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Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area
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The analysis of pedestrian GPS datasets is fundamental to further advance on the study and the design of walkable cities. The highest resolution GPS data can characterize micro-mobility patterns and pedestrians’ micro-motives in relation to a small-scale urban context. Purposed-based recurrent mobility data inside people’s neighbourhoods is an important source in these sorts of studies. However, micro-mobility around people’s homes is generally unavailable, and if data exists, it is generally not shareable often due to privacy issues. Citizen science and its public involvement practices in scientific research are valid options to circumvent these challenges and provide meaningful datasets for walkable cities. The study presents GPS records from single-day home-to-school pedestrian mobility of 10 schools in the Barcelona Metropolitan area (Spain). The research provides pedestrian mobility from an age-homogeneous group of people. The study shares processed records with specific filtering, cleaning, and interpolation procedures that can facilitate and accelerate data usage. Citizen science practices during the whole research process are reported to offer a complete perspective of the data collected.
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LARROYA, Ferran, et al. Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area. Scientific Data. 2023. Vol. 10, num. 428. ISSN 2052-4463. [consulted: 17 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/222003