Most of the urban travelers are highly centered on traveling from end A to end B. But, the ride-hailing agency Uber currently enlarged a data-sharing project that offers San Franciscans new methods to study the transportation network of the city. Uber Movement is a portal which permits urban developers, planners, and members of the community to envision historical travel data on the platform of the company. The site aggregates data from nine cities including Cincinnati, Boston, and Washington, DC.
As per Allison Wylie, who works in Transfer & Mobility Policy at Uber, academics and researchers often lack comprehensive information to help residents understand local transfer systems. She said, “They typically rely on these five-year-old data sets that cost a lot of money. With Movement, our hope is to be providing this free and open data that they could be using.”
Uber utilizes real historical transportation data in its visualizations, but all data has been anonymized to preserve rider privacy. To assure optimal quality, information is ingested quarterly. Access is completely free, but users require an Uber account to log in to the portal.
Wylie said, “Getting Movement out there for everyone to be using for free is something that I think will be really helpful in these conversations as we continue to work with the city”.
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