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Research data supporting "Logistics sites in England and Wales: Location, size, type and loading bays"


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Authors

De Saxe, Christopher 
Ainalis, Daniel 
Cebon, David 

Description

Data on the location and size of logistics sites is essential for the accurate system-level modelling of transport and logistics operations. This is becoming increasingly important to support governments and industry transition to a net zero future which will feature new operating models and vehicle technologies, particularly for electric vehicle operations. In this work we present a dataset of logistics sites across England and Wales categorised into warehouses, retail sites, and factories. There are 47,683 rows of data in total, comprising 27,691 warehouse sites, 6,441 retail sites, and 13,551 factory sites. Each row contains the site’s category, location (latitude and longitude), size (in square meters), and modelled number of heavy goods vehicle loading bays. Raw data on non-domestic properties in England and Wales were sourced from the UK’s Valuation Agency Office (VOA) database. This dataset contains none of the original data from the VOA database. It is all processed data which uses the VOA database as an input.

Addresses were geocoded to determine the coordinates of each site, floor area was determined for each site via a web crawler script, and the type of site was derived using a keyword-based categorisation process. The size of the site gives an indication of the expected transport activity (i.e. volume of goods handled) and is a useful proxy to estimate the number of loading bays which, in turn, is a useful proxy for the number of electric heavy goods vehicle charging points the site may have to accommodate to support electric vehicle operations. Models relating the floor area to the number of loading bays were developed using satellite imagery of a sample of data from each category.

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Column descriptions: category - Keyword defining type of site. Values are ‘warehouse’, ‘factory’, ‘retail’ latitude - Latitude coordinate of the site longitude - Longitude coordinate of the site sqm - The floor area of the site as used for valuation purposes (in sq. m.) bays - The modelled number of loading bays at the site based on a sample of sites with a known number of loading bays.

Keywords

electrification, factories, freight, heavy goods vehicles, retail, transport, warehouses

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Innovate UK (10005577)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R035199/1)
This work was funded by InnovateUK under project 10005577 ‘UK Electric Road System’; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Grant EP/R035199/1 ‘Centre for Sustainable Road Freight 2018-2023’; and contributions from industrial partners in the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (https://www.csrf.ac.uk/steering-committee/).