Yellow Cab Trip Estimator

Taxi, Over and Lyft use in New York City

New York City Taxis & Limousine Commission releases executive summaries containing aggregated statistical information on the use of taxis, Uber and Lyft. This is in additon to the travel-level information I have previously written about; although the executive summaries contain much less detail, they are more often actualized, giving a more up-to-date insight into the condition of the murderous New York taxis store.

I' ve upgraded the nyc-taxi-data GitHub Repository with codes to retrieve and handle the synopsis report, and you can come back to this page for upgrades in the future: the graphics on this page will be upgraded every months as the TLC publishes more information. Summarized figures include the number of journeys with yellow cabs and rental cars:

The chart continues to be updated as the TLC publishes extra information, but at the point when I posted this in April 2016, the latest information shows that yellow cabs made 60,000 fewer journeys per night in January 2016 versus a year before, while over 70,000 made more journeys per night over the same period.

Even though Uber figures do not start until 2015, it is all the clearer that yellow cabs will lose ground when we move to 2010. Summaries shall also contain the overall number of rolling stock deployed by each service: This chart will also be updated in the near term as more information becomes available, but since January 2016 there have been slightly more than 13,000 yellow cabs in New York, a figure tightly controlled by the levy system.

Over 10,000 cars delivered per week in early 2015 have increased to over 25,000 in January 2016, with Lyft accounting for a further 5,000. The Uber/Lyft figures, however, may not be as dramatically as it seems: The TLC figures do not indicate how many working Uber/Lyft cars work per day per weeks, but only the overall number of journeys per week and the overall number of cars that have made at least one journey.

The occupancy rate of Yellow Taxis is much higher: The TLC statistic reports that the mean locket is 29 workingdays per months, 14 workinghrs per days (note that several riders can split a locket). There is controversy over whether the flow of Uber, Lyft and other rental cars has aggravated New York's traffic jam problem.

I' ll keep out of this mess for now, but at least the populist story is that the Uber Municipality survey didn't hold responsible for the elevated constipation in Manhattan. Looking at the cab dates at trip levels would be interesting to see if taxis from point A to point A have slowed down in different parts of the town over the years.

Even if they did, it would be hard, if not impossible, for them to attribute it to rental cars - or other individual factors - that only use the cab information at trip-levels. While Lyft is probably the best known over rival, there are others. Via, Juno and Gett are among the newer rideshare operators operating in New York, and they also submit information to the TLC.

Updated 26.04.16: Apparently there was a bug between Lyft and the TLC in January 2016, which has now been fixed. At the time of writing, the lyft diagram was like this. On the basis of the updated figures, it does not appear that the use of Lyft decreased in early 2016.

Sales figures are not published in public, but we can compile various pieces of information to make a very approximate estimation of Ubers New York sales in 2015: This gives us (36. 3 * $25 * 0. 22) = $200 million turnover for Uber in NYC in 2015.

At the same time, Uber could demand higher fees and who knows how price increases could develop. Doubtful that we will see too many points of information on revenues, but perhaps there will be enough to keep the play "rough estimate" going. It' gonna be interesting to see what happens in 2016. As many New Yorkers, I'm eager to see whether Uber will keep gaining shares, whether yellow cabs will do something to ease their sores, and whether Lyft - or other emergingcomers - can play their way into the big player group.