DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8037156
title: 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






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





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





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:



1. Verduzco Torres, J. R., & McArthur, D. P. (2024). Public transport accessibility indicators to urban and regional services in Great Britain. Scientific Data, 11(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02890-w


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},
}


 

 
description: This is a long-term version of the dataset published at: http://ubdc.gla.ac.uk/dataset/public-transport-accessibility-indicators-2022/resource/9dc1517f-afd5-4cfe-bbee-5315483fab72.