Uber vs. Taxis: Event detection and differentiation in New York City
Grant McKenzie, Carlos Báez · International Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings · 2016
The recent rise of ride-sourcing services such as Uber have significantly changed the transportation landscape.This work takes a first step in di↵erentiating Uber and taxi transportation methods through events attended by their passengers.Using a sample of Uber and taxi pick-up times and locations in New York City, we show that events can be detected within each platform.Through identification of a select few of these events, this work takes a preliminary step in showing that there is a di↵erence in the types of events that are attended by Uber users and taxi passengers.