README File for 'Online appendix: How affordable is rail? Dissertation'

ReadMe Author: Christopher C Brown, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the following paper: How affordable is rail? A spatial-microsimulation based case study of lines linking Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds

Author: Brown, C. Supervisors: Young, M and Blainey, S

Dissertation submitted for MSc Transportation Planning and Engineering (Behaviour)

This dataset includes: 

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The .html file, 'interactive_maps_spatial_distribution_of_affordability'.

This can be opened in any web browser, and provides summary statistics from the affordability analysis in an explorable format.

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The .zip file, 'rail_affordability_code_repository', 

All files within this .zip are in .RMD format, which can be opened using R, a free open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Instructions for downloading R (and R Studio - the easiest way of using R) are available via the following link: https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/installing-R-windows-mac-ubuntu

The .zip file contains the following files, organised under the stated folders. References to specific files are found in the main dissertation text.

Folder: rail_users_income_and_trends_analysis
-- inflation_fares_income_motoring_index
-- increase_in_rail_use
-- map_of_travel_to_work_rail_mode_share
-- relationship_between_rail_use_and_income
-- rail_use_income_and_ethnicity
-- rail_use_income_and_sex
-- existing_rail_use

Folder: define case study area
-- case_study_area_map
-- linking_msoas_to_stations
-- walking_distance_analysis
-- msoas_to_station_network_analysis (.TXT outlining segment of processing conducted in ArcGIS Pro)

Folder: micro_sim_prep_and_application
-- worked_example_of_ipf
-- variable_selection_modelling
-- processing_aggregate_data
-- preparing_microdata
-- ipf_script

Folder: rail_fares_and_driving_costs
-- derive_fares_data_from_BRfares
-- trip_costs_by_road


Folder: affordability_analysis
-- apply_affordability_metrics
-- spatial_variance_in_rail_fares
-- proportional_analysis_of_lihc
-- spatial_distribution_of_lihc
-- statistical_analysis_of_lihc
-- unaffordability_huddersfield_to_batley

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Input data used during these scripts can be obtained from:

National Travel Survey (NTS) and Understanding Society dataset (USd): https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/
2011 Census tables: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/
2011 Census flows data: https://census.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/flow-data.aspx
Census boundaries and centroids: https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/
ONS VectorMap District railway shapes: https://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/os/data_information/os_products/os_vectormap_district.htm

For copywrite reasons, data could not be shared along with the code.

Contact the author with any questions at ccb2n19@soton.ac.uk.

Enjoy. It's been a blast.

DATE THAT THE FILE WAS CREATED: 20/09/2020