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Figurę 1: Map of Norway with the location of Stavanger and Sandnes.

Figurę 2: Rogaland county with the municipality of Stavanger in red and Sandnes in blue.

2 Background

2.1 Geography and population

Stavanger and Sandnes is located in the county of Rogaland, Norway as seen by Figurę 1 and 2. Statistics Norway (SSB) [1] provides maps showing the population density of an area. One such map of Stavanger and Sandnes has been used as the basis for drawing an outline of the urban areas in Figurę 3 on the next page.

SSB provided some vital statistics for the two municipalities which is shown in Table 1 on the following page. The table also contains some other statistics in addition to SSB’s population and area statistics. Since we are designing a GSM network for the city areas we only use the urban area and urban population statistics. We also make the assumption that the population growth within each municipality is uniformly distributed over the area it covers.

Using the distance calculation tool from Temakart Rogaland [2] the length of highway E39, as shown in Figurę 3, was found to be about 10.7 km. We also assume that we will be able to get a market share of 35% .

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