New York City For-Hire Vehicle Trip Records, 2015-2022

NYC FHV (Uber/Lyft) Trip Data Simple contains a simplified version of every For-Hire Vehicle trip record in New York City. The dataset covers trips from 2015 through 2022. The original data source and specific author are unknown.

Use Cases

• Modeling urban mobility demand based on trip volume over time
• Analyzing the growth and temporal patterns of the for-hire vehicle industry
• Studying the spatial distribution of ride-hailing services within New York City

Strengths

• Covers a significant 8-year time span from 2015 to 2022
• Focuses on a major metropolitan area, New York City
• Includes data for all For-Hire Vehicle trips, likely providing broad coverage

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

New York City (likely from a city agency, but specific source not stated)

Collection Method

Likely collected from regulatory or operational records of For-Hire Vehicle companies.

Time Range

2015-2022

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Geography

New York City