# Pavements

## Introduction

**Pavement Link Feature Type definition**: A subsection of the Road Link geometry that indicates where there is pavement on either side of the road.

A pavement is defined as a raised, paved or man-made surface for pedestrian use at the side of a road. Understanding the location of pavements can help provide insight into the accessibility of an area for pedestrians, as well as giving useful information for maintaining and monitoring these features as assets.

Within the OS NGD, there are several feature types which will allow you to view and analyse pavement data, each with their own designs and intended use cases. These pavement representations are all found within the OS NGD Transport Theme and are listed below:

* [A polygon representation](/osngd/using-os-ngd-data/os-ngd-transport/pavements/pavement-polygons.md) in the Road Track Or Path Feature Type.
* [Specific pavement attribution](/osngd/using-os-ngd-data/os-ngd-transport/pavements/pavement-attribution.md) provided on the Road Link Feature Type describing the presence and dimensions of pavements associated with the specific Road Link.
* [A dedicated Pavement Link Feature Type](/osngd/using-os-ngd-data/os-ngd-transport/pavements/pavement-link-feature-type.md) to help you understand where individual pavements start and end, and the pavement widths for each side of the road.

The following sub-sections give more detailed information about the above three representations and how they can be used, to allow you to decide which of them is best suited for your use case:

* [Pavement polygons](/osngd/using-os-ngd-data/os-ngd-transport/pavements/pavement-polygons.md)
* [Pavement attribution](/osngd/using-os-ngd-data/os-ngd-transport/pavements/pavement-attribution.md)
* [Pavement Link Feature Type](/osngd/using-os-ngd-data/os-ngd-transport/pavements/pavement-link-feature-type.md)


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