Fun with Data (CabSense Enters the Space)
Categories: Cab Industry | Tags: cab share, cab sharing, CabCorner, CabEasy, CabSense, fare splitting, nyc, ride share, ridesharing, Sense Networks
Our boy Fazal was the first to tell us about CabSense, a venture sponsored by NYC’s Taxi & Limousine Commission, which pledges to analyze “tens of millions of GPS data points from NYC taxis to help you find the best corner to catch a cab.”
Indeed, we were intrigued. Not only was the service somewhat related to our own objective (enhancing the taxi transportation experience), but it was also–as my man Lukas informed me–generating quite a bit of interest on the blogs… something that only serves to benefit our own enterprise’s upcoming market reception.
This iPhone application has all sorts of potential, and we’re currently assessing synergies. The product, which helps users identify where yellow cabs are most likely to be located at a given time or day around NYC by relying on a record of over 90 million taxi trips, could be of use to a web-and-mobile-based cab sharing platform, and vice versa.
The New York Times published an entire article on the application, from which the following is excerpted: “The data also present a grand urban portrait, the first detailed record of a fast-moving, yellow-hued transit network that offers a curbside view of how New Yorkers move around and where they do it.”
Poetic, no? And let’s look at the data in VIDEO–hour by hour, day by day…
pretty freaking nifty.
BONUS:
Check out the writeup in Venture Beat.
