Metadata record for the manuscript: Urban Access Across the Globe: An International Comparison of Different Transport Modes

<p><b>Summary</b></p> <p>This metadata record provides details of the data supporting the claims of the related manuscript: “Urban Access Across the Globe: An International Comparison of Different Transport Modes ”.</p> <p>The related study examines the relationship between population-weighted access (the ease of reaching valued destinations) and metropolitan population in global metropolitan areas (cities).</p> <p> </p> <p>Type of data: access, calculated as the cumulative number of jobs reachable under a 30-minute travel time threshold</p> <p>Subject of data: 117 cities from 16 countries and 6 continents</p> <p> </p> <p><b>Data access</b></p> <p>The access data are openly available as part of this <i>figshare </i>metadata record in the file ‘AllCities.csv. A list of all cities included in the study, along with the sources of the data used for each city, is available in the file ‘SI for Urban Access Across the Globe-An International Comparison of Different Transport Modes.pdf’. Both of these files are also available in PDF format via the Supplementary Information of the related article.</p> <p> </p> <p><b>Corresponding author(s) for this study</b></p> <p>Hao Wu, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney, h.wu@sydney.edu.au.</p>