High Volume For-Hire Vehicle Trip Records in New York City

Trip records from High Volume For-Hire Services (HVFHS) in New York City, mandated by Local Law 149 of 2018. Each row represents a single trip dispatched by a base operating over 10,000 trips daily under a single brand. Records include pickup and drop-off times and location IDs corresponding to NYC Taxi Zones.

Use Cases

• Analyze trip volume patterns using pickup and drop-off date/time fields to understand urban mobility demand.
• Map trip origins and destinations by joining pickup and drop-off taxi zone location IDs with the NYC Taxi Zones open dataset.
• Study the operational footprint of high-volume license numbers to assess market concentration among different brands.
• Investigate temporal trends in for-hire vehicle activity following the February 2019 implementation of HVFHS regulations.

Strengths

• Data is generated from a legal mandate (Local Law 149 of 2018), ensuring systematic collection from regulated entities.
• Records are linked to the standardized NYC Taxi Zones geography, enabling spatial analysis.
• Covers trips from high-volume bases, each dispatching over 10,000 trips per day in New York City.

Limitations

• Specific data volume (row count), column details, and sample data are unavailable for assessing scale and structure.
• The 'notspecified' license status creates ambiguity for commercial or redistribution use cases.
• Data may have a reporting lag, as the last platform update was in December 2023 for 2021 trip records.

Provenance

Source

City of New York, from trip record submissions by High Volume For-Hire Vehicle (FHV) bases.

Collection Method

Generated from mandatory trip record submissions as required by Local Law 149 of 2018.

Time Range

2021 trip records.

Freshness

Last updated on the platform: 2023-12-22. Covers trips from 2021.

Geography

New York City, USA.