Chicago Rideshare Trips Starting January 2025

All trips reported by Transportation Network Providers to the City of Chicago starting in January 2025. Data includes privacy-protected details such as census tracts, trip times, fares, and tips. The dataset is updated with routine reporting as required by ordinance.

Use Cases

• Analyze trip patterns and demand using reported trip times rounded to the nearest 15 minutes.
• Study fare and tipping behavior with fares rounded to the nearest $2.50 and tips to the nearest $1.00.
• Examine geographic service coverage and potential gaps using census tract data, noting some tracts are suppressed.
• Model transportation demand by integrating temporal data from trip times with geographic data from census tracts.

Strengths

• Data collection is mandated by a City of Chicago ordinance, ensuring consistent reporting from rideshare companies.
• Privacy protections are explicitly documented, including suppression of some census tracts and rounding of times, fares, and tips.
• The dataset provides a continuous record of trips starting from January 2025, offering a temporal baseline for analysis.

Limitations

• Data granularity is reduced due to rounding of times (to 15 minutes), fares (to $2.50), and tips (to $1.00).
• Geographic analysis may be incomplete as census tracts are suppressed in some cases for privacy.
• The specific number of rows, columns, and total data size is unknown from the provided input.

Provenance

Source

City of Chicago

Collection Method

Routine reporting by Transportation Network Providers (rideshare companies) as required by city ordinance.

Time Range

January 2025 onward

Freshness

Data was last updated on March 1, 2026, and includes trips from January 2025 onward.

Geography

City of Chicago, Illinois, USA