Chicago Taxi Trips Starting January 2024

Taxi trips reported to the City of Chicago from January 2024 onward. The City believes most trips are reported, though the process may not capture all. To protect privacy, identifiers are anonymized, Census Tracts are sometimes suppressed, and trip times are rounded to the nearest 15 minutes.

Use Cases

• Analyze taxi trip patterns based on anonymized taxi IDs and rounded timestamps.
• Study aggregate taxi demand based on reported trip data.
• Model urban mobility trends based on regulatory agency data.
• Assess taxi service coverage based on suppressed Census Tract data.

Strengths

• Data is reported to a regulatory agency (City of Chicago), suggesting a formal collection process.
• Privacy protections are implemented, including anonymized taxi IDs and rounded timestamps.
• Available in multiple file formats (XML, RDF, JSON, CSV).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Census Tract data is suppressed in some cases, limiting granular spatial analysis.

Provenance

Source

City of Chicago

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Starting January 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-15 03:00:36.418032; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Chicago