Chicago Taxi Trips from 2013 to 2023 with Fare and Location Data

Taxi trips from 2013 to 2023 reported to the City of Chicago for regulatory purposes. The data includes fare, tolls, tips, trip duration, and anonymized pickup/dropoff locations, with times rounded to the nearest 15 minutes for privacy. It is provided by data.cityofchicago.org via the Socrata platform.

Use Cases

• Forecast trip demand using Trip Start Timestamp and Pickup Community Area.
• Analyze fare determinants using Trip Miles, Trip Seconds, Extras, and Tolls.
• Map common routes and trip density using Pickup Centroid Latitude, Pickup Centroid Longitude, Dropoff Centroid Latitude, and Dropoff Centroid Longitude.
• Model driver earnings and payment preferences using Trip Total, Tips, and Payment Type.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range from 2013 to 2023.
• Includes 24 columns with detailed trip components like fare, tips, tolls, and geospatial centroids.
• Data is structured for aggregate analysis with privacy protections like rounded timestamps and consistent anonymized Taxi IDs.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The City notes that not all trips are reported, though most are believed to be included.
• Census Tract data is suppressed in some cases, limiting granular geographic analysis.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org

Collection Method

Trips reported to the City of Chicago in its role as a regulatory agency.

Time Range

2013-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 18:55:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Chicago, Illinois, USA