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

Trip records from High Volume For-Hire Services (HVFHS) in New York City, mandated by Local Law 149 of 2018 effective February 1, 2019. Each row represents a single trip dispatched by a base operating under a single brand that dispatches over 10,000 trips daily. Data includes pickup and drop-off details linked to NYC Taxi Zones.

Use Cases

• Analyze trip volume and patterns by high volume license number to assess market activity for major operators.
• Model travel demand by correlating pickup and drop-off taxi zone location IDs with time of day.
• Study the operational impact of the HVFHS law by examining trip trends before and after its February 2019 effective date.

Strengths

• Data is generated from a legal mandate (Local Law 149 of 2018), ensuring systematic collection from regulated entities.
• Records are linked to the NYC Taxi Zones open dataset via taxi zone location ID fields, enabling spatial joins for geographic analysis.
• Covers major for-hire vehicle operators like Uber and Lyft, as indicated by dataset tags, providing insight into a significant segment of NYC transportation.

Limitations

• Specific data volume (row count), column details, and temporal coverage for 2022 are unknown, limiting assessment of scope and granularity.
• Data is provided in multiple formats (XML, CSV, RDF, JSON) which may require format-specific parsing and could lead to inconsistencies.

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

2022

Freshness

Last updated in December 2023, suggesting the 2022 dataset is a finalized annual snapshot.

Geography

New York City, with locations specified by NYC Taxi Zone IDs.