2021 New York City Yellow Taxi Trip Records

2021 Yellow Taxi Trip Data contains trip records submitted by Technology Service Providers for New York City yellow taxis. Each row represents a single trip, capturing details like pick-up and drop-off times, locations, distances, fares, and passenger counts.

Use Cases

• Analyze trip distances and itemized fares to model pricing and demand patterns
• Study pick-up and drop-off taxi zone locations to identify high-traffic corridors
• Examine rate types and payment types for payment behavior analysis
• Use driver-reported passenger counts to assess vehicle occupancy trends

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative City of New York organization
• Records include detailed trip components like itemized fares and zone locations
• Covers the full calendar year of 2021 for temporal analysis

Limitations

• Specific row count, column count, and file size are unknown
• Data may have reporting gaps or inconsistencies from multiple service providers
• Last update timestamp indicates metadata refresh, but core data is from 2021

Provenance

Source

City of New York

Collection Method

Generated from trip record submissions by yellow taxi Technology Service Providers

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Data reflects 2021 trips; metadata was last updated in December 2023.

Geography

New York City