GREENTRAVEL Public Participation GIS survey on active mobility in Europe

This GIS dataset contains point data on pleasant and unpleasant places as well as greenery preferences along everyday active mobility routes that urban residents mapped in five European cities: Helsinki Metropolitan Area (=1114 respondents), Greater London (=1188), Greater Copenhagen (=1225), Munich (=855) and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (=582). The data was collected through an online Public Participation GIS survey, titled “Greentravel: A survey on your everyday active travel environment”. It was distributed in December 2023 to January 2024 using a random sampling approach through a panel company in all cities, except in Greater Copenhagen, where respondents were sampled directly through the Danish Registry Data.

The survey was implemented by researchers at the Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Copenhagen. The data is GDPR compliant.

The data is provided in shapefile format. It comprises separate shapefile in point format of (1) pleasant places, (2) unpleasant places and (3) where to add street greenery for each study city as follows:

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

• Helsinki_Pleasant (1222 individual points)
• Helsinki­_Unpleasant (753 individual points)
• Helsinki_Street_Greenery (307 individual points)

Greater London

• London_Pleasant (1053 individual points)
• London_Unpleasant (445 individual points)
• London_Street_Greenery (201 individual points)

Greater Copenhagen

• Copenhagen_Pleasant (1545 individual points)
• Copenhagen­_Unpleasant (1090 individual points)
• Copenhagen_Street_Greenery (411 individual points)

Munich

• Munich_Pleasant (751 individual points)
• Munich­_Unpleasant (376 individual points)
• Munich_Street_Greenery (122 individual points)

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

• LasPalmas_Pleasant (552 individual points)
• LasPalmas_Unpleasant (261 individual points)
• LasPalmas_Street_Greenery (200 individual points)

Definitions

Active mobility was defined for respondents in the survey as “non-motorised forms of travel such as walking or cycling that you use on a regular daily basis to get to a destination (e.g. go to work, school, shop, but excluding trips for leisure)”. Pleasant and unpleasant categoriesas well as street greenery elements which survey respondents could identify are defined in the GREENTRAVEL_PPGIS_SurveyDescription.pdf document. 

The PPGIS survey through which this data was collected is part of the GREENTRAVEL project, funded by the European Union (Grant Number: 101044906). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor European Research Council can be held responsible for them.