projects

Great Britain Trip Database Portal (GBDP)

Connected Places Catapult is providing free access to anonymised and aggregated Mobile Network data, provided by O2.

June 4, 2024

The system provides a database of trip records derived from mobile phone data. The database has been built by Telefónica UK (O2) and relates to all motorised road and rail trips throughout Great Britain (the UK mainland) during 2016 or 2019.

The data is available free of charge for research purposes, supporting academia and SMEs via a web interface that allows users to obtain anonymised and aggregated origin/destination data for those research projects.

The GBDP can support both Academia and SMEs by providing insights into past and current travel patterns:

To develop research, study travel behaviours across the UK mainland and assess novel use cases;
To validate business models and to support testing and demonstrators for new products and services, tailored around users’ needs.

Access here

A guide for the data request process, and methodology on how Mobile Network Data is pre-processed, are both available by contacting the Connected Places Catapult project lead, here.

Each data request will be approved by Connected Places Catapult and subject to acceptance of Ts&Cs.

Use Cases

These previous use cases display how Mobile Network Data has been used to understand travel patterns and users’ behaviour.

Several yellow electric vans, critical for decarbonising last mile road freight, are parked in a row and connected to charging stations in an outdoor setting.

Report

Rural innovation for sustainable environments - decarbonising last mile road freight

In 2020, domestic transport carbon dioxide emissions fell by 19.6% against 2019 levels due to reduced transport usage in response to the COVID 19 pandemic. However, contribution from vans to the UK’s total emissions reached 19% in 2020, an increase of 2% from 2019.