2020 New York City Yellow Taxi Trip Records

New York City yellow taxi trip data for 2020, containing records of individual rides. The dataset includes fields for pick-up and drop-off times and locations, trip distances, fares, rate types, payment types, and passenger counts. It is provided by the City of New York and was last updated in December 2023.

Use Cases

• Analyze fare amounts and payment types to study revenue patterns and cashless adoption.
• Model trip distances using pick-up and drop-off taxi zone locations for route optimization.
• Examine driver-reported passenger counts against trip durations to assess occupancy efficiency.
• Study temporal patterns in pick-up and drop-off dates/times across different rate types.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative City of New York organization.
• Records include detailed itemized fare breakdowns and precise location data via taxi zones.
• The dataset was updated in December 2023, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• The total number of rows and specific column definitions are unknown, limiting initial assessment.
• Data is limited to a single year (2020), which may not reflect post-pandemic travel patterns.
• The license is listed as 'notspecified', creating potential ambiguity for commercial use.

Provenance

Source

City of New York

Collection Method

Generated from trip record submissions made by yellow taxi Technology Service Providers (TSPs).

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated on 2023-12-16.

Geography

New York City, USA