Cycling Open Data

To inform decision making and policies around active travel (cycling, wheeling and walking), it’s essential to have access to clear, reliable and recent data from across the country.

The Cycling Open Data portal seeks to address this by providing the most comprehensive collection of cycling data of its kind in Scotland.

It hosts clear, free to access, up-to-date data from a wide range of sources.

The types of data available includes:

• Cycling statistics from the Scottish Household Survey, Sustrans, Living Streets Scotland and Transport Scotland.
• Real time automatic cycle counter data from Cycling Scotland’s National Monitoring Framework, local authorities, Sustrans, and other active travel organisations.
• Traffic survey data from across Scotland.
• Cycling Scotland programme data including: Bikeability Scotland, the Big Count, YouGov Surveys, and the Cycling Friendly awards.

The portal can support research, policy and decision making at all levels by providing clear data to make evidence-based choices. This can help justify investment in cycling – promoting the development of an active travel friendly country.

Following the principles of openness and partnership working, users can add their own cycling data by simply creating an account. In this way, the portal will become even more comprehensive over time.

The portal has recently been updated, making the data even easier to find, understand, download and re-publish.

Before accessing the portal, please watch this short video demonstrating how to access the data.

You can learn more about the portal on the Frequently Asked Questions page. If you have a specific query, you can access the Knowledge Base or contact Cycling Scotland’s Monitoring Officer directly at monitoring@cycling.scot.