Dataset containing time series of taxi drop-offs in New York area during January 2015.

SPATIAL REFERENCE

• Each time series refers to a cell in a uniform grid partitioning of 250x250 cells over the greater area of New York City.

• Reference system: NAD83(NSRS2007) with coordinates in meters (EPSG:3627)

• Grid coverage area (lower left, upper right corner) : BOX(277200 36200, 327200 86200)

• Each cell is 200 meters wide and 200 meters long

• The grid covers the entire NYC including Staten Island and large part of Jersey City (outside NYC).

TEMPORAL REFERENCE

• For each month in 2015, count drop-offs per hour (0-23) and day of week (0-6) in each cell

• Essentially, for each month create a time series (with time granularity set to hour over 7 weekdays) of values (= number of drop-offs) per cell

Raw data source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/trip_record_data.shtml