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Data and Dashboards

Discover mobility data and visual evidence for planning, monitoring, and action

Find approved datasets, dashboards, maps, indicators, and data services that support mobility analysis, modelling, planning, service improvement, monitoring, research, and transparent decision-making.

ACCESS provides the context users need to judge whether a data resource is suitable for a particular purpose. Each record should explain ownership, coverage, structure, quality, update frequency, access conditions, licence, limitations, and responsible-use considerations.

Responsible access

Not every dataset should be open or downloadable. Public access depends on ownership, licence, privacy, security, confidentiality, safeguards, and legal requirements. Each record must clearly state what users may access and reuse.

Data routes

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Datasets

Find machine-readable data for analysis, modelling, monitoring, research, and service improvement.

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Data catalogue

Browse and Filter Data

Search, filters, and sorting should help users find data without requiring specialist knowledge of dataset names or systems.

Approved data resources will appear here once they are published.

Detail pages

Dataset Detail Page

  • Summary: what the dataset contains and potential uses.
  • Publisher and contact: responsible organisation, owner, and support route.
  • Coverage: geography, dates, population, modes, systems, or infrastructure represented.
  • Structure: variables, units, schema, data dictionary, identifiers, and file formats.
  • Access: download, API, external platform, request process, or restricted-access instructions.
  • Licence and attribution: permitted uses, restrictions, and required credit.
  • Quality and limitations: completeness, validation, uncertainty, known gaps, and comparability.
  • Update information: frequency, latest release, next expected update, and version history.
  • Privacy and ethics: aggregation, anonymisation, sensitive attributes, risks, and responsible use.
  • Examples: related analyses, dashboards, software, cases, methods, or learning activities.
  • Accessibility: accessible documentation and alternatives to visual-only explanations.
  • Last verified date and responsible record owner.
Detail pages

Dashboard Detail Page

  • Purpose and intended users
  • Questions or decisions the dashboard supports
  • Geographic and time coverage
  • Indicators, definitions, units, and calculation methods
  • Data sources and update frequency
  • Current reporting or refresh date
  • Filtering and download options
  • Evidence status and known limitations
  • Privacy, accessibility, and responsible-use information
  • Owner, maintenance status, and support contact
  • Related datasets, methods, cases, and programme results
Dashboard standard

A dashboard should not present figures without definitions, reporting periods, sources, methodology, and update dates. Where targets and results are shown, distinguish target, current result, cumulative result, and progress toward target.

Fitness for purpose

Data Quality and Fitness for Purpose

Availability does not necessarily mean that data are suitable for every use. Records should help users assess fitness for purpose.

Relevance

Does the resource answer the intended policy, planning, operational, or research question?

Coverage

Does it represent the required geography, period, mode, population, users, or system?

Completeness

Are important values, locations, groups, or time periods missing?

Accuracy and Validation

How was the information collected, checked, corrected, or compared?

Timeliness

Is the resource current enough for the intended decision?

Consistency

Are variables, definitions, and methods stable and comparable?

Inclusion

Whose travel, access, safety, work, or mobility needs may be missing or underrepresented?

Ethics and Safeguards

Could use or publication create privacy, security, exclusion, bias, or do-no-harm risks?

Labels

Data Access Labels

Open download

Available under a stated licence for permitted reuse.

Open API

Available through a documented public API or data service.

Access at source

Available on an approved external publisher or platform.

Registration required

Access requires an account or acceptance of stated conditions.

Available on request

Access is considered through an approved request and review process.

Restricted

Not publicly accessible because of privacy, security, confidentiality, legal, or ownership conditions.

Publishers

For Data Publishers

ACCESS should provide concise guidance for partners proposing or maintaining data records.

  • Use machine-readable formats where appropriate.
  • Provide complete metadata, documentation, and a data dictionary.
  • Identify the rights holder and select an appropriate licence.
  • Document collection, processing, quality checks, validation, and known limitations.
  • Complete privacy, ethics, security, and safeguards review before publication.
  • Use meaningful file names, stable identifiers, versions, and update dates.
  • Explain update responsibilities and how users can report errors.
  • Provide accessible summaries and documentation in relevant languages.
  • Review records periodically for broken links, outdated metadata, changed terms, or retired services.
Featured

Featured Data and Dashboards

Display a rotating selection of approved resources with clear public value. Featured items should be drawn dynamically from the central content system and should not be entered separately on this page.

Featured

A country or city dataset

Featured

A pilot or programme dashboard

Featured

An interactive map or framework tracker

Featured

An indicator methodology or metadata resource

Publication status

Do not feature a dataset, dashboard, map, API, or tracker until its owner, public-access status, source, methodology, update date, licence, privacy review, accessibility, and maintenance arrangements are confirmed.

Connecting the system

Connect Data with Learning and Application

  1. 1Data
  2. 2Analysis
  3. 3Evidence
  4. 4Decision
  5. 5Application
  6. 6Monitoring and Learning

Each resource should link users to relevant methods, tools, software, Learning Pathways, Courses and Trainings, implementation cases, and Community of Practice exchange. Where appropriate, provide tutorials or examples showing how the data can be interpreted and used responsibly.

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