2015 New York City Green Taxi Trip Records with Fares and Locations
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Description
Trip record submissions from green taxi Technology Service Providers for New York City in 2015. Each row represents a single taxi trip, with columns for pickup and dropoff times, locations, distances, itemized fares, and passenger counts. The data is hosted by data.cityofnewyork.us and was last updated in December 2023.
Use Cases
Predicting total fare amounts using Trip_distance, Fare_amount, and Extra with regression models.
Analyzing spatial demand patterns by mapping Pickup_latitude and Pickup_longitude to taxi zones.
Modeling passenger tipping behavior by correlating Tip_amount with Payment_type and Trip_distance.
Studying trip duration and time-of-day patterns using pickup_datetime and dropoff_datetime.
Strengths
Includes 21 detailed columns covering fares, locations, times, and passenger counts.
Data is structured with explicit datetime and geospatial coordinates for temporal and spatial analysis.
Hosted on an official city data portal (data.cityofnewyork.us), suggesting an authoritative source.
Limitations
Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Data may reflect temporal and geographic bias inherent to the 2015 New York City taxi market.
Provenance
Source
data.cityofnewyork.us
Collection Method
Generated from trip record submissions made by green taxi Technology Service Providers (TSPs).
Time Range
2015
Freshness
Last updated 2023-12-14 21:19:43; freshness should be verified.
Geography
New York City, based on taxi zone locations and platform origin.
License is unknown; terms of use should be verified before commercial application.