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Figure 1. Municipalities of Savonlinna and Rääkkylä of Finnish Lakeland with
their service area polygons (25 and 50 km) around their statistical population
centres. Town hall locations have been marked for reference.

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Source: Statistics Finland and National Land Survey open data Creative Commons 4.0

5. Elementary school accessibility
Municipal elementary school proximity by road has been estimated
annually due to demand. This has been estimated by point-to-point road
distance (pedestrian roads allowed) within the same municipality in each age
class and school type. Private schools in Finland are few and thus irrelevant
from this perspective.
Figure 2 represents preliminary school proximity in a small (by population)
municipality of Salo. 30,7 percent of the preliminary age group, 7 to 12 years,
live within one kilometre of their nearest school, 77,4 percent within three
kilometres accordingly.

6. Experimental sustainable commuting model
Statistical commuting is currently the most sophisticated statistical
accessibility example of Statistics Finland. It has been targeting the challenging
travel time estimation to enrich the existing official statistics. The commuting
time and distance can be calculated as a point-to-point estimate from almost
every employee’s home to a corresponding workplace – the national
coordinate coverage being about 93 percent.
Models are built for both commuting time and distance by driving, cycling
and using public transport within the national route network. This requires
different datasets of which automatic traffic measuring devices and public

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