Chicago Rideshare Trips from 2018 to 2022

All trips reported by Transportation Network Providers to the City of Chicago from November 2018 to December 2022. The data includes privacy-protected details such as rounded fares, tips, and trip times. It is provided by the City of Chicago as part of routine regulatory reporting.

Use Cases

• Analyze trip volume patterns using the reported trip timestamps rounded to 15-minute intervals.
• Model fare and tip distributions using the rounded fare (nearest $2.50) and tip (nearest $1.00) fields.
• Study geographic service coverage and suppression patterns using the Census Tract field where available.

Strengths

• Covers over 4 years of operational data from November 2018 to December 2022.
• Includes specific privacy-protection measures like rounding of fares, tips, and times.
• Provided directly by the City of Chicago as part of a regulatory ordinance.

Limitations

• Census Tract data is suppressed for some trips, limiting geographic analysis.
• Numerical fields like fare and tip are rounded, reducing precision for financial modeling.
• The dataset ends in 2022 and does not include more recent trips.

Provenance

Source

City of Chicago

Collection Method

Routine reporting required by ordinance from Transportation Network Providers.

Time Range

November 2018 to December 2022

Freshness

Data current through December 2022; metadata last updated March 2026.

Geography

City of Chicago