%0 Generic %A Nelson, Ruth %D 2024 %T City of Cape Town Urban Datasets %U %R 10.4121/c34ff74b-30ce-4ed2-9e45-1910ca3e3470.v1 %K cape town %K transport %K Railway %K MyCiti BRT %K Census 2011 %K bus rapid transit %X <p>There are 6 main datasets relating to the Metropolitan area of Cape Town in South Africa associated with MAP: Mapping Accessibility for Ethically Informed Urban Planning project (<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14500637" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14500637</a>). The exact structure of each data set can be found in the CT_data dictionaries excel file.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong> </strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Land use</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify">The land use data is in point geometry format (shapefile) and contains all places of employment in the City of Cape Town.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>MyCiti vertices (stops/stations)</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify">This file is in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 250, 234);">comma-separated values (csv) format and represent the MyCiti BRT stops with the names of each stop and columns for the x and y coordinates.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>MyCiti edges (transport routes)</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify">This is in shapefile format and represents<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 250, 234);"> the routes of the transport network with columns for the name of the source station/stop, target station/stop, associated travel time for that route in minutes and line geometry.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Railway vertices (stops/stations)</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 250, 234);">This file is in comma-separated values (csv) format and represents the MetroRail stops with the names of each stop and columns for the x and y coordinates.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Railway edges (transport routes)</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify">This is in shapefile format and represents<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 250, 234);"> the routes of the transport network with columns for the name of the source station, target station, associated travel time for that route in minutes and line geometry.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"> </p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Neighbourhoods (neighbourhood geometries)</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify">This file contians socio-economic data linked to the neighbourhood administrative unit within a shapefile. This is derived from the South African National Census 2011. It has columns for the name of each neighbourhood, total population count, total population above 18, total population with a matric diploma (finished Grade 12), total employed population, population between the ages of 18 and 65, average income for the neighbourhood in South African Rand currency and polygon geometry.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>CT_data dictionaries</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify">This is an excel file which contains data dictionaries for the provided data sets.</p><p><br></p> %I 4TU.ResearchData