Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips
by ghaff on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:28AM
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A lot of interesting data here. Just eyeballing it, it appears as if Uber (plus green taxis) have significantly grown the number of taxi-like rides in Brooklyn and Queens relative to yellow taxis alone. However, in addition to Uber and green taxis being a small part of the Manhattan mix, it looks as if the number of rides they take may have come largely at the expense of yellow taxis.
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AFAIK, this data does not include livery (black) car trips. Based on personal experience, I think it's more likely that Uber trips have largely come at the expense of black car trips, which prior to the introduction of ridesharing companies and green cabs were the go-to method for getting a car ride in the outer boroughs. A lot of the car service companies have been rolling out app-based systems, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/nyregion/neighborhood-car-...
Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips
by lil_tee on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:42PM
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My dataset does not include livery cabs
FiveThirtyEight has some additional for-hire vehicle data in their GitHub which they obtained via FOIL request: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/uber-tlc-foil-response/tr...
Intuitively, I would think livery cabs have lost significant market share to Uber, but I don't actually know