Chicago Taxi Trips from 2024 with Geospatial Coordinates

Taxi trip records reported to the City of Chicago starting in January 2024. The data includes timestamps, fares, distances, and geospatial coordinates for pickup and dropoff locations. Data is provided by the City of Chicago as a regulatory agency, with privacy protections applied to identifiers and locations.

Use Cases

• Predicting trip duration using Trip Miles, Trip Seconds, and Pickup Community Area.
• Analyzing fare determinants using Trip Total, Fare, Extras, Tolls, and Tips.
• Mapping trip density and flow using Pickup Centroid Latitude, Pickup Centroid Longitude, Dropoff Centroid Latitude, and Dropoff Centroid Longitude.
• Modeling payment type preference by time of day using Payment Type and Trip Start Timestamp.

Strengths

• Data includes precise geospatial coordinates (latitude/longitude) for trip endpoints.
• Contains multiple fare components (Trip Total, Fare, Tips, Tolls, Extras) for economic analysis.
• Covers trips from January 2024 onward, providing recent temporal coverage.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description notes that not all trips are reported, though the City believes most are.
• Census Tract data is suppressed in some cases, and timestamps are rounded to the nearest 15 minutes for privacy.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org

Collection Method

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

Time Range

2024 onward

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 19:52:40.

Geography

City of Chicago, Illinois, USA