New York Citi Bike Trip Duration for the First Six Months of 2016

4.5 million anonymized Citi Bike trips from the first six months of 2016, covering trips between approximately 500 stations primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The dataset was created by a third party using publicly available data from NYC Bike Share, LLC and Jersey City Bike Share, LLC. It was structured to follow the nomenclature of a New York City taxi trip dataset for comparison.

Use Cases

• Predicting bike trip duration based on start/end stations and time of day.
• Analyzing urban mobility patterns and station usage across New York City.
• Comparing travel times and patterns between bike-sharing and taxi services.

Strengths

• Contains 4.5 million trip records, providing a substantial sample size.
• Covers a specific, defined time range of six months in 2016.
• Includes data from approximately 500 stations, offering geographic granularity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Citi Bike network, which is concentrated in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

NYC Bike Share, LLC and Jersey City Bike Share, LLC (Citi Bike).

Collection Method

Publicly available trip data, anonymized and rearranged by a third party.

Time Range

First six months of 2016.

Geography

New York City, primarily Manhattan and Brooklyn.