NWB Roads route system Rijkswegen and Provincial roads, segmentation mode A, route3 (RWS)

The NWB-Wegen is a digital geographical file of all roads in the Netherlands. Included are all roads managed by road managers such as the State, provinces, municipalities and water boards, but only to the extent that they have a street name or number. Thus, loose foot and bike paths and unpaved roads are included in the NWB-Wegen, if provided with a street name. If a road has separate lanes, which is especially the case with Rijkswegen, these are processed as separate road sections in the file. The NWB-Wegen file currently consists of more than 158,000 hectolitres and more than 1 million digitised road sections with a total length of almost 158,000 kilometres (measurement 2020). In this derivative product, however, all of them are included in the national and provincial roads. It is possible to segment the route system based on information present in below the road section entities. There are two possible variants: A: hectointervals: B: combination of hecto intervals and positions of hecto points. The difference between the two variants is that variant A is based on the situation in which hectometer poles are on a road section at equal distances from each other. In practice, this is not the case, which is why variant B has been developed. In this variant, each segment is formed by the positions of the hectogen points, combined with hectometerisation of hectoid jumps and in conjunction with road sections (i.e. the hectto intervals). Because the user will want to display the network at different levels, five different route systems are provided. The NWB_roads_route product is updated monthly. More information and news about the NWB can be found at https://nationaalwegenbestand.nl/ Representatives of municipalities, provinces, water boards and Rijkswaterstaat have started designing and organising the cooperation around the NWB. As part of this further development of the NWB, we are happy to get in touch with you, the NWB user. Therefore, we ask you to send an email with your contact details to the following address: [email protected]