Salvador Urban Network Transportation (SUNT): A Landmark Spatiotemporal Dataset for Public Transportation

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2025

Authors

Ferreira, MV (Author) Other; Souza, M (Author) Other; Rios, TN (Author) Other; Fernandes, IFC (Author) Other; Nery, J (Author) Other; João Gama (Author) FCUP; Bifet, A (Author) Other; Rios, RA (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Scientific Data

Vol. 765

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Authenticus ID: P-019-SPR

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-05674-6

Abstract (EN): Efficient public transportation management is essential for the development of large urban centers, providing several benefits such as comprehensive coverage of population mobility, reduction of transport costs, better control of traffic congestion, and significant reduction of environmental impact limiting gas emissions and pollution. Realizing these benefits requires a deeply understanding the population and transit patterns and the adoption of approaches to model multiple relations and characteristics efficiently. This work addresses these challenges by providing a novel dataset that includes various public transportation components from three different systems: regular buses, subway, and BRT (Bus Rapid Transit). Our dataset comprises daily information from about 700,000 passengers in Salvador, one of Brazil's largest cities, and local public transportation data with approximately 2,000 vehicles operating across nearly 400 lines, connecting almost 3,000 stops and stations. With data collected from March 2024 to March 2025 at a frequency lower than one minute, SUNT stands as one of the largest, most comprehensive, and openly available urban datasets in the literature.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 19