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Urban Cab Usage Data, Chicago 2024
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The collection offers detailed insights into taxi journeys taken within the city of Chicago throughout the year 2024. It records various trip characteristics, including temporal, spatial, and financial elements, making it valuable for transportation analysis, urban infrastructure planning, and deriving business intelligence.
Columns
- Trip ID: A unique identification number for tracking and analysis of each journey.
- Taxi ID: An identifier associated with the specific vehicle involved, enabling individual vehicle tracking.
- Trip Start Timestamp: The time when the trip commenced, rounded to the nearest 15 minutes.
- Trip End Timestamp: The time when the trip concluded, rounded to the nearest 15 minutes.
- Trip Seconds: The duration of the journey measured in seconds.
- Trip Miles: The distance covered by the journey in miles.
- Pickup Census Tract: The Census Tract where the trip began. This data point is sometimes withheld for privacy or if the location is outside Chicago.
- Dropoff Census Tract: The Census Tract where the trip ended. This may be blank for locations outside Chicago or withheld for privacy.
- Pickup Community Area: The Community Area of the starting location. This is blank for locations outside Chicago.
- Dropoff Community Area: The Community Area of the ending location. This is blank for locations outside Chicago.
- Fare: The base cost charged for the trip.
- Tips: The tip amount recorded for the trip; cash tips are generally not included in this record.
- Tolls: Any charges incurred for tolls during the journey.
- Extras: Additional charges applied to the trip.
- Trip Total: The final cost of the trip, calculated by summing the previous financial columns.
- Payment Type: The method used for payment, with major types including Credit Card and Cash.
- Company: The taxi operating company responsible for the trip.
- Pickup Centroid Latitude: The latitude coordinate for the centre of the pickup location, referencing either the census tract or community area.
- Pickup Centroid Longitude: The longitude coordinate for the centre of the pickup location.
- Pickup Centroid Location: The spatial point location of the pickup centroid.
- Dropoff Centroid Latitude: The latitude coordinate for the centre of the dropoff location.
- Dropoff Centroid Longitude: The longitude coordinate for the centre of the dropoff location.
- Dropoff Centroid Location: The spatial point location of the dropoff centroid.
Distribution
The raw data is provided in a CSV file format, which is approximately 357 MB in size. It documents 23 distinct data fields per record. The majority of the reported trip activity spans from January 2024 through the beginning of March 2024, with date time counts indicating daily usage patterns. Location fields identifying Census Tracts have a large proportion of missing entries, often exceeding 60%, due to privacy limitations or travel outside the Chicago geographic scope.
Usage
This data set is valuable for modelling travel demand, optimizing routes, and understanding market dynamics within the city's transport sector. Ideal applications include:
- Analyzing taxi usage patterns by time of day or location.
- Studying fare structures, tipping habits, and total revenue streams.
- Evaluating the spatial distribution of taxi pickups and drop-offs across Community Areas.
- Tracking the activity and market share of specific taxi operating companies, such as Flash Cab.
Coverage
The geographic scope focuses primarily on taxi trips within the boundaries of the city of Chicago. The period covered begins on 1 January 2024 and extends into March 2024. Certain spatial data points, specifically the Census Tracts and Centroid locations, are frequently missing, especially for journeys outside Chicago or when privacy rules dictate withholding the specific tract location. Financial coverage details the calculated fare, extras, tolls, and tips, noting that cash tips are generally not recorded.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
- Urban Planners: To assess transport needs and connectivity across different Community Areas.
- Governmental Transportation Authorities: For managing and regulating taxi services and infrastructure.
- Data Scientists and Researchers: To conduct predictive analysis on travel duration, distance, and pricing models.
- Taxi Businesses: To perform competitive analysis and optimize fleet deployment.
Dataset Name Suggestions
- Chicago City Taxi Journeys 2024
- Chicago Mobility Metrics: 2024 Taxi Trips
- Urban Cab Usage Data, Chicago 2024
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Original Data Source: Urban Cab Usage Data, Chicago 2024
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