DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14778265
title: Great Britain Accessibility Indicators 2023 (AI23)

description: Overview

Accessibility indicators measure the ease of reaching valuable destinations (Levinson and Wu 2020). The current dataset, Great Britain Accessibility Indicators 2023 (AI23), provides small-area indicators to key services such as health, education, employment, and urban centres.

This dataset is an updated and expanded version of the the Public Transport Accessibility Indicators for Great Britain 2022 (PTAI22) dataset (available at: https://zenodo.org/records/8037156, and described at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02890-w) (J. Rafael Verduzco Torres and McArthur 2024).

In particular, the AI23 dataset provides a suite of ready-to-use accessibility indicators by public transport,bicycle, and on foot to employment, general practices (GPs), hospitals, pharmacies, parks and gardens,primary and secondary schools, supermarkets, main urban centres, and urban sub-centres. These indicatorsare available for 42,000 small area units across Great Britain (GB), specifically at the Lower Super OutputArea (LSOA) level in England and Wales, and the Data Zone (DZ) level in Scotland. It includes active modes, specifically walking and cycling, in addition to public transport.

A full data descriptor is available here (URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qb9j4_v1) (Verduzco Torres & McArthur, 2024b).

 

Records






Variable



Description 





geo_code



2011 LSOA/DZ geo-code of origin





mode



Mode of transport used for the indicators, values: 'pt' = public transport, 'bicycle', 'walk'





time_of_day



Time of departure, values: 'am' = 7 a.m., 'pm' = 9 p.m. Available for public transport only.





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_15



Cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 15 minutes





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_30



Cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 30 minutes





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_45



Cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 45 minutes





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_60



Cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 60 minutes





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_75



Cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 75 minutes





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_90



Cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 90 minutes





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_105



Cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 105 minutes





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_120



Cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 120 minutes





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_15_pct



Relative cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 15 minutes. In percent, from 0 to 100.





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_30_pct



Relative cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 30 minutes. In percent, from 0 to 100.





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_45_pct



Relative cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 45 minutes. In percent, from 0 to 100.





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_60_pct



Relative cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 60 minutes. In percent, from 0 to 100.





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_75_pct



Relative cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 75 minutes. In percent, from 0 to 100.





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_90_pct



Relative cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 90 minutes. In percent, from 0 to 100.





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_105_pct



Relative cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 105 minutes. In percent, from 0 to 100.





access_<NAME OF SERVICE>_120_pct



Relative cumulative accessibility: Number of services of type k within 120 minutes. In percent, from 0 to 100.





nearest_<NAME OF SERVICE>



Travel time in minutes to the nearest service of type k





 

Citation

If you use this dataset or part of it, you are encouraged to use the following citation:



1. J Rafael Verduzco Torres, & David McArthur. (2024). Great Britain Accessibility Indicators 2023 (AI23) (Version 2023) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14778265

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

3. Verduzco Torres, J. R., & McArthur, D. P. (2024a). Great Britain Accessibility Indicators 2023: Data descriptor. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qb9j4


@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}, }
@article{VerduzcoTorres2024a,  title = {Great {{Britain Accessibility Indicators}} 2023: {{Data}} Descriptor},  shorttitle = {Great {{Britain Accessibility Indicators}} 2023},  author = {Verduzco Torres, Jose Rafael and McArthur, David Philip},  date = {2024-03-23},  eprinttype = {OSF},  doi = {10.31235/osf.io/qb9j4},  url = {https://osf.io/qb9j4},  urldate = {2024-03-25}}


 

 
description: This is a long-term copy of the dataset published at: https://data.ubdc.ac.uk/datasets/accessibility-indicators