]], buff_bb[[3]]), 
                 ylim = c(buff_bb[[2]], buff_bb[[4]]), expand = FALSE) + 
  theme_void() +
  theme(plot.background = element_rect(fill = "white", color="white"),
        plot.title = element_text(color = "gray20"),
        plot.subtitle = element_text(color = "gray40"),
        plot.caption = element_text(color = "gray"))
        
# save figure
ggsave(temp, file=here::here("img", "aa32k.png"), 
       dpi=300, width = 14, height = 14, units="cm")

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