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

Trip records from High Volume For-Hire Vehicle services in New York City, mandated by Local Law 149 of 2018 effective February 1, 2019. Each row represents a single trip dispatched by a high-volume base, with fields for pickup and drop-off details linked to NYC taxi zones. The data is provided by the City of New York.

Use Cases

• Analyze trip volume and patterns using high volume license number and pickup/drop-off date/time fields.
• Map trip origins and destinations by joining pickup and drop-off taxi zone location IDs with the NYC Taxi Zones dataset.
• Study the operational impact of the HVFHS law by examining trip data from bases dispatching over 10,000 trips daily.

Strengths

• Data is mandated by New York City Local Law 149 of 2018, ensuring a consistent reporting framework.
• Records are linked to the NYC Taxi Zones open dataset via taxi zone location ID fields for spatial analysis.
• Covers high-volume services defined as dispatching over 10,000 trips per day under a single brand.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and data size are unknown, limiting preliminary assessment of scale.
• Data freshness is unclear as the last platform update does not specify the actual temporal coverage of the records.
• License is listed as 'notspecified', which may create ambiguity for commercial or redistribution use.

Provenance

Source

City of New York

Collection Method

Generated from trip record submissions made by High Volume For-Hire Vehicle (FHV) bases as required by law.

Time Range

Data collection began after Local Law 149 took effect on February 1, 2019; specific coverage period is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated on the platform: 2024-07-20.

Geography

New York City