↖︎ Vishal Singh

NYC TLC high-volume FHV study

Uber and Lyft at the COVID emergency line

Daily pickup-zone records show how app-based ride demand broke around New York City's March 12, 2020 emergency declaration, then settled into a much lower late-April operating floor.

Source window Feb 1-Apr 30, 2020 62,863 firm-day-zone records
Daily rides fell fast, then kept falling

Borough footprint

Average rides per day before the emergency and at the late-April floor.

Trip economics

Daily trip economics for the selected firm view.

Pickup zones that lost the most daily rides

Ranked by the gap between the pre-emergency baseline and the late-April floor.

Rank Pickup zone Before Late Apr. Lost/day Change