Urban Big Data Centre, and McArthur, D. (2025) Public Transport Availability Indicators (PTAI) 2016. [Data Collection]

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Collection description

Overview:
Public Transport Availability Indicators (PTAI) 2016 is a key dataset relevant to urban analytics studies. The transport dataset contains public transport availability (PTA) indicators at both the stop/station and small-area levels: lower layer super output area (LSOA) and middle layer super output area (MSOA). It was one of three new forms of key datasets relevant to urban analytics studies produced by Urban Big Data Centre. The employment dataset provides information on the number of people with access to employment within specific distances from each output area. The housing datasets contains quarterly house rent and sales prices aggregated at output area level (MSOA).

Value of the data:
• Data provides country-wide urban area metrics (public transport availability (PTA), Housing, and Employment access) at small-area levels as well as stop/station-level (for PTA, based on service frequency and service area).
• The new urban area metrics can be used to study spatial and social inequalities in various facets of the urban areas (transport access, rental market dynamics, access to jobs, educational deprivation), and further estimate health, job, and educational outcomes of populations living in deprived areas (e.g. poor public transport services) see Anejionu et al. (2019).
• The data can also be used to compare impacts of policies, industrial and structural changes on intra-city dynamics across the entire country.
• Data provides increased frequency of assessing and tracking changes in critical aspects of the urban area (housing rent prices fluctuations, spatial inequalities in PTA etc.) compared to decennial census or national survey datasets.
• Longitudinal datasets can be used for in monitoring intra- and inter- annual spatiotemporal changes in the urban area with high level of spatial precision.

Dataset:
The transport data offers public transport availability indicators at both the stop/station and small area levels across Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland). Specifically, we offer stop-level public transport availability data “GB_STOP_PTAI_2016.csv”, LSOA-level public transport availability data “GB_LSOA_PTAI_2016.csv”, and MSOA-level public transport availability data “GB_MSOA_PTAI_2016.csv”. Additionally, these data also include the LSOA and MSOA boundaries across Great Britain (“GB_LSOA_2011” and “GB_MSOA_2011”).

Access and restrictions:
UBDC's licence agreement provides access for conducting non-commercial research. To use the data, researchers need to apply to UBDC setting out a summary of the work they plan to undertake so that the usage can be assessed against these criteria. Please apply to UBDC. If the intended use falls within the terms of the licence, researchers will be asked to sign an End User Licence agreement. Datasets will be shared with eligible applicants on receipt of completed license agreements.

More information:
Great Britain Transport, Housing, and Employment Access Datasets for small-area Urban Area Analytics
October 2019Data in Brief 27:104616
DOI:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104616
LicenseCC BY 4.0
https://www.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104616
A variety of raw data used to produce some of the datasets (e.g. PTA) is also included to enable interested readers to reproduce them.

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