High-resolution traffic flow data in Glasgow

Description of the dataset

This dataset offers a long-term traffic flow data at an intra-city scale with high spatio-temporal granularity. The dataset covers the Glasgow City Council area for four consecutive years spanning the COVID-19 pandemic, from October 2019 to September 2023, providing comprehensive temporal and spatial coverage. 

The code used to produce the indicators is available at: https://github.com/YueLi-0816/TrafficFlowData.

This work is funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) from the Ministry of Education of P.R. China, the ESRC’s ongoing support for the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), and the Royal Society International Exchange Scheme.

Contents

Sensor status metadata - status.csv

Column name

Description

id

Unique ID for each sensor, e.g., GA0601_T.

latitude

The Latitude in decimal degrees of WGS84 coordinates, e.g., 55.86238129.

longitude

The Longitude in decimal degrees of WGS84 coordinates, e.g., -4.26570708.

step 1

The status of sensors at the current step is 1 if retained and 0 if removed.

step 2

The status of sensors at the current step is 1 if retained and 0 if removed.

step 3

The status of sensors at the current step is 1 if retained and 0 if removed.

step 4

The status of sensors at the current step is 1 if retained and 0 if removed.

step 5.1

The status of sensors at the current step is 1 if retained and 0 if removed.

step 5.2

The status of sensors at the current step is 1 if retained and 0 if removed.

Sensor location metadata - locations.csv

Column name
Description

id
Unique ID for each sensor, e.g., GA0601_T.

latitude
The Latitude in decimal degrees of WGS84 coordinates, e.g., 55.86238129.

longitude
The Longitude in decimal degrees of WGS84 coordinates, e.g., -4.26570708.

Traffic flows metadata

File name
Description

[sensor_id].csv
Traffic flows. [sensor_id] refers to the ‘id’ from the locations.csv

Column name
Description

date
The date the data is collected (YYYY-MM-DD), e.g., 2021-11-04.

time
The hours of the day the data is collected range from 0 to 23, 0 = [0,1), 23 = [23,24).

flow
Number of vehicles that pass the sensor location during the one-hour interval.