Public Transport Accessibility Indicators for Great Britain
Description
Description of the dataset
This dataset offers public transport accessibility indicators aggregated by 2011 statistical geographies to a range of key services, namely: employment, general practices (GP), hospitals, supermarkets, primary schools, secondary schools, and urban centres. Accessibility indicators were estimated for all 41,729 LSOA/DZ in Great Britain. Origins are represented by LSOA/DZ population-weighted centroids based on the boundaries defined for the 2011 Census. LSOA’s centroids for England and Wales were produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and manually downloaded from the UK Government open data portal (https://data.gov.uk/) on 2021-12-12 (version last updated on 2019-12-21). DZ centroids in Scotland are published by the Scottish Government and were manually downloaded from the UK Government’s open data portal (https://data.gov.uk/) (version last updated on 2021-03-26).
A full data descriptor including validation is available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02890-w
The code used to produce the indicators is available at: https://github.com/urbanbigdatacentre/access_uk_open
This is a work developed by the Urban Big Data Centre of the University of Glasgow and it is supported by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Contents
Travel time matrix (TTM) metadata
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Variable |
Type |
Description |
|
fromId |
nominal |
2011 LSOA/DZ geo-code of origin |
|
toId |
nominal |
2011 LSOA/DZ geo-code of destination |
|
travel_time_p025 |
numeric |
25 travel time percentile by public transport in minutes |
|
travel_time_p050 |
numeric |
50 travel time percentile by public transport in minutes |
|
travel_time_p075 |
numeric |
75 travel time percentile by public transport in minutes |
Accessibility indicators metadata
|
File |
Measure |
Description |
|
Employment |
||
|
employment/ access_employment_pt.csv |
Cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of employment positions within N minutes by public transport |
|
employment/ access_employment_pt.csv |
Relative cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of employment positions within N minutes by public transport divided by the total number in Great Britain |
|
GPs |
||
|
gp/access_gp_pt.csv |
Cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of GPs within N minutes by public transport |
|
gp/access_gp_pt.csv |
Relative cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of GPs within N minutes by public transport divided by the total number in Great Britain |
|
gp/access_gp_pt.csv |
Minimum travel time |
Closest LSOA/DZ that contains at least one GP |
|
Hospitals |
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hospitals/access_hospital_pt.csv |
Cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of hospitals within N minutes by public transport |
|
hospitals/access_hospital_pt.csv |
Relative cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of hospitals within N minutes by public transport divided by the total number in Great Britain |
|
hospitals/access_hospital_pt.csv |
Minimum travel time |
Closest LSOA/DZ that contains at least one hospital |
|
Education: Primary schools and secondary schools |
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|
schools/access_school_pt.csv |
Cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of primary schools within N minutes by public transport |
|
schools/access_school_pt.csv |
Relative cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of primary schools within N minutes by public transport divided by the total number in Great Britain |
|
schools/access_school_pt.csv |
Minimum travel time |
Closest LSOA/DZ that contains at least one primary school |
|
schools/access_school_pt.csv |
Cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of secondary schools within N minutes by public transport |
|
schools/access_school_pt.csv |
Relative cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of secondary schools within N minutes by public transport divided by the total number in Great Britain |
|
schools/access_school_pt.csv |
Minimum travel time |
Closest LSOA/DZ that contains at least one secondary school |
|
Urban centre; city and greater city |
||
|
urban_centre/access_cities_pt.csv |
Minimum travel time |
Closest city |
|
urban_centre/access_cities_pt.csv |
Minimum travel time |
Closest greater city |
|
Supermarkets |
||
|
supermarket/ access_supermaet_pt.csv |
Cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of supermarkets within N minutes by public transport |
|
supermarket/ access_supermaet_pt.csv |
Relative cumulative: time cut 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120 |
Number of supermarkets within N minutes by public transport divided by the total number in Great Britain |
|
supermarket/ access_supermaet_pt.csv |
Minimum travel time |
Closest LSOA/DZ that contains at least one supermarket |
The indices in the files ending in `_car.csv` have not undergone validation. These limitations should be acknowledged when using these measures.
Citation
If you use this dataset or part of it, you are encouraged to use the following citation:
2. Verduzco Torres, J. R., & McArthur, D. (2022). Public Transport Accessibility Indicators for Great Britain [dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8037156
@article{VerduzcoTorres2024,
title = {Public Transport Accessibility Indicators to Urban and Regional Services in {{Great Britain}}},
author = {Verduzco Torres, J. Rafael and McArthur, David Philip},
year = {2024},
month = jan,
journal = {Scientific Data},
volume = {11},
number = {1},
pages = {53},
publisher = {{Nature Publishing Group}},
doi = {10.1038/s41597-023-02890-w},
urldate = {2024-01-15},
}
@misc{VerduzcoTorres2022a,
title = {Public {Transport} {Accessibility} {Indicators} for {Great} {Britain}},
url = {https://zenodo.org/record/8037156},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8037156},
publisher = {Zenodo},
author = {Verduzco Torres, J. Rafael and McArthur, David},
month = jun,
year = {2022},
keywords = {accessibility, employment, public transport, education services, publich health services, urban services},
}
Notes
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Additional details
Related works
- Is described by
- Data paper: 10.1038/s41597-023-02890-w (DOI)
- Is supplement to
- Technical note: 10.5281/zenodo.6759240 (DOI)
Funding
- Urban Big Data Centre ES/S007105/1
- UK Research and Innovation
- Urban Big Data ES/L011921/1
- UK Research and Innovation