Chicago Taxi Trips from 2013 to 2023

2013 to 2023 taxi trips reported to the City of Chicago for regulatory purposes. The data includes anonymized identifiers and rounded timestamps to protect privacy while enabling aggregate analysis. The reporting process does not capture all trips, but the City believes most are included.

Use Cases

• Analyze trip patterns and demand using anonymized Taxi ID and rounded 15-minute timestamps.
• Study transportation trends over the 10-year period from 2013 to 2023.
• Perform aggregate spatial analysis with available geographic data, noting that Census Tracts are suppressed in some cases.

Strengths

• Covers a 10-year time range from 2013 to 2023.
• Includes privacy-preserving measures like consistent but anonymized Taxi IDs and rounded timestamps.
• Data is provided in multiple formats including RDF, JSON, CSV, and XML.

Limitations

• Not all taxi trips are reported due to the data reporting process.
• Geographic precision is limited as Census Tracts are suppressed in some cases.
• Temporal precision is reduced as times are rounded to the nearest 15 minutes.

Provenance

Source

City of Chicago, acting as a regulatory agency.

Collection Method

Trips reported to the City by taxi operators.

Time Range

2013 to 2023.

Freshness

The dataset was last updated in March 2026, but the data itself ends in 2023.

Geography

City of Chicago.