traveltime: Calculate Travel Times Over Space

Calculate travel time across a landscape from a set of user-specified locations, over a friction surface describing the time taken to cross each cell. Implements the least-cost travel time approach of Weiss et al. (2018) <doi:10.1038/nature25181> and Weiss et al. (2020) <doi:10.1038/s41591-020-1059-1>, and provides convenient access to their global walking and motorised friction surfaces via the 'malariaAtlas' package. Travel times are computed with 'terra'. See Ryan et al. (2025) <doi:10.12688/gatesopenres.16356.1> for further details.

Package details

AuthorGerry Ryan [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0183-7630>), Daniel Weiss [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6175-5648>), Nicholas Tierney [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1460-8722>)
MaintainerGerry Ryan <gerry.ryan@thekids.org.au>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version1.0.0
URL https://idem-lab.github.io/traveltime/  https://github.com/idem-lab/traveltime 
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("traveltime")

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traveltime documentation built on Oct. 31, 2026, 5:06 p.m.