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Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips by 1986 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:01PM (#10583575)
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 (#10583811)
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