MetropAccess-Travel Time Matrix – Data description

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DESCRIPTION
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The data consists of travel time and distance information of the routes in Helsinki Metropolitan Region that have been calculated from all SYKE YKR grid cells (n = 13230) to all YKR grid cells (n = 13230) by walking, public transportion and car.

Data has been produced by the MetropAccess Project at the Department of Geosciences and Geography, the University of Helsinki (2010-2014). The work has been funded by KatuMetro research programme and the University of Helsinki.

The data may be used freely. We do not take any responsibility for any mistakes, errors or other deficiencies in the data.

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DATA STRUCTURE
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The data have been divided into 13230 text files according to destinations of the routes. One file includes the routes from all YKR grid cells to a particular destination grid cell. All files have been named according to the destination grid cell code and each file includes 13230 rows.

Each file consists of 9 attribute fields: 1) from_id, 2) to_id, 3) Walk_time, 4) Walk_dist, 5) PT_total_time, 6) PT_time, 7) PT_dist, 8) Car_time, and 9) Car_dist. The fields are separated by semicolon. All fields are explained below:

from_id: ID number of the origin grid cell

to_id: ID number of the destination grid cell

Walk_time: Travel time from origin to destination by walking

Walk_time: Distance in meters of the walking route

PT_total_time: Travel time from origin to destination by public transportation; whole travel chain has been taken into account including the waiting time at home

PT_time: Travel time from origin to destination by public transportation; whole travel chain has been taken into account excluding the waiting time at home

PT_dist: Distance in meters of the public transportation route

Car_time: Travel time from origin to destination by private car; the whole travel chain has been taken into account

Car_dist: Distance in meters of the private car route

NODATA values are described with value -1.

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METHODS
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The routes by car have been calculated in ArcGIS 10.1 software by using the OD Cost Matrix tool in Network Analyst toolkit. MetropAccess-Digiroad (modified from the original Digiroad data provided by Finnish Transport Agency) has been used as Network Dataset in which the travel times of the road segments are made more realistic by adding crossroad impedances for different road classes. The “noon impedance” (i.e. travel times outside rush hour) has been used as impedance in the calculations.

The whole travel chain (“door-to-door approach”) is taken into account in the calculations: 1) walking time from the real origin to the nearest network location based on Euclidean distance), 2) average walking time from the origin to the parking lot, 3) travel time from parking lot to destination, 4) average time for searching a parking lot, 5) walking time from parking lot to nearest network location of the destination and 6) walking time from network location to the real destination (based on Euclidean distance).

The routes by public transport have been calculated by using the MetropAccess-Reititin tool which also takes into account the whole ravel chains from the origin to the destination:
e.g. 1) possible waiting at home before leaving, 2) walking from home to the transit stop, 3) waiting at the transit stop, 4) travel ime to next transit stop, 5) transport mode change, 6) travel time to next transit stop and 7) walking to the destination. Scedules on riday 8.4.2013 at 12 am were used in the calculations.

The routes by walking were also calculated using the MetropAccess-Reititin by disabling all motorized transport modes in the calculation. Thus, all routes are based on the Open Street Map geometry. The walking speed has been adjusted to 70 meters per minute, which is the default speed in the HSL Journey Planner (also in the calculations by public transportation).

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CITATION PRACTICES
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If you use MetropAccess-Travel Time Matrix dataset or related tools in your work, we encourage you to cite properly to our work.

You can cite to our work as follows:

MetropAccess (2014). Multimodal accessibility measures in the Helsinki metropolitan region: MetropAccess-Travel Time Matrix. University of Helsinki, The Department of Geosciences and Geography. https://blogs.helsinki.fi/accessibility/data/

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LICENSE
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MetropAccess travel time matrix by MetropAccess-project/ Accessibility Research Group (University of Helsinki) is licensed under a creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. More information about license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

If the datasets are being used extensively in scientific research, we welcome the opportunity for co-authorship of papers. Please contact project leader to discuss about the matter.

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