Glasgow Origin-Destination (OD) Matrices

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Origin-Destination (OD) Matrices that provide information about number of trips between different origins and destinations in the Glasgow City Region. E Location data from mobile phone apps aggregated by Huq Industries was used to derive OD Matrices.

Calculating OD Matrices from the mobile phone app data involved the following steps:

  • Filtering out inaccurate and imprecise GPS points.
  • Estimating stay locations using time and distance thresholds. A stay location is detected if a user spent at least 5 minutes in a 500m radius area.
  • Extraction of trips between stay locations.
  • Associating each detected stay location with an Intermediate Zone (IZ) in the Glasgow City Region.
  • Applying weights based on the user’s home location Intermediate Zone and their activity status in the dataset.
  • Aggregating the number of trips between each origin-destination pair.

Additional Information: To validate the methodology, the output OD product was compared with the OD matrix derived from the Scottish Household Survey. This comparison, based on the percentage of trips between local authorities in the Glasgow City Region, demonstrated a high correlation score (0.99) and a low mean squared error (0.0011).

Access and Restrictions

Glasgow Origin-Destination (OD) Matrices is currently available externally for non-commercial academic research. The data is available to request as Safeguarded data under UBDC's End User Licence.

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Urban Big Data Centre (2024). Glasgow Origin-Destination (OD) Matrices [Data set]. University of Glasgow. https://doi.org/10.20394/t1adlw71
Retrieved: 09:34 05 Dec 2024 (UTC)

Additional Info

Title Glasgow Origin-Destination (OD) Matrices
Alternative title
URL origin-destination-matrix
Description

Origin-Destination (OD) Matrices that provide information about number of trips between different origins and destinations in the Glasgow City Region. E Location data from mobile phone apps aggregated by Huq Industries was used to derive OD Matrices.

Calculating OD Matrices from the mobile phone app data involved the following steps:

  • Filtering out inaccurate and imprecise GPS points.
  • Estimating stay locations using time and distance thresholds. A stay location is detected if a user spent at least 5 minutes in a 500m radius area.
  • Extraction of trips between stay locations.
  • Associating each detected stay location with an Intermediate Zone (IZ) in the Glasgow City Region.
  • Applying weights based on the user’s home location Intermediate Zone and their activity status in the dataset.
  • Aggregating the number of trips between each origin-destination pair.

Additional Information: To validate the methodology, the output OD product was compared with the OD matrix derived from the Scottish Household Survey. This comparison, based on the percentage of trips between local authorities in the Glasgow City Region, demonstrated a high correlation score (0.99) and a low mean squared error (0.0011).

Access and Restrictions

Glasgow Origin-Destination (OD) Matrices is currently available externally for non-commercial academic research. The data is available to request as Safeguarded data under UBDC's End User Licence.
Content

Location data from mobile phone apps aggregated by Huq Industries was used to derive OD Matrices.
Subjects Transport And Mobility
Topics
Dataset Citation
Time Period Coverage January 01, 2019 – December 31, 2022
Geographical Coverage Glasgow North Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire Inverclyde Renfrewshire East Renfrewshire West Dunbartonshire East Dunbartonshire
Spatial Units Intermediate Zone
Observation Units add if applicable
Resource Type Dataset
Data Format CSV zipped file
Weighting
Method of Collection

This dataset utilizes secondary data from mobile phone applications provided by Huq. Additional details about this data source can be found on the UBDC website.
Collection Status ongoing
Dataset Aggregation
Data Owner Urban Big Data Centre
Data Owner Url https://www.ubdc.ac.uk/
License other-closed
Licence Specifics

for non-commercial academic research only
Provider b2ba2219-ff6c-461a-a746-e762ef7600fd
Version
Dataset Available
Dataset Closed
Dataset Valid
Dataset Updating Frequency
Dataset Next Version Due
Date Published 2024-07-17
Date of Fieldwork
Dataset File Type
Dataset File Size 1.5 MB
Dataset Creation Date 2024-07-17
Dataset Access Restrictions Safeguarded Dataset
Metadata Created Date
Metadata Created Institution
Dataset Fields (6)
  • origin_iz11
    • Field Name:
    origin_iz11
    Description:

    Geographical zone of the trip's origin (IZ level)

    Type:
  • origin_council_11
    • Field Name:
    origin_council_11
    Description:

    Local Authority zone of the trip's origin

    Type:
  • destination_iz11
    • Field Name:
    destination_iz11
    Description:

    Geographical zone of the trip's destination (IZ level)

    Type:
  • destination_council_11
    • Field Name:
    destination_council_11
    Description:

    Local Authority zone of the trip's destination

    Type:
  • trips
    • Field Name:
    trips
    Description:

    Number of detected annual trips (unweighted, globally unscaled)

    Type:
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