Toronto and Chicago Ridehail Charts

Basic statistics and trends comparisons from ridehail open data

2026-07-31: This is a work in progress and will change significantly over the next while. Please send requests for new or changed charts, comments, corrections, and compliments to info@tomslee.net.

Go to the charts for each city from the menu at the top of the page.

Toronto

The charts are made from the City of Toronto open data about ridehail operations in the Greater Toronto Area. These data sets are:

• Private Transportation Companies - Summary and Trip Data. two data sets.
  • Summary Stats is a small file with per-day city-wide statistics (3000 rows) like trip counts and utilization averages, which is useful for describing overall trends.
  • Trips consists of 20 million rows, each describing trips between municipalities or, for Toronto itself, city wards (trip count, average distance, average fare etc).
• Private Transportation Companies - Vehicle Operating Data. Each of the 300-million plus rows is one vehicle active in one hour, with information about its time on the app (P1, P2, P3), fares, estimated distance travelled.
• For more details, see the readme file the City provides on each of the download pages.

Chicago

The charts are made from the City of Chicago open data about ridehail operations in the Chicago area. These data sets are:

• Transportation Network Providers - Trips and its predecessors, which includes a row for each trip. I only use the first Thursday of each month, to keep the data sizes manageable (by me).
• Transportation Network Providers - Drivers which provides a row for each driver active in a given month.