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. 2012 Jun 27;11:24. doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-11-24

Table 2.

Walking speed across different land cover types during the dry and wet season. Travel speed were compiled from Pozzi & Robinson [[64]]

Land cover type Dry season Wet season
 
Walking
Walking
Open or sparse vegetation
Includes open grassland, open grassland with shrubs, sparse grassland, croplands (>50%), croplands with woody vegetation
3 km/h (20 min/km)
2 km/h (30 min/km)
Deciduous Shrub land/woodland
Irrigated Croplands
1.5 km/h (40 min/km)
1 km/h (60 min/km)
Closed grassland
 
 
Desert
1.5 km/h
1 km/h
Stony desert
1.5 km/h
Impassable
Bare Rock
1.5 km/h
Impassable
Water bodies
Impassable
Impassable
Cities 4 km/h (15 min/km) 3 km/h (20 min/km)