UK Council Vehicle Fuel Consumption by Year and Fuel Type
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Description
Data from the Government Digital Service, last updated on 2020-10-07, shows the fuel consumption of council fleet vehicles. The dataset includes metrics like fuel used in litres, total mileage, and miles per gallon, broken down by year and fuel type. Guidance notes that data is not available for the 2017/18 period due to software issues.
Use Cases
Benchmarking fuel efficiency across vehicle types based on the reported MPG metric.
Analyzing trends in diesel versus gas oil usage over time based on the fuel type column.
Estimating operational costs and carbon footprint based on fuel consumption in litres and total mileage.
Identifying vehicles with high fuel consumption for potential fleet optimization based on the per-vehicle records.
Strengths
Includes specific operational metrics like Miles Per Gallon (MPG) and fuel used in litres.
Provides clear data dictionary explaining column semantics such as 'Type' for fuel classification.
Published under the Open Government Licence, allowing for reuse.
Limitations
Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data is missing for the 2017/18 period, creating a temporal gap in the time series.
Last updated 2020-10-07 10:41:15.723000; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
Source
Government Digital Service
Collection Method
Likely collected from council fleet management and fuel system reporting.
Time Range
Covers multiple years, with a noted gap for 2017/18.
Freshness
Last updated 2020-10 07 10:41:15.723000
Geography
Likely United Kingdom, inferred from the platform (eu_open_data) and organization.
License is http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/open-government-licence.