NTEM Trip Ends - Car availability (PA)
Back to Resource HubWhat is it?
A dataset showing where trips start and end based on household car availability. It uses NTEM production and attraction data to show how many trips are generated and drawn to each area, grouped by levels of access to a car.
How is it useful?
Use it to see how car access shapes travel demand. It helps you assess likely mode choice, test assumptions in transport models, and build more realistic forecasts. By comparing areas with different levels of car ownership, you can better target interventions and support evidence-based planning. As a national dataset, it is best used at a strategic level.
Dataset code
02303
Licence
Open Government Licence 3.0
Limitations
NTEM works well as a national average model but this all realises its limitations. Specfically, NTEM manages MSOA zones via area-types which can mask subtle, local changes in land use. It is also known to under-estimate rail trip counts nationally while over-estimating car trips in the North. TfN is currently working on releasing Northern-Specific national trip ends to address some of these issues
Attributions
Department for Transport. (2013). National Trip End Model (NTEM) Version 8 has been used on Open Government License. (https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/11bc7aaf-ddf6-4133-a91d-84e6f20a663e/national-trip-end-model-ntem).